Android is a sophisticated, multi-layered operating system encompassing a wide range of features, capabilities and components. This is organised into a 'Stack', whereby each layer communicates with the layer immediately below. Here we review this stack and briefly examine the primary components at each layer.

We should now begin to have a firm understanding of structure of an android project as presented in Eclipse. Here we review the MyRent v00 in detail, and review all its working parts

Although the app is still relatively simple, this app crosses a threshold in our understanding of Android.The Activity class implements multiple interfaces, each implementation responding to different widgits. Here we review this in detail, as it represents a pattern we will see in most of the application we develop.

This is the specification for the first assignment. When you complete the MyRent labs, you should consider turning your attention to this specification here, and move on with one of the required features. Sometimes you may have to do some independent research.

Central to almost all Android applications is the notion of an event. How events are intercepted and handled is an aspect of all android programmes. Here we review the underlying Java mechanisms used in this context

We start a new application in this lab, which will be succeeded by numerous version over the next few topics. In this lab the focus is on explaining the essential 'plumbing' of the app, and introducing the first Interface based listener you may have encountered.

In this version of MyRent, we introduce a range of UI Widgits to evolve the UX into something more useful. These widgits will be 'active', meaning that the host Activity will be intercepting and responding to events the user may generate when interacting with the application.

This is a short lab whose aim is to provide a detailed explanation of event handling via a simple standalone non-android application

This is a solution to the event handling lab.