Search and Find
Service
Android Essentials
of: Chris Haseman
Apress, 2009
ISBN: 9781430210634 , 100 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
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
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