The Busy Coder's Guide to Advanced Android Development - Softcover

Mark L. Murphy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098167805X ISBN 13: 9780981678054

Publisher: Commonsware, LLC, 2011

Synopsis

There are many Android programming guides that give you the basics. This book goes beyond simple apps into many areas of Android development that you simply will not find in competing books.

Whether you want to add home screen app widgets to your arsenal, or create more complex maps, integrate multimedia features like the camera, integrate tightly with other applications, or integrate scripting languages, this book has you covered.

Moreover, this book has over 50 pages of Honeycomb-specific material, from dynamic fragments, to integrating navigation into the action bar, to creating list-based app widgets. It also has a chapter on using NFC, the wireless technology behind Google Wallet and related services.

This book is one in CommonsWare's growing series of Android related titles, including The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development, Android Programming Tutorials, and the upcoming Tuning Android Applications.

Table of Contents

1. WebView, Inside and Out
2. Crafting Your Own Views
3. More Fun With ListViews
4. Creating Drawables
5. Home Screen App Widgets
6. Interactive Maps
7. Creating Custom Dialogs and Preferences
8. Advanced Fragments and the Action Bar
9. Animating Widgets
10. Using the Camera
11. Playing Media
12. Handling System Events
13. Advanced Service Patterns
14. Using System Settings and Services
15. Content Provider Theory
16. Content Provider Implementation Patterns
17. The Contacts ContentProvider
18. Searching with SearchManager
19. Introspection and Integration
20. Tapjacking
21. Working with SMS
22. More on the Manifest
23. Device Configuration
24. Push Notifications with C2DM
25. NFC
26. The Role of Scripting Languages
27. The Scripting Layer for Android
28. JVM Scripting Languages
29. Reusable Components
30. Testing
31. Production

About this title

From the Publisher:

CommonsWare is pleased to continue supporting the Android development community with this updated version of The Busy Coder's Guide to Advanced Android Development. From technical support on StackOverflow, to open source components, to conference presentations, CommonsWare is actively working to make Android application development as productive and painless as possible.

If you have questions about this book or the sample code presented in it, please post a question on StackOverflow with the 'commonsware' tag, and we will aim to respond to you promptly.

About the Author:

Mark Murphy is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of the Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development and other books on Android application development. He is active in supporting the Android developer community, from answering questions on StackOverflow to publishing sample code and reusable components as open source. A three-time entrepreneur, his experience ranges from consulting on open source and collaborative development for the Fortune 500 to application development on just about anything smaller than a mainframe. He has been a software developer for nearly three decades, from the TRS-80 to the latest crop of mobile devices. A polished speaker, Mr. Murphy has delivered conference presentations and training sessions on a wide array of topics internationally.

About this edition

• Publisher: Commonsware, LLC
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 098167805X
• ISBN 13: 9780981678054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 632