Introducing the Android Platform
- Establishing the development environment
- Analyzing components of the architecture
Leveraging Application Fundamentals
Building mobile applications
- Creating activities to process user input
- Implementing views to build the User Interface (UI)
- Packaging applications for deployment
- Developing unit tests
Supporting asynchronous behavior
- Performing background tasks with services
- Communicating with intents
Creating User Interfaces
Selecting visual components
- Building the layout
- Connecting a view to an activity
- Positioning form elements
Working with resource declarations
- Declaring component definitions and layouts
- Handling multiple screen resolutions
- Localizing applications
Processing User Input
Communicating with the user
- Creating and displaying Toast
- Generating status bar notifications
- Logging key application events
Interacting with the UI
- Responding to user input events
- Launching activities with intents
- Writing Java event handlers
- Generating context and option menus
Managing the activity life cycle
- Integrating with the Android system
- Persisting data in response to notifications
Persisting Application Data
Selecting storage options
- Contrasting internal and external storage locations
- Saving application configuration with SharedPreferences
Manipulating the SQLite database
- Executing queries to locate information
- Specifying column selections with projections
Consuming and creating content providers
- Accessing shared data resources
- Addressing content providers with URIs
Maintaining System Responsiveness
Avoiding Application Not Responding (ANR) errors
- Unloading the UI thread
- Designing for asynchronous execution
Building background services
- Launching IntentServices
- Declaring services in the manifest
Exchanging Data over the Internet
Interacting with server-side applications
- Synchronizing Android devices with servers
- Communicating via HTTP clients
Developing clients for web services
- Connecting to RESTful services
- Creating and parsing JSON
Enhancing the User Experience
Incorporating the Action Bar
- Manipulating objects with drag and drop
- Supporting orientation and multiple screen resolutions with resources
- Combining fragments into a multi-pane UI
Leveraging geolocation and mapping capabilities
- Plotting positions on Google Maps
- Establishing location through GPS, Cell-ID and WiFi
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