Essentials for a Quality App:

• http://developer.android.com/distribute/essentials/index.html
• Design for Translation
• http://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-sharpens-usability-guidelines/
• Pushkar Joglekar's (prior TA) Quora answer on Android app architecture: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-create-your-Android-apps-architecture/answer/Pushkar-Joglekar
• Also this is a great resource for keeping up to date with the developer world of Android: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/
  
• Additional Resources (you may want to search for updated ones):
  
  1. User-defined motion gestures for mobile interaction- Jaime Ruiz, University of Waterloo,Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Yang Li, Google Research, Mountain View, California, USA, Edward Lank, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Ref: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1978971 )
  2. Usable gestures for mobile interfaces: evaluating social acceptability- Julie Rico, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom (Ref: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1753458)
  3. Gesture based interaction: http://www.billbuxton.com/input14.Gesture.pdf
  4. Gesture Search: A tool for fast mobile data access: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1866044
  5. Gesture-based interaction: a new dimension for mobile user interfaces: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254556.2254560
  6. Android Gesture Builder:
  http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/10/gestures-on-android-16.html
  http://android-coding.blogspot.com/2011/09/gestures-builder-create-your-gestures.html
  

Fragments

• http://developer.android.com/training/basics/fragments/index.html

Activity Recognition

• Note the main link for the API is here:

  https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/ActivityRecognitionApi

  And it is deprecated. This is not: https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/ActivityRecognitionClient

  You may use either for your assignment.

• Useful class: https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/DetectedActivity
• Example: https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-recognize-user-activity-with-activity-recognition--cms-25851

Misc

• AsyncTask - use this for completing tasks in a background thread.
• Location: http://developer.android.com/training/building-location.html