Book VI

Alternative Android Development Techniques

Contents at a Glance

Chapter 1: Creating Code Quickly with App Inventor

Getting Started with App Inventor

Creating a Project

Using the Designer

Using the Blocks Editor

Chapter 2: More App Inventor Magic

Snap a Photo

Send a Text Message

Travel to the Orient

Animate!

Using a Database

Starting Another Android App

Chapter 3: How to “Rough It” without Eclipse

Preliminaries

Meet Apache Ant

Getting Ready for Text-Based Development

Android Development with Ant

Android Development with Operating System Commands

Chapter 4: Going Native

The Native Development Kit

Creating an Application