Android Apps for Absolute Beginners 1st Edition by Wallace Jackson ISBN 1430234466 9781430234463

Chapter 1: Preliminary Information: Before We Get Started

Some History: What Is Android?

Advantage Android: How Can Android Benefit Me?

The Scope of This Book

What’s Covered

What’s Not Covered

Preparing for Liftoff: SDK Tools to Download

Chapter 2: What’s Next? Our Road Ahead

Your Android Development IDE

Java, XML, and How Android Works

The Android Application Framework

Screen Layout Design

Chapter 3: SeHing Up Your Android Development Environment

Installing Java, Eclipse, and Android

Java SE and JRE: Your Foundation for Application Development..

Eclipse IDE: The Development Environment

Android SDK: The Android Tool Kit for Eclipse

Android Development Tool: Android Tools for Eclipse

The Android Environment Within Eclipse

Chapter 4: Introducing the Android Software Development Platform

Understanding Java SE and the Dalvik Virtual Machine

The Directory Structure of an Android Project

Common Default Resources Folders

The Values Folder

Leveraging Android XML (Your Secret Weapon)

Screen Sizes

Desktop Clocks

Using Your Android Application Resources

Bitmap Images

Chapter 5: Android Framework Overview

The Foundation of OOP: The Object

Some OOP Terminology

The Blueprint for an Object: The Class

Providing Structure for Your Classes: Inheritance

Defining an Interface

Bundling Classes in a Logical Way: The Package

An Overview of XML

The Anatomy of an Android Application: The APK File

Android Application Components

Chapter 6: Screen Layout Design: Views and Layouts

Android View Hierarchies

Using the View Class

Nesting Views: Using the ViewGroup Class

Defining Screen Layouts: Using XML

Setting Up for Your Screen Layout

Using Linear Layouts

Creating the LinearLayouts Project in Eclipse

Chapter 7: UI Design: Buttons, Menus, and Dialogs

Using Common UI Elements

Adding an Image Button to Your Layout

Defining Multistate Image Button Graphics in XML

Creating the UI Image Button Project in Eclipse

Creating the button1.xml File

Editing the main.xml File

Chapter 8: An Introduction to Graphics Resources in Android

Introducing the Drawables

Implementing Images

Core Drawable Subclasses

Using Bitmap Images in Android

PNG Images

Creating 9-Patch Custom Scalable Images

Playing Video in Your Android Apps

Adding a VideoView Object

Adding the Java for Video

Summary

Chapter 10: Adding Interactivity: Handling UI Events

An Overview of UI Events in Android

Listening for and Handling Events

Handling UI Events via the View Class

Event Callback Methods

Handling onClick Events

Implementing an onClick Listener for a UI Element..

Adding an on Click Listener to an Activity in Android

Creating the Event Handling Examples Project in Eclipse

Editing the HandlerExamples.java File

Chapter 11: Understanding Content Providers

An Overview of Android Content Providers

Databases and Database Management Systems

Android Built-in Content Providers

Contacts Database Contact Providers

Android MediaStore Content Providers

Defining a Content Provider

Creating the Content Providers Example Project in Eclipse

Defining Security Permissions

Chapter 12: Understanding Intents and Intent Filters

What Is an Intent?

Android Intent Messaging via Intent Objects

Intent Resolution: Implicit Intents & Explicit Intents

Explicit Intents

Implicit Intents

Using Intents with Activities

Writing the Digital Clock Activity

Wiring up the Application

Sending Intents

Android Services: Data Processing in its own Class

Using Intents with Services

Creating a Service

Implementing Our MediaPlayer Functions

Chapter 13: The Future

Widgets: Creating Your Own Widgets in Android

Location-Based Services in Android

Google Maps in Android

Google Search in Android

Data Storage in Android