Mobile Application Development - 1 (option B)

Concepts of Android and Setting up Android Environment

5 topics

• Introduction to Android: history, concepts and features of Android; concepts of API framework
• Android Architecture (Software Stack): kernel Native Libraries, Native Libraries and Android Runtime (Dalvik VM), Application Framework, Application
• Dalvik Virtual Machine (DVM)
• Android Emulator: setting up JDK and Android Studio, Android SDK manager
• Creating Android Virtual Device (AVD)

Creating basic App

3 topics

• Creating first App: Activity, Layout
• Basic App using Android Studio: create new android project, write message and run, understanding different components
• Understanding AndroidManifest.xml, R.java

XML (Extensible Markup Language)

5 topics

• Characteristic and use of XML
• XML syntax (Declaration, Tags, elements)
• Root element, case sensitivity
• XML document: Document Prolog Section, Document element section
• XML declaration and rules of declaration

Android Widgets (UI)

5 topics

• Hiding Title bar
• Screen Orientation (Portrait, Landscape)
• Form Widget Palette: placing text fields and Button, Button onClick event
• Displaying Notification: Toast Class, displaying message on Toast
• ToggleButton: attributes (textOff, textOn), event methods (getTextOff(), getTextOn(), setChecked())

Other Android Widgets (UI)

4 topics

• CheckBox: event methods (isChecked(), setChecked()), default and custom Checkbox
• RadioButton: event methods of RadioButton, dynamic and custom RadioButton
• Spinner, AlertDialog
• AutoCompleteTextView, TextWatcher to EditText

Previous-year question papers

Published by VNSGU. These open on the university’s own site.

• November 2025MJ3-305-02-Mobile Application Development - I (TH)
• March 2025MAJOR-3-MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT - I (TH)

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