Android Essentials (eBook)

Chris Haseman (Autor)

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2009 | 1st ed.
IV, 100 Seiten
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4302-1063-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Android Essentials is a no-frills, no-nonsense, code-centric run through the guts of application development on Google's Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work. Covering the entirety of the Android catalog in less than 150 pages is simply impossible. Instead, this book focuses on just four main topics: the application life cycle and OS integration, user interface, location-based services, and networking.

• Thorough, complete, and useful work on the nuts and bolts of application development in Android
• Example driven and practically minded
• A tool for hobbyists and professionals who want to create production-quality applications

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Inhalt

Contents 2
Chapter 1: Introduction 6
What You Need to Know to Start 6
How to Best Use This Book 7
Getting Started 7
The Android Project 10
Running, Debugging, and Causing General Mayhem 13
Chapter 2: The Application 14
Getting Active 14
Creating the Intent Receiver 24
Who Do You Want to Humiliate Today? 34
Moving Data in Android 39
Part of This Balanced Breakfast 44
Chapter 3: User Interface 46
Easy and Fast, the XML Layout 47
Waking Up the Widgets 60
Custom UI Rendering with the Canvas 72
Using the User Interface 79
Chapter 4: Location, Location, Location 80
Where Am I? 80
Google Maps 85
Chapter 5: Taking Android Out for a Walk 93
Loading a List from the Web 93
Making a List and Checking It… 99
The Next Step 106
Looking Back 110
Chapter 6: Tying on a Bow 111
The Making of an Application 111
Other Sources of Information 113
It’s Time to Stop Reading and Start Helping 114
Copyright 116

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.4.2009
• Zusatzinfo: IV, 100 p.
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Mobile- / App-Entwicklung
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Smartphones / Tablets
• Schlagworte: Android • Configuration • Development • Extensible Markup Language (XML) • Google • Integration • Layout • Network • Networking • Production • Service • Socket • Tool • user interface • XML
• ISBN-10: 1-4302-1063-X / 143021063X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-1063-4 / 9781430210634