Downloading Earlier SDK Versions
by Kristin Marsicano, Chris Stewart, Bill Phillips
Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Third Edition
- Cover
- Learning Android
- The Necessary Tools
- 1. Your First Android Application
- 2. Android and Model-View-Controller
- 3. The Activity Lifecycle
- 4. Debugging Android Apps
- 5. Your Second Activity
- 6. Android SDK Versions and Compatibility
- 7. UI Fragments and the Fragment Manager
- The Need for UI Flexibility
- Introducing Fragments
- Starting CriminalIntent
- Hosting a UI Fragment
- Creating a UI Fragment
- Adding a UI Fragment to the FragmentManager
- Application Architecture with Fragments
- For the More Curious: Fragments and the Support Library
- For the More Curious: Why Support Fragments Are Superior
- 8. Displaying Lists with RecyclerView
- 9. Creating User Interfaces with Layouts and Widgets
- 10. Using Fragment Arguments
- 11. Using ViewPager
- 12. Dialogs
- 13. The Toolbar
- 14. SQLite Databases
- 15. Implicit Intents
- 16. Taking Pictures with Intents
- 17. Two-Pane Master-Detail Interfaces
- 18. Localization
- 19. Accessibility
- 20. Data Binding and MVVM
- 21. Unit Testing and Audio Playback
- Creating a SoundPool
- Loading Sounds
- Playing Sounds
- Test Dependencies
- Creating a Test Class
- Setting Up Your Test
- Writing Tests
- Data Binding Callbacks
- Unloading Sounds
- Rotation and Object Continuity
- For the More Curious: Whether to Retain
- For the More Curious: Espresso and Integration Testing
- For the More Curious: Mocks and Testing
- Challenge: Playback Speed Control
- 22. Styles and Themes
- 23. XML Drawables
- 24. More About Intents and Tasks
- 25. HTTP and Background Tasks
- Creating PhotoGallery
- Networking Basics
- Using AsyncTask to Run on a Background Thread
- You and Your Main Thread
- Fetching JSON from Flickr
- From AsyncTask Back to the Main Thread
- Cleaning Up AsyncTasks
- For the More Curious: More on AsyncTask
- For the More Curious: Alternatives to AsyncTask
- Challenge: Gson
- Challenge: Paging
- Challenge: Dynamically Adjusting the Number of Columns
- 26. Loopers, Handlers, and HandlerThread
- Preparing RecyclerView to Display Images
- Downloading Lots of Small Things
- Communicating with the Main Thread
- Assembling a Background Thread
- Messages and Message Handlers
- For the More Curious: AsyncTasks vs Threads
- For the More Curious: Solving the Image Downloading Problem
- For the More Curious: StrictMode
- Challenge: Preloading and Caching
- 27. Search
- 28. Background Services
- Creating an IntentService
- What Services Are For
- Looking for New Results
- Delayed Execution with AlarmManager
- Controlling Your Alarm
- Notifications
- Challenge: Notifications on Android Wear
- For the More Curious: Service Details
- For the More Curious: JobScheduler and JobServices
- Challenge: Using JobService on Lollipop
- For the More Curious: Sync Adapters
- 29. Broadcast Intents
- 30. Browsing the Web and WebView
- 31. Custom Views and Touch Events
- 32. Property Animation
- 33. Locations and Play Services
- Locations and Libraries
- Creating Locatr
- Play Services and Location Testing on Emulators
- Building Out Locatr
- Setting Up Google Play Services
- Using Google Play Services
- Flickr Geosearch
- Getting a Location Fix
- Asking for Permission at Runtime
- Find and Display an Image
- Challenge: Permissions Rationale
- Challenge: Progress
- 34. Maps
- 35. Material Design
- 36. Afterword
- Index
Android Studio provides the SDK and the emulator system image from the latest platform. However, you may want to test your apps on earlier versions of Android.
You can get components for each platform using the Android SDK Manager. In Android Studio, select Tools → Android → SDK Manager. (You will only see the Tools menu if you have a project open. If you have not created a project yet, you can instead access the SDK Manager from the Android Setup Wizard screen. Under the Quick Start section, select Configure → SDK Manager.)
The SDK Manager is shown in Figure 1.
Select and install each version of Android that you want to test with. Note that downloading these components may take a while.
The Android SDK Manager is also how to get Android’s latest releases, like a new platform or an update of the tools.
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