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Pro Android 5 shows you how to build real-world and fun mobile apps using the Android 5 SDK. This book updates the best-selling Pro Android and covers everything from the fundamentals of building apps for smartphones, tablets, and embedded devices to advanced concepts such as custom components, multi-tasking, sensors/augmented reality, better accessories support and much more.
- Using the tutorials and expert advice, you'll quickly be able to build cool mobile apps and run them on dozens of Android-based smartphones.
- You'll explore and use the Android APIs, including those for media and sensors.
- And you'll check out what's new in Android, including the improved user interface across all Android platforms, integration with services, and more.
By reading this definitive tutorial and reference, you'll gain the knowledge and experience to create stunning, cutting-edge Android apps that can make you money, while keeping you agile enough to respond to changes in the future.
List of contents
1 Hello, World
2 Introduction to Android Applications
3 Basic User Interface Controls
4 Adapters and List Controls
5 Making Advanced UI Layouts
6 Adding Menus and ActionBar
7 Styles and Themes
8 Fragments
9 Responding to Configuration Changes
10 Dialogs: Regular and Fragment
11 Working with Preferences and Saving State
12 Compatibility Library
13 Exploring Packages, Processes, Components, Threads and Handlers
14 Working with Services
15 Advanced Async Task & Progress Dialogs
16 Exploring Broadcast Receivers and Long Running Services
17 Exploring the Alarm Manager
18 Unveiling 2D Animation
19 Exploring Maps and Location Services
20 Understanding the Media Frameworks
21 Home Screen Widgets
22 Touchscreens
23 Drag and Drop
24 Using Sensors
25 Understanding Content Providers
26 Understanding the Contacts API
27 Loaders
28 Security and Permissions
29 Google Cloud messaging and services
30 Deploying Your Application: Google Play Store and Beyond
About the author
Grant Allen has worked in the IT field for nearly 20 years, specializing in relational database management systems from a variety of vendors. For the past decade, he has worked in the Asia Pacific region and Europe as a principal database consultant and enterprise architect for several organizations, and he now works in the database field for Google.
Summary
Pro Android 5 shows you how to build real-world and fun mobile apps using the Android 5 SDK.
