Developing Android Apps Basics
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2024-12-22
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This free short book describes the basics of Android development.
A new and better version of the first Android Development Basics book.
This free short book describes the basics of Android development.
It contains short explanations and examples.
Here is the subject list:
Basic Concepts
Activity
View
Intent
Service
Development
Android SDK
ADT Eclipse plugin
Creating a project
A project structure
Creating a Virtual Device
Generating jars
User Interface
Views
-View Groups
-List view
-Spinner
-Layouts
Global Strings
Menus
-Options Menu
-Context Menu
-Submenu
Alerts/Dialogs
-AlertDialog
-AlertDialog with a List
-Custom Dialog from XML file
-Status-Bar Notifications
Resource images
-A Bitmap object
-Drawing the bitmap on a canvas
Linkfy
System APIs
Multi-threading
-Regular Thread
-Thread + Handler
-AsyncTask
-Timer
Opening a new screen
Network
Media (audio, video)
Text to speech
Storage
-Shared preferences
-Storing internally
-Storing externally
Camera
Contacts
Phone calls
SMS, MMS
Geo-location
Screen Properties
Vibrate
List installed Applications
NDK
Enjoy.
What's New in the Latest Version 2
Last updated on Aug 2, 2015 -Tablet layout support !!- Enabling code samples selections and copy- magnifying glasses appear above the ad. Fixing the bug with magnifying glass which presses the ads by mistake.
- Adding a button at the end of each section to link to the next section so there is no need to go back to menu page on every section
content changes:
- added the method - openOptionsMenu()
- adjustments for android studio
-phone properties
-build properties
-wifi
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