Learning Android

 

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Author: Marko Gargenta
Publication date: March 28, 2011
Pages: 270

Table of Contents:

1. Android Overview.
2. The Stack. (Stack Overview, Linux, Native Libraries, Dalvik, Application Framework)
3. Quick Start. (Installing the Android SDK, Hello World, The Emulator)
4. Main Building Blocks. (Real World Example, Activities, Intents, Services, Content Providers, Broadcast Receivers, Application Context)
5. Yamba Project Overview. (Yamba Application, Design Philosophy)
6. Android UI. (Two Ways to Create a UI, Views and Layouts, Starting the Yamba Project, The StatusActivity Layout, The StatusActivity  Java Class, Logging in Android, Threading in Android, Adding Colors and Graphics, Alternative Resources, Optimizing the UI)
7. Preferences, Filesystem, Options Menu and Intents.
8. Services. (The Yamba Application Object, UpdateService, Looping in the Service, Pulling Data from Twitter)
9. The Database. (SQLite, DbHelper, Update UpdateServer, Refactoring Status Data)
10. Lists and Adapters. (TimelineActivity, Basic TimelineActivity Layout, About Adapters, TimelineAdapter, ViewBuilder, Updating the Manifest File, Base Activity)
11. Broadcast Receivers. (BootReceiver, TimeLineReceiver, Broadcasting Intents, The Network Receiver, Custom Permissions to Send and Receive Boardbasts)
12. Content Providers. (Create and Using Content Providers)
13. System Services. (Compass Demo, Location Service, Updating Yanba to Use the Location Service, Intent Service, Sending Notifications)
14. The Android Interface Definition Language. (Implement the Remote Service and Client)
15. The Native Development Kit (NDK)