Android Application Development: A Beginner's Tutorial

Android is the most popular mobile platform today and it comes with a comprehensive set of APIs that make it easy for developers to write, test and deploy apps. With these APIs you can easily show user interface (UI) components, play and record audio and video, create games and animation, store and retrieve data, search the Internet, and so on. This book is a tutorial for experienced Java programmers wanting to learn to develop Android applications. It introduces the fundamentals and provide real-world applications for every topic of discussion. Table of Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Activities Chapter 3: UI Components Chapter 4: Layouts Chapter 5: Listeners Chapter 6: The Action Bar Chapter 7: Menus Chapter 8: ListView Chapter 9: GridView Chapter 10: Styles and Themes Chapter 11: Bitmap Processing Chapter 12: Graphics and Custom Views Chapter 13: Fragments Chapter 14: Multi-Pane Layouts Chapter 15: Animation Chapter 16: Preferences Chapter 17: Working with Files Chapter 18: Working with the Database Chapter 19: Taking Pictures Chapter 20: Making Videos Chapter 21: The Sound Recorder Chapter 22: Handling the Handler Chapter 23: Asynchronous Tasks Chapter 24: Services Chapter 25: Broadcast Receivers Chapter 26: The Alarm Service Chapter 27: Content Providers Appendix A: Installing the JDK Appendix B: Using the ADT Bundle Index