- Android Programming for Beginners
- Table of Contents
- Android Programming for Beginners
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. The First App
- 2. Java – First Contact
- 3. Exploring Android Studio
- 4. Designing Layouts
- 5. Real-World Layouts
- 6. The Life and Times of an Android App
- 7. Coding in Java Part 1 – Variables, Decisions, and Loops
- 8. Coding in Java Part 2 – Methods
- 9. Object-Oriented Programming
- Important memory management warning
- Introducing OOP
- Taking a look at the code for a class
- The basic classes mini app
- Remember that encapsulation thing?
- Encapsulation and static methods mini app
- OOP and inheritance
- The inheritance mini app
- Polymorphism
- FAQ
- Summary
- 10. Everything's a Class
- 11. Widget Mania
- 12. Having a Dialogue with the User
- 13. Handling and Displaying Arrays of Data
- 14. Handling and Displaying Notes in Note To Self
- 15. Android Intent and Persistence
- 16. UI Animations
- 17. Sound FX and Supporting Different Versions of Android
- 18. Design Patterns, Fragments, and the Real World
- Introducing the model-view-controller pattern
- The imperfections of Note To Self revisited
- Android design guidelines
- Real-world apps
- The device detection mini app
- Configuration qualifiers
- Using configuration qualifiers – mini app
- Fragments
- Our first working Fragment mini app
- Fragment reality check
- FAQ
- Summary
- 19. Using Multiple Fragments
- Using singletons for the model layer
- Inter-Fragment communications – interfaces revisited
- The dual-Fragment address book mini app
- Getting started
- Alias resources
- The NameAndAddress class
- Creating the communication interface
- Explaining the structure of the onListItemSelected method
- Explaining the code that starts a new Activity
- Explaining the code when the detail Fragment is already present
- What do we need to do?
- Creating the AddressDetailFragment class and layout
- Coding PortraitDetailActivity and the layout
- FAQ
- Summary
- 20. Paging and Swiping
- 21. Navigation Drawer and Where It's Snap
- 22. Capturing Images
- 23. Using SQLite Databases in Our Apps
- 24. Adding a Database to Where It's Snap
- 25. Integrating Google Maps and GPS Locations
- 26. Upgrading SQLite – Adding Locations and Maps
- 27. Going Local – Hola!
- 28. Threads, Touches, Drawing, and a Simple Game
- 29. Publishing Apps
- 30. Before You Go
- Index
Android Studio running on any of the major operating systems can use the code in this book. Android Studio is a free software and full setup instructions for Windows are in the opening chapter.
Android Studio is the recommended development tool, and at the time of publication, the minimum system requirements were as follows:
- Microsoft® Windows® 8/7/Vista/2003 (32 or 64 bit)
- 2 GB RAM minimum; however, 4 GB RAM is recommended
- 400 MB hard disk space
- At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
- Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality
- Mac® OS X® 10.8.5 or a higher version, up to 10.9 (Mavericks)
- 2 GB RAM minimum; however, 4 GB RAM is recommended
- 400 MB hard disk space
- At least 1 GB for the Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
- Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
- Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality
On a Mac OS, run Android Studio with Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 for optimized font rendering. You can then configure your project to use Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 or JDK 7.
- A GNOME or KDE desktop
- GNU C Library (glibc) 2.15 or later
- 2 GB RAM minimum; however, 4 GB RAM is recommended
- 400 MB hard disk space
- At least 1 GB for the Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- Oracle® Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
Tested on Ubuntu® 14.04, Trusty Tahr (64-bit distribution capable of running 32-bit applications).
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