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Android Developer's Cookbook, The: Building Applications with the Android SDK, Rough Cuts

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  • Copyright 2011
  • Dimensions: 7" x 9"
  • Pages: 400
  • Edition: 1st
  • Rough Cuts
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-247343-7
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-247343-9

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

Want to get started building applications for Android, the world’s hottest, fast-growing mobile platform? Already building Android applications and want to get better at it? This book brings together all the expert guidance–and code–you’ll need!

Completely up-to-date to reflect the newest and most widely used Android SDKs, The Android Developer’s Cookbook is the essential resource for developers building apps for any Android device, from phones to tablets.

Proven, modular recipes take you from the absolute basics to advanced location-based services, security techniques, and performance optimization. You’ll learn how to write apps from scratch, ensure interoperability, choose the best solutions for common problems, and avoid development pitfalls. Coverage includes:

  • Implementing threads, services, receivers, and other background tasks
  • Providing user alerts
  • Organizing user interface layouts and views
  • Managing user-initiated events such as touches and gestures
  • Recording and playing audio and video
  • Using hardware APIs available on Android devices
  • Interacting with other devices via SMS, web browsing, and social networking
  • Storing data efficiently with SQLite and its alternatives
  • Accessing location data via GPS
  • Using location-related services such as the Google Maps API
  • Building faster applications with native code
  • Providing backup and restore with the Android Backup Manager
  • Testing and debugging apps throughout the development cycle

Turn to The Android Developer’s Cookbook for proven, expert answers–and the code you need to implement them. It’s all you need to jumpstart any Android project, and create high-value, feature-rich apps that sell!

Sample Content

Table of Contents

1 Overview of Android 1

                The Evolution of Android 1

                The Dichotomy of Android 2

                Devices Running Android 2

                                HTC Models 6

                                Motorola Models 6

                                Samsung Models 6

                                Tablets 7

                                Other Devices 7

                Hardware Differences on Android Devices 8

                                Screens 8

                                User Input Methods 9

                                Sensors 9

                Features of Android 10

                                Multiprocess and App Widgets 11

                                Touch, Gestures, and Multitouch 11

                                Hard and Soft Keyboards 11

                Android Development 11

                                How to Use the Recipes in This Book 12

                                Designing Applications Well

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