Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

Use a ListFragment to display and manage a ListView.

Use FragmentTransactions and the back stack to dynamically attach Fragments to and detach Fragments from the GUI.

Create and open SQLite databases using a SQLiteOpenHelper, and insert, delete and query data in a SQLite database using a SQLiteDatabase object

Use a SimpleCursorAdapter to bind database query results to a ListView’s items.

Use a Cursor to manipulate database query results.

Use multithreading and AsyncTasks to perform database operations outside the GUI thread and maintain application responsiveness.

Define styles containing common GUI attributes and values, then apply them to multiple GUI components.