SARVAJANIK UNIVERSITY

Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology

Master of Computer Applications

MCA Semester III

Subject Name: Android Programming Subject Code: MTCA13301

Type of course: Professional Core Course

Prerequisite: Knowledge of the Core Java Programming, Database concepts

Rationale: After studying this course, students will be able to understand the basic
concepts of Android Mobile Operating System and the importance of
various coding techniques. After successful completion students will be
able to create mobile apps.

Teaching and Examination Scheme:

TEACHING SCHEME Theory Marks Practical Marks Total

L T P C TEE CA1 CA2 TEP CA3
2 0 4 4 60 25 15 60 40 200

CA1: Continuous Assessment (assignments/projects/open book tests/closed book tests CA2:

Sincerity in attending classes/class tests/ timely submissions of assignments/self-learning
attitude/solving advanced problems TEE: Term End Examination TEP: Term End Practical Exam
(Performance and viva on practical skills learned in course) CA3: Regular submission of Lab
work/Quality of work submitted/Active participation in lab sessions/viva on practical skills learned
in course

Content:

Sr. Teaching Module

Topics
No. Hrs. Weightage
1. Introduction to ANDROID:
ANDROID SDK Features, Introduction to Development Features,
ANDROID development tools.

Basics of ANDROID:
Basics of an ANDROID application, introduction to manifest,
application life cycle, ANDROID activities.

Fundamentals of Kotlin for Beginner: 3 10%

Variable Declaration: Type Inference, Null Safety
Conditionals
Functions: Simplifying function declaration, Anonymous
functions, High-order functions
Classes: Properties, Class functions and encapsulation-
Interoperability

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2. Building User Interfaces

Introduction to layouts, introduction to fragments, introduction to
adapters. Introduction to ViewBinding and DataBinding.
5 17%
Intents and Broadcast Receivers
Introduction to intents and broadcast receivers.
3. Files, Saving State
Working with the File System- Access Files from SD card and
introduction to Scoped Storage.

Database 8 26%
Introduction to SQLite Databases, Introduction to Room DB

Content Providers
Native ANDROID Content Providers
4. Working in background
Introducing Work Manager
5 17%
Enhancing user experience
Introduction of Action Bar, Menus and Dialogs, Drawables and
Gradients, Custom Animations.
5. Audio, Video and Using the Camera
Playing Audio, Using Camera to take pictures, introducing
Telephony API, introducing SMS and MMS
4 14%
Monetizing, promoting and distributing the applications
Signing and publishing applications, distributing applications,
introduction to monetizing applications.
6. Web Services (Only for implementation in lab)
Introduction to Web services. How to call web services in Android, 5 16%
Android JSON web services.

Suggested Specification table with Marks (Theory/Practical):

% Distribution of Marks
R Level U Level A Level N Level E Level C Level
20 20 10 15 15 20

Legends: R: Remembrance, U: Understanding; A: Application, N: Analyze, E: Evaluate C: Create

and above Levels (Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy)

Note: This specification table shall be treated as a general guideline for students and teachers. The
actual distribution of marks in the question paper may vary slightly from above table.

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Reference Text Books:

Sr. Publisher and Year of Publication
Title of book /article Author(s)
No. details like ISBN publication Edition

1 Head First Android Dawn O'Reilly Media, 2021 3rd

Development Griffiths, Inc.
David Griffiths
2 Android Programming John Horton Packt Publishing 2019 1st
with Kotlin for Beginners

Course Outcome:

Sr. No. CO Statement Marks %

After learning this subject, students will be able to weightage
CO-1 Understand the concept of open source Android Mobile Application 10
using Kotlin development and Android architecture framework.
CO-2 Ability to create Android UI Layout, Broadcast receiver. 17

CO-3 Ability to create Files, Scoped Storage, Database and Content Providers. 26

CO-4 Ability to perform event driven programs and applications using Work 17
Manager, Action Bar, Menus, Dialogs, Drawables and Animation.
CO-5 Understand the stepwise procedure to upload an Android app on Google 14
Play store. Ability to perform event driven program on playing audio,
accessing camera, telephony, SMS.
CO-6 Ability to create Web service based Android Mobile Application using 16
JSON based web services.

Mapping with POs:

PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO P PO P PS PS PS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 O1 11 O1 O1 O2 O3
0 2

CO-1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

CO-2 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

CO-3 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

CO-4 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

CO-5 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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CO-6 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Rationale*: Explaining why it is matching this particular program outcome

LIST OF PRACTICALS:

1. Create a New Application with Activity, design the layout in XML

res\layout\activity_main.xml, also design the String References and Values
res\values\string.xml and run the application.
2. Create an application that will display “Have a GOOD Day” in the middle of the
screen in the Green color with Yellow background.
3. Create an application that designs a layout with an Edittext and button named Submit.
The user should enter the text in the text box. When the submit button is clicked then
the text in the text box should be displayed in the toast.
4. Create an application with the login module, which will check username and password. On
successful login, go to the next screen. And on failing login, alert users using Toast. Also
pass username to next screen.
5. Create an application to demonstrate Android Activity Lifecycle.
6. Create an application to demonstrate View Binding and Data Binding.
7. Write an android program to call specific entered numbers by user in the Edit Text.
8. Create an application that will display a list of android versions (eg: cupcake, donut, eclair,
froyo and so on) in one fragment and on selecting one android version, a second fragment
should be displayed with the selected android version and its image.
9. Understanding widgets: write an android program to create Registration Activity with
following detail:
a) User Name
b) Address
c) Date of Birth
d) Gender
e) Hobbies
f) Submit Button. On the Click of submit button the Data should be displayed on Next
Activity.
10. Understand resource folder & Adapter:
a) Create two spinners with strings taken from a resource folder (res >> value folder)
and TextView.
b) First Spinner should have a font name and Second Spinner should have font size.
c) On changing spinner value, the font name and font size of text view value should
change accordingly.
11. Write an application to demonstrate WorkManager.
12. Create an android application with an option menu with following options:
a) Read a File (Will read file from SD card)
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b) Write into File (Will write the content to file stored in SD card).
13. Create an application that will accept Employee details like empid, empname, emp
department, emp address, emp salary and a button name submit. When a user clicks on
submit button data should be added to the database. Design a layout which displays current
record and previously added record in a tabular manner.
14. Create an application to demonstrate Room Database.
15. Create an application to practically implement the native content providers.
16. Create an application to implement Action bar.
17. Write an application to demonstrate drawable, gradient and custom animation in android.
18. Create an android application to make a call on a specified number.
19. Write a code snippet to send SMS on a specified number.
20. Write code to read SMS.
21. Create an application to play audio files from the SD card.
22. Create an application to click a picture using native camera.
23. Create an application to demonstrate calling of web service in android.

Reference Text Books:

Publisher and
Sr. Year of Publication
Title of book /article Author(s) details like
No. publication Edition
ISBN

1 Head First Android Dawn Griffiths, O'Reilly Media, 2021 3rd

Development David Griffiths Inc.

2 Android Programming John Horton Packt Publishing 2019 1st

with Kotlin for
Beginners

List of Open Source/learning website:

https://developer.android.com/courses/android-basics-kotlin/course
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/a-complete-guide-to-learn-kotlin-for-android-app-development/
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/home.html

List of Open Source Software:

Android Studio

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