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  • Copyright 2013
  • Edition: 1st
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  • ISBN-10: 0-13-299658-8
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-299658-7

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In just a few short years, Android has become themainstream smartphone operating system.  As Android evolves to accommodate a growing ecosystem of phones, tablets, and even TVs, understanding how to work with a variety of sensors, screen sizes, and operating system versions is vital.

In this video series, Android developer Ian G. Clifton takes a tutorial-style approach to teaching the viewer how to work with all the essential parts of the Android SDK.  Each lesson builds onto a single app, utilizing new features and ultimately resulting in a reference app that can be easily used to see how to implement everything from Fragments and sensors to OpenGL and RenderScript.  Although built for Android 4.x, the videos cover how to target devices running earlier versions of Android by using the support library and version-specific resources in an application to ensure the widest possible audience.


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Lesson 1

Lesson 1: Jumping into Android Development, Downloadable Version

Lesson 1--Jumping into Android Development demonstrates how to set up the development environment by downloading and installing Eclipse and then installing both the Android Development Tools (ADT), and the Android SDK.  Next, viewers will see how to set up the Android emulator by creating an Android Virtual Device to create their first app.

Duration: 01:04:51  File Size: 161MB

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Lesson 2

Lesson 2: Android Development Essentials, Downloadable Version

Lesson 2—Android Development Essentials demonstrates how to use the Android compatibility library to bring newer SDK features to older versions of Android, allowing for support of hundreds of millions of devices.  Then, the lesson covers Fragments, which enables the developer to group the UI into reusable pieces.  Finally, XML is used to define layouts using standard Android views.

Duration: 00:57:44  File Size: 143MB

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Lesson 3

Lesson 3: Connecting Android to the Web, Downloadable Version

Lesson 3—Connecting Android to the Web covers connecting to the web, along with concurrent programming.  Viewers will see how the main thread handles UI and user interactions such as touch events and how to move long-running tasks such as web access onto background threads using AsyncTask.  Next, the lesson covers how the app can ask the system to view web content, how to view web content from within our app with WebViews, and finally how to download raw Strings from servers in order to use them in the app.

Duration: 01:23:24  File Size: 226MB

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Lesson 4

Lesson 4: Building Services, BroadcastReceivers, and Widgets, Downloadable Version

Lesson 4-- Building Services, BroadcastReceivers, and Widgets covershow to create a service, which allows code to run without requiring any UI.  That service will then be used to interact with a JSON-based API in order to extract useful data.  An error is thrown in so that viewers can learn basic, real-world troubleshooting in situations where you don’t have clear output on the screen.  Then the lesson covers BroadcastReceivers, which enable developers to listen to Intents, whether the app is active or not.  That knowledge is then used to build a home screen widget that is a BroadcastReceiver itself and gets data from the service.

Duration: 01:32:38  File Size: 274MB

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Lesson 5

Lesson 5: Working with Persistent Data, Downloadable Version

Lesson 5 – Working with Persistent Data showshow to store data that will stick around even if the app is killed or the phone reboots.  The lesson starts off with the easiest method called SharedPreferences, which is used for storing a primitive or String.  Then the lesson covers reading from and writing to the file system, specifically, external storage.  Finally, viewers will see how to work with structured data that can be queried by creating and working with a SQLite table.

Duration: 01:27:51  File Size: 256MB

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Lesson 6

Lesson 6: Accessing the World around the Device with Sensor and Phone Features, Downloadable Version

Lesson 6 – Accessing the World around the Device with Sensors and Phone Features explores the capabilities built into the device by making phone calls from the app.   The lesson demonstrates how to pass the call off to the system and then how to call directly from the app and then the same is done for SMS messaging.  The second segment moves on to sensors, so that viewers will understand how to use sensors even when they are not available on a given device.  Viewers will gain an understanding of how sensors are generalized in Android so that developers can work with any of them.  The Lesson specifically covers reading both the proximity and pressure sensor values and how to create simple code to update the UI based on accelerometer data.

Duration: 01:08:20  File Size: 212MB

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Lesson 7

Lesson 7: Immersion with Audio, Video, and the Camera, Downloadable Version

Lesson 7 – Immersion with Audio, Video, and the Camera starts with an overview of the types of media files Android can handle before coding audio support into the app.  This enables support of things like podcasts and music playback.  Then the lesson covers how to play back video easily.  Finally, viewers will learn how to pass off an Intent to the system in order to let the user take a photograph with their favorite camera app that can be used within your app.

Duration: 00:49:05  File Size: 151MB

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Lesson 8

Lesson 8: Determining the Device Location and Putting It to Work, Downloadable Version

Lesson 8 – Determining the Device Location and Putting It to Work covers the core concepts of the LocationManager class that is central to all location-based services.  The object that comes back with all of that location data is simply a Location object, and viewers will learn how to extract data from it such as the latitude and longitude.  The lesson also covers passing coordinates to the emulator in order to make testing easier.  Then, it covers using the Geocoder, which can forward geocode, i.e., convert from an address to coordinates, and reverse geocode, meaning turning coordinates into an address.  The second segment moves on to the visual aspects of location-based services by covering how to use the MapView as well as how to use Overlays.

Duration: 00:59:26  File Size: 179MB

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Lesson 9

Lesson 9: Drawing for Custom Views and Live Wallpapers, Downloadable Version

Lesson 9 – Drawing for Custom Views and Live Wallpapers starts with the creation of a compound View that combines existing Views to simplify the interaction with those Views.  Then, viewers will see how to create a completely custom View that does the same thing using custom Canvas drawing.  The second segment applies that new-found knowledge to create a Live Wallpaper.  The basics of Live Wallpapers are covered before viewers dive into how to draw to the Canvas and how to handle touch events.

Duration: 01:05:58  File Size: 191MB

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Lesson 10

Lesson 10: Advanced Android Graphics with OpenGL ES 2.0, Downloadable Version

Lesson 10 – Advanced Android Graphics with OpenGL ES covers how to show off the capabilities of a device running Android with OpenGL ES.  It allows for extremely fast and efficient graphical rendering that is easily scaled to a variety of screen sizes.  This lesson focuses on the most critical aspects, starting with an explanation of the differences between OpenGL ES 1.x and 2.0 and how to implement a GLSurfaceView and its associated Renderer.  The second segment covers 3D drawing with vertices, colors, and indices in order to draw primitives.  The lesson explores two different ways to create a pyramid to explain the differences between drawing modes.  The third segment covers movement by handling touch events and rotating our primitives based on the touch interaction.

Duration: 00:53:18  File Size: 144MB

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Lesson 11

Lesson 11: Understanding RenderScript for Graphics and Calculations, Downloadable Version

Lesson 11 – Understanding RenderScript for Graphics and Calculations covers RenderScript, which is a frequently overlooked feature that enables developers to offload complex processing to the GPU.  It is based on C99 with extensions, but allocating memory is done through Java.   Developers can use Java to load an image, pass it into your compiled RenderScript and have it very efficiently modify that image.  The lesson goes into some depth on what RenderScript really is, when to use it, when not to use it, and how the files interact and build.  Segment two focuses on using RenderScript for calculations.  The third segment uses RenderScript to generate graphics similar to OpenGL ES, including the use of textures.

Duration: 01:17:05  File Size: 212MB

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