- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief Contents
- Contents in Detail
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Getting Started
- 2: Build a Hi-Lo Guessing Game App!
- 3: Creating a GUI for Our Guessing Game
- Practicing with JShell
- Setting Up the GUI App in Eclipse
- GUI Design with Eclipse’s WindowBuilder Editor
- Designing the User Interface
- Adding a Method to Check the Player’s Guess
- Starting a New Game
- Listening for User Events: Click to Guess!
- Setting Up the GUI Window
- Time to Play!
- Adding a Play Again Feature
- Improving the UX
- Handling Bad User Input
- What You Learned
- Programming Challenges
- 4: Creating Your First Android App
- Starting a New Android Studio App Project
- Building the GUI Layout in Design View
- Naming GUI Components in Android Studio
- Connecting the GUI to Java in Android Studio
- Adding Methods to Check the Guess and Begin a New Game
- Handling Events in Android
- Running the App on the Android Emulator
- Running the App on a Real Android Device
- Improving the UX
- What You Learned
- Programming Challenges
- 5: Polishing Your App by Adding Menus and Preferences
- 6: Deciphering Secret Messages
- 7: Creating Advanced GUIs and Sharing Your App
- 8: Make Secret Messages a Phone App to Share with Friends!
- 9: Paint Colorful Bubbles with Your Mouse!
- 10: Adding Animation and Collision Detection with Timers
- Copying the BubbleDraw Java Project to Create BubbleDrawGUI
- Adding Animation: Bubbles Rising!
- Forever Blowing Bubbles: Adding Random Speed and Direction
- Building a GUI for Our Animated Drawing App
- Bouncing off the Walls with Collision Detection
- Adding a Slider to Control the Animation Speed
- What You Learned
- Programming Challenges
- 11: Making BubbleDraw a Multitouch Android App
- Setting Up the BubbleDraw Project
- Creating the BubbleView Constructor
- Modifying the Bubble Class
- Drawing in Android with the onDraw() Method
- Testing BubbleDraw with 100 Bubbles
- Using Threaded Animation and Multitasking in Java
- Using Touch to Draw with Your Finger
- Changing the App Launcher Icon
- What You Learned
- Programming Challenges
- Appendix: Debugging and Avoiding Common Errors in Java
- Index
- Resources
About the Technical Reviewer
Bryan Fagan is a middle school engineering and technology teacher. He lives in Dahlonega, Georgia, where he teaches, enjoys the slow-rolling Appalachian mountains with his wife and daughter, and trains in Brazilian jiujitsu. He is the founder of Make Stuff, an after-school makerspace for middle school students.
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