Android Programming Tutorials

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Android Programming Tutorials show you what you can do with Android, through a series of 28 individual exercises, giving you hands-on instruction in how to build sophisticated Android applications, using many of the technologies outlined in CommonsWare's other Android books. These exercises lead you through the basics of creating Android applications, all the way through many fun Android features like Internet access, location tracking, maps, integrated WebKit browsers, cameras, accelerometers, and much more. Full source code to all the exercise answers is available right on this page, to help you if you get stuck. Android Programming Tutorials makes an excellent companion volume to more traditional Android books that merely tell you what is possible.
The book has been battle-tested, used in the author's live Android training events, with the exercises put through their paces by hundreds of students.
Table of Contents

1. Your First Android App
2. A Simple Form
3. A Fancier Form
4. Adding a List
5. Making A More Elaborate List
6. Splitting the Tab
7. Menus and Messages
8. Sitting in the Background
9. Life and Times
10. A Few Good Resources
11. The Restaurant Store
12. Getting More Active
13. What's Your Preference?
14. Turn, Turn, Turn
15. Feeding At Lunch
16. Serving Up Lunch
17. Locating Lunch
18. Putting Lunch on the Map
19. Is It Lunchtime Yet?
20. More Subtle Lunch Alarms
21. A Restaurant In Your Own Home
22. A Lunch *List* At Home
23. A Fragment of Lunch at the Action Bar
24. Lunches, Large and Small
25. Getting Some Help with Lunch
26. Take a Monkey to Lunch
27. Ringing the Lunch Bell
28. Asking Permission to Place a Call