| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introducing the Android Computing Platform -- Setting Up Your Development Environment -- Understanding Android Resources -- Understanding Content Providers -- Understanding Intents -- Building User Interfaces and Using Controls -- Working with Menus -- Fragments for Tablets and More -- Working with Dialogs -- Exploring ActionBar -- Advanced Debugging and Analysis -- Responding to Configuration Changes -- Working with Preferences and Saving State -- Exploring Security and Permissions -- Building and Consuming Services -- Exploring Packages -- Exploring Handlers -- Exploring the AsyncTask -- Broadcast Receivers and Long-Running Services -- Exploring the Alarm Manager -- Exploring 2D Animation -- Exploring Maps and Location-based Services -- Using the Telephony APIs -- Understanding the Media Frameworks -- Home Screen Widgets -- Exploring List Widgets -- Touch Screens -- Implementing Drag and Drop -- Using Sensors -- Exploring the Contacts API -- Deploying Your Application: Android Market and Beyond |
| Summary |
Pro Android 4 shows you how to build real-world and fun mobile apps using the new Android SDK¡4 (Ice Cream Sandwich), which unifies Gingerbread for smartphones, Honeycomb for tablets and augments further with Google TV and more. This Android 4¡book updates the best selling Pro Android 3 and covers everything from the fundamentals of building apps for embedded devices, smartphones, and tablets to advanced concepts such as custom 3D 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 with Android 4, including the improved¡user interface¡across all Android platforms, integration with services, and more. After reading this definitive tutorial and reference, you gain the knowledge and experience to create stunning, cutting-edge Android 4 apps that can make you money, while keeping you agile enough to respond to changes in the future |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 29, 2017) |
| SUBJECT |
Android (Electronic resource) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009043077
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Android (Electronic resource) blmlsh |
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Android (Electronic resource) fast |
| Subject |
Smartphones.
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Mobile computing.
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Application software -- Development.
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COMPUTERS -- Operating Systems -- Android.
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Application software -- Development
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Mobile computing
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Smartphones
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
MacLean, Dave
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Franchomme, Eric
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| LC no. |
2012554319 |
| ISBN |
9781430239314 |
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143023931X |
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