- 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
John Horton is a coding and gaming enthusiast based in the UK. He has a passion for writing apps, games, books, and blog articles about coding, especially for beginners.
He is the founder of Game Code School, http://www.gamecodeschool.com, which is dedicated to helping complete beginners to get started with coding, using the language and platform that suits them best.
John sincerely believes that anyone can learn to code and that everybody has a game or an app inside them, but they just need to do enough work to bring it out.
He has authored around a dozen technology books, most recently, the following:
- Android Game Programming by Example (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/android-game-programming-example)
- Learning Java Building Android Games (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/learning-java-building-android-games)
Thanks to Jo, Jack, James, Ray, and Rita.
Also to everybody at Packt Publishing who lent a hand with this book: Edward Gordon, Divij Kotian, and Mrunmayee Patil. Thank you for your continuous support throughout this journey.
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