Android Application Development For Dummies 2nd Edition
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Android™ Application Development For Dummies 2nd Edition
Visit www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/androidapplicationdevelopment to view this book's cheat sheet.Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Foolish Assumptions
How This Bo ok Is Organized
Part I: The Nuts and Bolts of Android
Part II: Building and Publishing Your First Android Application
Part III: Creating a Feature-Rich Application
Part IV: Tablets
Part V: The Part of Tens
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I: The Nuts and Bolts of Android
Chapter 1: Developing Spectacular Android Applications
Why Develop for Android?
Market share
Time to market
Open platform
Cross-compatibility
Mashup capability
Android Development Basics
Java: Your Android programming language
Activities
Intents
Cursorless controls
Views
Asynchronous calls
Background services
Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Jelly Bean Features
Fragments
Loaders
Android support library
Action bar
Holo
Widgets, notifications, performance
Hardware Tools
Touchscreen
GPS
Accelerometer
SD card
Software Tools
Internet
Audio and video support
Contacts
Security< br>Google APIs
Chapter 2: Prepping Your Development Headquarters
Developing the Android Developer Inside You
Assembling Your Toolkit
Linux 2.6 kernel
Android framework
Application framework
Open Handset Alliance libraries
Java knowledge
Tuning Up Your Hardware
Operating system
Computer hardware
Installing and Configuring Your Support Tools
Getting the Java Development Kit
Acquiring the Android SDK Android Application Development For Dummies 2nd Edition
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