Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- How This Book Is Organized -- Part I: Getting Started with Your First Android Application -- Part II: Building and Publishing Your First Android Application -- Part III: Creating a Feature-Rich Application -- Part IV: Android Is More than Phones -- Part V: The Part of Tens -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Part I: Getting Started with Your First Android Application -- Chapter 1: Developing Spectacular Android Applications -- Why Develop for Android? -- Market share -- Time to market -- Open platform -- Device compatibility -- Mashup capability -- Android Development Basics -- Java: Your Android programming language -- Activities -- Fragments -- Intents -- Cursorless controls -- Views -- Background operations -- Background services -- Android support library -- Action bar -- Widgets and notifications -- Hardware Tools -- Touchscreen -- GPS -- Accelerometer -- SD card -- Software Tools -- Internet -- Audio and video support -- Contacts -- Security -- Google APIs -- Chapter 2: Prepping Your Development Headquarters -- Developing the Android Developer Inside You -- Assembling Your Toolkit -- Linux kernel -- Android framework -- Application framework -- Java knowledge -- Tuning Up Your Hardware -- Operating system -- Computer hardware -- Installing and Configuring Your Support Tools -- Installing Android Studio -- Mac users -- Windows users -- Installing Java 7 -- Adding SDK Packages -- Navigating the Android SDK -- Specifying Android Platforms -- Using SDK Tools for Everyday Development -- Saying hello to the emulator -- Getting physical with a real Android device [Windows] -- Debugging your work -- Trying out the API and SDK samples.

Giving the API demos a spin -- Part II: Building and Publishing Your First Application -- Chapter 3: Your First Android Project -- Starting a New Project in Android Studio -- Responding to Errors -- Setting Up an Emulator -- Running the Hello Android App -- Running the app in the emulator -- Checking app logs -- Understanding Project Structure -- Navigating your app's folders -- Viewing the application's manifest file -- Viewing the build.gradle file -- Understanding the Compile SDK, Minimum SDK, and Target SDK Versions -- What's Up Next -- Chapter 4: Creating the User Interface -- Creating the Silent Mode Toggle Application -- Laying Out the Application -- Working with views -- Using Android layouts -- Adding an Image to Your Application -- Setting image properties -- Setting drawable resources -- Creating a Launcher Icon for the Application -- Designing a custom launcher icon -- Adding a custom launcher icon -- Previewing the Application in the Visual Designer -- Chapter 5: Coding Your Application -- Understanding Activities and the Activity Lifecycle -- The Activity lifecycle -- Important lifecycle loops -- Viewing activity methods -- Following an activity's path -- Recognizing configuration changes -- Creating Your First Activity -- Starting with onCreate -- Telling Android to display the user interface -- Handling user input -- Writing your fi rst click listener -- Working with the Android Framework Classes -- Getting good service -- Toggling Silent mode with AudioManager -- Installing Your Application -- Running your app in an emulator -- Installing on a physical Android device -- Material Design -- Uh-Oh! (Responding to Errors) -- Using the Android view -- Using the Android Studio debugger -- Thinking Beyond the Application Boundaries -- Interacting with your application.

Testing whether your application works -- What about automated testing? -- Chapter 6: Understanding Android Resources -- Understanding Resources -- Dimensions -- Styles -- Themes -- Values -- Menus -- Colors -- Working with Resources -- Moving strings into resources -- Wrestling the image beast -- Making your apps global with resources -- Different Strokes for Different Folks: Using Resource Qualifier Directories -- Using default resources -- Localizing to another language -- Handling different screen sizes -- Portrait versus landscape orientations -- Handling old Android versions -- Qualifier name rules -- Chapter 7: Turning Your Application into an App Widget -- Working with App Widgets in Android -- Working with remote views -- Using AppWidgetProviders -- Working with Intents and Pending Intents -- Understanding the Android intent system -- Understanding intent data -- Evaluating intents -- Using pending intents -- Creating the App Widget -- Implementing the AppWidgetProvider -- Communicating with the app widget -- Building the app widget's layout -- Doing work inside an AppWidgetProvider -- Working with the app widget's metadata -- Registering your new components with the manifest -- Placing Your Widget on the Home Screen -- Chapter 8: Publishing Your App to the Google Play Store -- Creating a Distributable File -- Choosing your tools -- Digitally signing your application -- Creating the APK file -- Creating a Google Play Developer Profile -- Pricing Your Application -- Choosing the paid model -- Choosing the free model -- Getting Screen Shots for Your Application -- Uploading Your Application to the Google Play Store -- Watching the Number of Installs Soar -- Part III: Creating a Feature-Rich Application -- Chapter 9: Designing the Tasks Application -- Reviewing the Basic Requirements -- Storing data.

Scheduling a reminder script (That's alarming!) -- Notifying the user -- Creating the Application's Screens -- Starting the new project -- Cleaning up the TaskListActivity -- Editing the activity_task_list.xml layout file -- Setting the action bar -- Creating the TaskListFragment -- Making your fragment show a list -- Styling your activity -- Chapter 10: Creating the Task Detail Page -- Creating the TaskEditActivity -- Linking the List View to the Edit View -- Creating the TaskEditFragment -- Creating the layout -- Creating the fragment -- You Put the Fragment in the Activity and Shake It All Up -- Updating the Styles -- A Special Bonus -- Chapter 11: Going a la Carte with Your Menu -- Understanding Options and Context Menus -- Creating Your First Menu -- Defining the XML file -- Handling user actions -- Creating your second menu -- Creating a Long-Press Action -- Chapter 12: Handling User Input -- Creating the User Input Interface -- Creating an EditText view -- Displaying an onscreen keyboard -- Getting Choosy with Dates and Times -- Creating picker buttons -- Date and time pickers -- Creating an Alert Dialog -- Seeing why you should work with dialogs -- Choosing the appropriate dialog for a task -- Creating your own alert dialog -- Validating Input -- Toasting the user -- Using other validation techniques -- Chapter 13: Getting Persistent with Data Storage -- Finding Places to Put Data -- Viewing your storage options -- Choosing a storage option -- Understanding How the SQLite ContentProvider Works -- Creating Your Application's SQLite Database -- Visualizing the SQL table -- Creating the database table -- Using ContentProvider URIs -- Dealing with CRUD -- Create -- Update -- Delete -- Read -- Implementing the Save Button -- Implementing the List View -- Using loaders -- Using adapters -- Deleting a task.

Reading Data into the Edit Page -- Chapter 14: Reminding the User -- Seeing Why You Need AlarmManager -- Asking the User for Permission -- Seeing how permissions affect the user experience -- Setting requested permissions in the AndroidManifest.xml file -- Waking Up a Process with AlarmManager -- Creating the ReminderManager helper -- Creating the notification in OnAlarmReceiver -- Updating a Notification -- Clearing a Notification -- Rebooting Devices -- Creating a boot receiver -- Checking the boot receiver -- Chapter 15: Working with Android Preferences -- Understanding the Android Preferences Framework -- Understanding the Preference Fragment Class -- Persisting preference values -- Laying out preferences -- Creating Your Preferences Screen -- Building the preferences file -- Adding string resources -- Working with the Preference Fragment Class -- Starting the PreferencesActivity -- Handling menu selections -- Working with Preferences in Your Activities at Runtime -- Retrieving preference values -- Setting preference values -- Part IV: Android Is More than Phones -- Chapter 16: Developing for Tablets -- Considering the Differences between Phones and Tablets -- Tweaking the Tasks App for Tablets -- Anticipating screen size with a responsive layout -- Adding more fragments -- Creating different layouts for different devices -- Configuring a Tablet Emulator -- Creating a New Product Flavor -- Creating an AndroidManifest for Phones -- Moving the TaskListAdapter -- Informing the Google Play Store -- Creating an AndroidManifest for Tablets -- Making the TaskListAndEditorActivity for Tablets -- Creating the tablet activity class -- Adding the tablet layout -- Building the Tablet App -- Adding the App Callbacks -- One More Thing -- Chapter 17: Supporting Older Versions of Android -- Understanding AppCompat.

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