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Outline:

Intro to Services, their lifetime, how they interact with the UI
Intro to main thread
Why we need to do work in the background
Methods for background execution and their uses:
Thread, AsyncTask, Executor, Loader, IntentService
Lab: exec Thread.sleep() in background, post message to UI

45 min lesson
45 min lab

Assignee TBD

Outline:

Why unit test (this is partially getting covered in cross platform talk)
Challenges of Unit Testing in Android
Decoupling Logic from UI (introduce concepts for Architectures talk)
Robolectric

45 minutes talking (might have them right unit test or two for their app. haven't decided)

Outline:

Intro to network
Common libs
Formatting an http request
Parsing a response
Error handling strategies
Lab: exec network call in background, post data to UI

45 min lesson
45 min lab