Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach

Description

The professional programmer's Deitel® guide to Android™ smartphone and tablet app development and the Eclipse IDE with the Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in

Billions of apps have been downloaded from Android Market! This book gives you everything you'll need to start developing great Android apps quickly and getting them published on Android Market. The book uses an app-driven approach - each new technology is discussed in the context of 16 fully tested Android apps, complete with syntax coloring, code walkthroughs and sample outputs. Apps you'll develop include:

* SpotOn Game
* Slideshow
* Flag Quiz
* Route Tracker
* Favorite Twitter® Searches
* Address Book
* Tip Calculator
* Doodlz
* Weather Viewer
* Cannon Game
* Voice Recorder
* Pizza Ordering

Practical, example-rich coverage of:

* Smartphone and Tablet Apps, Android Development Tools (ADT) Plug-In for Eclipse
* Activities, Intents, Content Providers
* GUI Components, Menus, Toasts, Resource Files, Touch and Gesture Processing
* Tablet Apps, ActionBar and AppWidgets
* Tweened Animations, Property Animations
* Camera, Audio, Video, Graphics, OpenGL ES
* Gallery and Media Library Access
* SharedPreferences, Serialization, SQLite
* Handlers and Multithreading, Games
* Google Maps, GPS, Location Services, Sensors
* Internet-Enabled Apps, Web Services, Telephony, Bluetooth®
* Speech Synthesis and Recognition
* Android Market, Pricing, Monetization
* And more

PLUS: Register your product at www.informit.com/register for additional online chapters that cover Android Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4), including a complete, working Ice Cream Sandwich app!

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CONTENTS:

1.1 Introduction 2

2.1 Introduction 36

Dive-Into® Eclipse and the ADT Plugin

3.1 Introduction 69

Building an Android App with Java

4.1 Introduction 92

SharedPreferences, Buttons, Nested Layouts, Intents, AlertDialogs, Inflating XML Layouts and the Manifest File

5.1 Introduction 118

Assets, AssetManager, Tweened Animations, Handler, Menus and Logging Error Messages

6.1 Introduction 147

Listening for Touches and Gestures, Manual Frame-By-Frame Animation, Graphics, Sound, Threading, SurfaceView and SurfaceHolder

7.1 Introduction 177

Property Animation, ViewPropertyAnimator, AnimatorListener, Thread-Safe Collections, Default SharedPreferences for an Activity

8.1 Introduction 205

Two-Dimensional Graphics, SensorManager, Multitouch Events and Toasts

9.1 Introduction 226

Chapter 10: Address Book App 258

10.1 Introduction 259

Google Maps API, GPS, LocationManager, MapActivity, MapView and Overlay

11.1 Introduction 292

Gallery and Media Library Access, Built-In Content Providers, MediaPlayer, Image Transitions, Custom ListActivity Layouts and the View-Holder Pattern

Serializing Data, Taking Pictures with the Camera and Playing Video in a VideoView

13.1 Introduction 361

Web Services, JSON, Fragment, ListFragment, DialogFragment, ActionBar, Tabbed Navigation, App Widgets, Broadcast Intents and BroadcastReceivers

14.1 Introduction 391

Index 460

See the Online Chapters section of the Preface for information on downloading these chapters.

Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text and Telephony

Audio Recording and Playback

Bluetooth

OpenGL ES 3D Rendering

Bonus Chapter: HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript for Experienced Web Developers