Android Recipes · A Problem-Solution Approach by Dave Smith, Jeff Friesen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents at a Glance Contents Foreword About the Authors About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: Getting Started with Android

What Is Android? History of Android Android Architecture App Architecture

Components Intents Manifest App Package

Activities in Depth Services in Depth Broadcast Receivers in Depth Content Providers in Depth

1–1. Installing the Android SDK 1–2. Installing an Android Platform 1–3. Creating an Android Virtual Device 1–4. Starting the AVD 1–5. Introducing UC 1–6. Creating UC 1–7. Installing and Running UC 1–8. Preparing UC for Publishing 1–9. Migrating to Eclipse 1–10. Developing UC with Eclipse

Summary

Chapter 2: User Interface Recipes

2–1. Customizing the Window 2–2. Creating and Displaying Views 2–3. Monitoring Click Actions 2–4. Resolution-Independent Assets 2–5. Locking Activity Orientation 2–6. Dynamic Orientation Locking 2–7. Manually Handling Rotation 2–8. Creating Pop-Up Menu Actions 2–9. Customizing Options Menu 2–10. Customizing Back Button 2–11. Emulating the Home Button 2–12._monitoring_textview_changes 2–13. Scrolling TextView Ticker 2–14. Animating a View 2–15. Creating Drawables as Backgrounds 2–16. Creating Custom State Drawables 2–17. Applying Masks to Images 2–18. Creating Dialogs that Persist 2–19. Implementing Situation-Specific Layouts 2–20. Customizing Keyboard Actions 2–21. Dismissing Soft Keyboard 2–22. Customizing AdapterView Empty Views 2–23. Customizing ListView Rows 2–24. Making ListView Section Headers 2–25. Creating Compound Controls Useful Tools to Know: DroidDraw

Obtaining and Launching DroidDraw Exploring DroidDraw’s User Interface Creating a Simple Screen

Summary

Chapter 3: Communications and Networking

3–1. Displaying Web Information 3–2. Intercepting WebView Events 3–3. Accessing WebView with JavaScript 3–4. Downloading an Image File 3–5. Downloading Completely in the Background 3–6. Accessing a REST API 3–7. Parsing JSON 3–8. Parsing XML 3–8. Receiving SMS 3–9. Sending an SMS Message 3–10. Communicating over Bluetooth 3–11. Querying Network Reachability Summary

Chapter 4: Interacting with Device Hardware and Media

4–1. Integrating Device Location 4–2. Mapping Locations 4–3. Annotating Maps 4–4. Capturing Images and Video 4–5. Making a Custom Camera Overlay 4–6. Recording Audio 4–7. Adding Speech Recognition 4–8. Playing Back Audio/Video 4–9. Creating a Tilt Monitor 4–10. Monitoring Compass Orientation Useful Tools to Know: SensorSimulator

Obtaining Sensor Simulator Launching Sensor Simulator Settings and Sensor Simulator Accessing Sensor Simulator from Your Apps

Summary

Chapter 5: Persisting Data

5–1. Making a Preference Screen 5–2. Persisting Simple Data 5–3. Reading and Writing Files 5–4. Using Files as Resources 5–5. Managing a Database 5–6. Querying a Database 5–7. Backing Up Data 5–8. Sharing Your Database 5–9. Sharing Your Other Data Useful Tools to Know: SQLite3

SQLite3 and UC

Summary

Chapter 6: Interacting with the System

6–1. Notifying from the Background 6–2. Creating Timed and Periodic Tasks 6–3. Scheduling a Periodic Task 6–4. Creating Sticky Operations 6–5. Running Persistent Background Operations 6–6. Launching Other Applications 6–7. Launching System Applications 6–8. Letting Other Applications Launch Yours 6–9. Interacting with Contacts 6–10. Picking Device Media 6–11. Saving to the MediaStore Summary

Chapter 7: Working with Libraries

7–1. Creating Java Library JARs 7–2. Using Java Library JARs 7–3. Creating Android Library Projects 7–4. Using Android Library Projects 7–5. Charting 7–6. Practical Push Messaging Summary

Appendix A: Scripting Layer for Android

Installing SL4A Exploring SL4A

Adding a Shell Script Accessing the Linux Shell

Installing the Python Interpreter Scripting with Python

Appendix B: Android NDK

Installing the NDK Exploring the NDK Greetings from the NDK

Building and Running NDKGreetings with the Android SDK Building and Running NDKGreetings with Eclipse

Sampling the NDK

Appendix C: App Design Guidelines

C–1. Designing Filtered Apps C–2. Designing High-Performance Apps C–3. Designing Responsive Apps C–4. Designing Seamless Apps

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