Android 4 App Development Essentials

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© 2013 Neil Smyth / Payload Media. This eBook is provided for personal use only. Unauthorized use, reproduction and/or distribution strictly prohibited. All rights reserved.


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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to Android 4.2 App Development Essentials
  2. Setting up an Android Development Environment
  3. Creating an Android Virtual Device (AVD)
  4. Creating an Example Android Application
  5. Testing Android Applications on a Physical Android Device with ADB
  6. An Overview of the Android Architecture
  7. The Anatomy of an Android Application
  8. Understanding Android Application and Activity Lifecycles
  9. Handling Android Activity State Changes
  10. Android Activity State Changes - An Example Application
  11. Saving and Restoring the User Interface State of an Android Activity
  12. Understanding Android Views, View Groups and Layouts
  13. Designing an Android User Interface using the Graphical Layout Tool
  14. Creating an Android User Interface in Java Code
  15. Using the Android GridLayout Manager in the Graphical Layout Tool
  16. Working with the Android GridLayout in XML Layout Resources
  17. An Overview and Example of Android Event Handling
  18. Android Touch and Multi-touch Event Handling
  19. Detecting Common Gestures using the Android Gesture Detector Class
  20. Implementing Android Custom Gesture and Pinch Recognition
  21. An Introduction to Android Fragments
  22. Using Fragments in Android - A Worked Example
  23. An Android Master/Detail Flow Tutorial
  24. Creating and Managing Overflow Menus on Android
  25. Animating User Interfaces with the Android Transitions Framework
  26. An Android Transition Tutorial using beginDelayedTransition
  27. Implementing Android Scene Transitions – A Tutorial
  28. An Overview of Android Intents
  29. Android Explicit Intents – A Worked Example
  30. Android Implicit Intents – A Worked Example
  31. Android Broadcast Intents and Broadcast Receivers
  32. A Basic Overview of Android Threads and Thread handlers
  33. An Overview of Android Started and Bound Services
  34. Implementing an Android Started Service – A Worked Example
  35. Android Local Bound Services – A Worked Example
  36. Android Remote Bound Services – A Worked Example
  37. An Overview of Android SQLite Databases
  38. An Android TableLayout and TableRow Tutorial
  39. An Android SQLite Database Tutorial
  40. Understanding Android Content Providers
  41. An Android Content Provider Tutorial
  42. Implementing Video Playback on Android using the VideoView and MediaController Classes
  43. Video Recording and Image Capture on Android using Camera Intents
  44. Android Audio Recording and Playback using MediaPlayer and MediaRecorder
  45. Working with the Google Maps Android API
  46. Handling Different Android Devices and Displays
  47. Signing and Preparing an Android Application for Release

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Chapters from the soon to be released Android 4.4 Edition of this book



Accessing Cloud Storage using the Android Storage Access Framework

An Android Storage Access Framework Example

Printing with the Android Printing Framework

An Android HTML and Web Content Printing Example

An Android Custom Document Printing Tutorial

Old Chapters from Android 4.2

  1. Integrating Google Play In-app Billing into an Android Application – A Tutorial


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