Android Essentials
Android Essentials is a nofrills, nononsense, codecentric run through the guts of application development on Google’s Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work. Covering the entirety of the Android catalog in less than 150 pages is simply impossible. Instead, this book focuses on just four main topics: the application life cycle...
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Android is Google’s answer to the iPhone and at the very least, has advantages in terms of multitasking, running apps in the background and others. Google’s CEO is getting front page coverage commenting on the coming Google/iPhone war.This is a no frills, no nonsense, code centric run through the guts of application development on Google’s Mobile OS. It focuses on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work.
Ch. 1 Introduction 1What You Need to Know to Start 1How to Best Use This Book 2Getting Started 2The Android Project 5Running, Debugging, and Causing General Mayhem 8Ch. 2 The Application 9Getting Active 9Creating the Intent Receiver 19Who Do You Want to Humiliate Today? 29Moving Data in Android 34Part of This Balanced Breakfast 69Ch. 3 User Interface 41Easy and Fast, the XML Layout 42Waking Up the Widgets 55Custom UI Rendering with the Canvas 67Using the User Interface 74Ch. 4 Location, Location, Location 75Where Am I? 75Google Maps 80Ch. 5 Taking Android Out for a Walk 89Loading a List from the Web 89Making a List and Checking It 95The Next Step 102Looking Back 106Ch. 6 Tying on a Bow 107The Making of an Application 107Other Sources of Information 109It's Time to Stop Reading and Start Helping 110Copyright 112
