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Android Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   Android Programming for Beginners Build in-depth, full-featured Android 9 Pie apps starting from zero programming experience

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789538502
Length 766 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (33) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Beginning Android and Java FREE CHAPTER 2. First Contact – Java, XML, and the UI Designer 3. Exploring Android Studio and the Project Structure 4. Getting Started with Layouts and Material Design 5. Beautiful Layouts with CardView and ScrollView 6. The Android Lifecycle 7. Java Variables, Operators, and Expressions 8. Java Decisions and Loops 9. Java Methods 10. Object-Oriented programming 11. More Object-Oriented Programming 12. The Stack, the Heap, and the Garbage Collector 13. Anonymous Classes – Bringing Android Widgets to Life 14. Android Dialog Windows 15. Arrays, ArrayList, Map and Random Numbers 16. Adapters and Recyclers 17. Data Persistence and Sharing 18. Localization 19. Animations and Interpolations 20. Drawing Graphics 21. Threads, and Starting the Live Drawing App 22. Particle Systems and Handling Screen Touches 23. Supporting Different Versions of Android, Sound Effects, and the Spinner Widget 24. Design Patterns, Multiple Layouts, and Fragments 25. Advanced UI with Paging and Swiping 26. Advanced UI with Navigation Drawer and Fragment 27. Android Databases 28. Coding a Snake Game Using Everything We Have Learned So Far 29. Enumerations and Finishing the Snake Game 30. A Quick Chat Before You Go Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Summary

In this chapter, we finally had some real interaction between our code and our UI. It turns out that every time we add a widget to our UI, we are adding a Java object of a class that we can access with a proper reference in our Java code. All of these objects are stored in a separate area of memory called the Heap, along with any classes of our own.

We are now in a position where we can learn about and do cool things with some of the more interesting widgets. We will look at loads of them in the next chapter, Chapter 13, Anonymous Classes - Bringing Android Widgets to Life, and then keep introducing further new widgets throughout the rest of the book as well.

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