Learn Android App Development

✍ Scribed by Wallace Jackson (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 536
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn Android App Development is a hands-on tutorial and useful reference. You'll quickly get up to speed and master the Android SDK and the Java that you need for your Android Apps.

The Android SDK offers powerful features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering them—and the rest of the Andorid SDK—for programmers with some experience who are new to Android smartphone and tablet apps development. Many books introduce the Android SDK, but very few explain how to develop apps optimally. This book teaches both core Java language concepts and how to wisely but rapidly employ the design patterns and logic using the Android SDK, which is based on Java APIs.

You'll also learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient and perform well.

• Get an accelerated but complete enough treatment of the fundamentals of Java necessary to get you started.
• Design your first app using prototyping and other design methods.
• Build your first Android app using the code given over the course of the book.
• Finally, debug and distribute your first app on Google Play or other Android app store.

After reading this book, you'll have your first app ready and on the app store, earning you the prestige and the money you seek.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Building an Android IDE for Version 4.2: Acquiring, Installing, and Configuring an Android Development Environment....Pages 1-30
Exploring Android App Development: The Lingo of Android and Building Your First Hello World App!....Pages 31-54
Java for Android Primer: Enhancing Our Hello World Application....Pages 55-76
Layouts and Activities: Using ViewGroup Classes....Pages 77-110
Android Intents and Events: Adding Interactivity....Pages 111-136
Android UI Design: Using Views and Widgets via XML....Pages 137-164
Android Graphics Design: Concepts and Techniques....Pages 165-190
Compositing in Android: Advanced Graphical User Interface Design....Pages 191-216
Android Image Animation: Frame-Based Animation Using XML Constructs....Pages 217-238
Android Vector Animation: Procedural Animation via XML Constructs....Pages 239-272
An Introduction to Video: Concepts and Optimization....Pages 273-300
Digital Video in Android: Using the VideoView Class....Pages 301-320
An Introduction to Audio: Concepts and Optimization....Pages 321-344
Playing Audio in Android: The MediaPlayer Class....Pages 345-362
Audio Sequencing: Android SoundPool Class....Pages 363-382
Android Intents: Inter-Application Programming....Pages 383-410
Android Services: Using Background Processing....Pages 411-432
Broadcast Receivers: Android Inter-Application Communication....Pages 433-450
Android Content Providers: Access to Datastores....Pages 451-486
Building an Android IDE for Version 4.12 and Earlier: Acquiring, Installing, and Configuring an Android Development Environment....Pages 487-507
Back Matter....Pages 509-520

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general