Android in practice. Application design

Original title: Android in practice. Application design
Author: Roman Wantoch-Rekowski
ISBN: 978-83-01-17813-0
Release date: 2014-06-02
Format: 165x240
Pages: 400

About the book

Android is currently the most popular platform for mobile phones and tablets. The number of activations is hundreds of thousands in one day all over the world. Therefore, the ability to create your own software for mobile devices with Android gives you the opportunity to reach a huge number of users.

The book is intended for people who want to learn the basics of building software for mobile devices from scratch, which are significantly different than in the case of desktops and start writing their own applications using a wide range of available software and hardware components.

The book contains 2 parts. The first part presents the philosophy of operation (supported by examples) so that the reader can understand what processes take place during the launch of the mobile application. The second part of the article discusses examples of the broad spectrum of capabilities of mobile devices with the Android system.

To use the book the reader should:

• know the basics of programming in Java;
• have a basic knowledge of application design;
• know the basics of using the Eclipse development environment;

Using the book, the reader will learn:

• how to create your first mobile application with Android in a few steps;
• what are the basic components of a mobile application (including activities, intentions, websites, content providers);
• how the application works on a mobile device (life cycle);
• how to create a developed application project;
• how to design basic and extended GUI for own applications (layouts);
• how to prepare various types of resources (data, graphics) for your own application;
• how to design and implement your own SQLite relational database;
• how to download and save data to the SQLite database using SQL;
• how to create complex 2D graphics and elements of 3D graphics;
• how to configure and use the mobile device emulator - AVD.

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• Table of Contents