Developing Android Apps Basics 2

A new and improved edition of the initial Android Development Basics book.

This concise book offers an overview of fundamental Android development principles through brief explanations and illustrative examples.

Here is an outline of the topics covered:

• Basic Concepts
• Activity
• View
• Intent
• Service
• Development
• Android SDK
• ADT Eclipse plugin
• Creating a project
• A project structure
• Creating a Virtual Device
• Generating jars
• User Interface
• • Views
  • View Groups
  • List view
  • Spinner
  • Layouts
  • Global Strings
  • Menus
  • Options Menu
  • Context Menu
  • Submenu
  • Alerts/Dialogs
  • AlertDialog
  - AlertDialog with a List

• - Custom Dialog from XML file - Status-Bar Notifications - Resource images
  - A Bitmap object - Drawing the bitmap on a canvas - Linkfy - System APIs - Multi-threading
  - Regular Thread - Thread + Handler - AsyncTask - Timer - Opening a new screen - Network - Media (audio, video) - Text to speech - Storage
  - Shared preferences - Storing internally - Storing externally - Camera - Contacts - Phone calls - SMS, MMS
  • - Geo-location

• - Screen Properties - Vibrate - List installed Applications - NDK

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