Outline

Introduction

What is Android? Android: How it came to be Android Features

Android Architecture Anatomy of an Android Application Hello Android Life Cycle of an Android Application Future of Android

ABSTRACT
DESIGN and implementation of a music player based on Android in this paper. According to the feature of mobile phone, the music player makes full use of screen to show more information. In addition to the basic functions of playback, the music player can also make music rating and display the previous and next music name of current music. The design of the player also has some significance for developing other applications on Android.

What is Android?
ANDROID

Open, free software platform for mobile devices with a complete software stack
Operating system Middleware Key mobile applications

Based on Linux operating system Made available as open source via the Apache v2 license

Open
Android is...

Allows access to core mobile device functionality through standard API calls

Example

Application can call core functionality such as making calls, sending text messages, using camera... Developers can create richer and more cohesive experiences for users

Since it's open source, it can be liberally extended as new technologies emerge

All Applications are Equal

In Android...

Android does not differentiate between the phone's basic and third party applications

All applications have equal access to the phone's capabilities Example:

The dialer and home screen can be replaced

Breaking down boundaries

Android is...

Information from the web can be combined with data on the phone

Example:

Contacts, calendar or geographic location

Fast and Easy Development

Android allows...

SDK (Software development kit) includes

True device emulator and advanced debugging tools Useful libraries and tools

Example

Obtain location of the device Allow devices to communicate with one another

Android Features

Application framework

enable reuse and replacement of components

Dalvik virtual machine

optimized for mobile devices

Integrated browser

based on the open source WebKit engine

Optimized graphics

powered by a custom 2D graphics library 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)

Android Features

SQLite

For structured data storage

Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats

MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF

GSM Telephony (hardware dependent) Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent) Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware
dependent)

Android Features

Rich development environment

which includes

device emulator tools for debugging memory and performance profiling a plugin for the Eclipse IDE

Android Architecture

Major components of the Android OS

Android Runtime
Android Architecture

Main Component: Dalvik Virtual Machine

Optimized for running in an embedded environment (limited memory, CPU,battery) Runs .dex files (bytecodes)

.class .jar files

Converted at build time Optimized! More efficient!

Android Runtime
Android Architecture

Core Library

Contains all the collection classes, utilities, IO, etc.

Applications
Android Architecture

Core Applications

Email client SMS program Calendar Maps Browser Contacts etc

All applications are written using the Java Programming Language

Anatomy of an Android Application

Application Building Blocks

Activity Intent Receiver Service Content Provider

Activity
Activity

Anatomy of an Android Application

UI typically corresponding to one screen Move through screens by starting other activities Example
Email application has 3 major activity
List your mail Chosen individual mail message Compose screen

Intent Receiver
Anatomy of an Android Application

Intent Receiver
Responds to notifications or status changes Can wake up your process Doesn't run unless triggered by an external event Example
Only run an application when connected to the network

Service
Service

Anatomy of an Android Application

Faceless task that runs in the background Example

Music player
Keeps playing even though you are navigating to other parts

Content Provider
Anatomy of an Android Application

Content Provider
Enables applications to share data Example
Any application can access the contacts database

Hello Android
A Peek at an Android App

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Hello Android
A Peek at an Android App

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Application Lifecycle

Every application runs its own process

Benefits: security, protected memory, applications using CPU intensively won't block other activities

Processes are started and stopped as needed to run an application's components Processes may be killed to reclaim resources
It's my problem to launch/ kill processes, manage resources, saving states, etc.

Interesting APIs

Java Code + XML and Other Resources + Manifest File = Android App

IMPLEMENTATION OF MUSIC PLAYER

A. SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
The music player adopted front-back end architecture. The front-end consists of player interface and music list and was achieved by activity for interacting with user. The back-end is the implementation of playback which based on service. The communications between frontend and back-end are via intent.

ARCHITECTURE OF MUSIC PLAYER

FRONT END
PLAYER INTERFACE (ACTIVITY)

BACK END
PLAYBACK (SERVICE)
back end

MUSIC LIST (ACTIVITY)

SOFTWARE MODULES
The music player consists of some modules which are tab, player interface, playback, music list, list, file, mp3 information, constant value and settings.

TAB

BLOCK DIAGRAM OF MUSIC PLAYER

MUSIC LIST

PLAYER INTERFACE

PLAYBACK

LIST

CONSTANT VALUE

FILE SETTINGS Mp3 information

1.TAB MODULE
The tab module is the first module the player runs when the player is opened, which is used to build two tabs which are player and music list. The player associated with player interface and the music list associated with music list, which not only make full use of screen of mobile phone, but also switch between player interface and music list easily.

2.PLAYER INTERFACE MODULE

The player interface module provides the player interface for user, and the control operations and display information of player are via it. The player interface consists of current music name, status, current/total time, progress bar, previous, play, pause, stop, next, play mode, music rating, previous and next music name.

3.MUSIC LIST MODULE

The music list module is used to build music list by invoking list module. The music list is clickable, and the music will play when you click the music name in the list. The information of the music you clicked is encapsulated in intent and sent to playback module to play the music.

4.PLAYBACK MODULE
The playback module is used to achieve playback and related operations, such as play, pause, stop, display the current, previous and next music name and update the progress bar. The playback module is the core module which based on service. In this module, we achieved that how to translate commands which come from the player interface module and music list module into operations and the information which is encapsulated in intent is sent through broadcast. The playback module invokes the constant value module to match the commands, and invokes the settings module to get and save the settings information.

THE WORKFLOW OF MUSIC RATING

MUSIC RATING CHANGED

CLICK BY USER GET THE CURRENT MUSIC NAME

Save the music name and the related music rating value

DISPLAY THE MUSIC RATING VALUE

END

WORKFLOW OF UPDATING TIME

START Create the thread of updating time Define and initialize variable Player is stop Get the current time and total time Translate the time Encapsulate time into intent Send intent via broadcast

5) CONSTANT VALUE MODULE

The constant value module holds a variety of constants defined by ourselves, which represent the various commands and are used to send and receive the commands.

6) SETTINGS MODULE
Settings module is used to save and get a variety of setting values by using Shared Preferences . Shared Preferences, which provided by Android, is a mechanism for data access, and data store in the XML file as key-value pairs.

7) LIST MODULE
The list module encapsulates the Simple Adapter class, and that could be directly invoked by music list module to build music list.

8) FILE MODULE
The file module searches the music files in the SD card and saves the information which can be used to build the music list.

9) MP3 INFORMATION MODULE

The MP3 information module provides some operations about attributes of Mp3.

CONCLUSION
Android is a multi-process system, in which each application (and parts of the system) runs in its own process. The ability for anyone to customize the Google Android platform

The consumer will benefit from having a wide range of mobile applications to choose from since the monopoly will be broken by Google Android

Men will be able to customize a mobile phones using Google Android platform like never before