Learn Android App Development

✍ Scribed by Wallace Jackson

• 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. Youll 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Building Your Android Software Development Environment
Chapter 2. Exploring Android App Development: Building Your First Hello World App using the Lingo
Chapter 3. Java for Android Primer: Enhancing Our Hello World Application
Chapter 4. Layouts and Activities: Using ViewGroup Classes
Chapter 5. Android Intents and Events: Adding Interactivity
Chapter 6. Android UI Design: Using Views and Widgets via XML
Chapter 7. Android Graphics Design: Concepts and Techniques
Chapter 8. Compositing in Android: Advanced Graphical User Interface Design
Chapter 9. Android Image Animation: Frame-Based Animation Using XML Constructs
Chapter 10. Android Vector Animation: Procedural Animation via XML Constructs
Chapter 11. An Introduction to Video: Concepts and Optimization
Chapter 12. Digital Video in Android: Using the VideoView Class
Chapter 13. An Introduction to Audio: Concepts and Optimization
Chapter 14. Playing Audio in Android: The MediaPlayer Class
Chapter 15. Audio Sequencing: Android SoundPool Class
Chapter 16. Android Intents: Inter-Application Programming
Chapter 17. Android Services: Using Background Processing
Chapter 18. Broadcast Receivers: Android Inter-Application Communication
Chapter 19. Android Content Providers: Access to Datastores
Appendix A