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Android Programming for Beginners

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563438
Length 742 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (30) Chapters Close

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

Inner and anonymous classes

Before we go ahead to the next chapter and build apps with loads of different widgets that will put into practice and reinforce everything we have learned in this chapter, we will have a very brief introduction to Anonymous and Inner classes.

When we implemented our basic classes demo app in Chapter 10, Object-Oriented Programming, we declared and implemented the class in a separate file to our MainActivity class. That file had to have the same name as the class. This is the way to create a regular class.

We can also declare and implement classes within a class. Other than how we do this, the only question remaining, of course, is why would we do this?

When we implement an inner class, the inner class can access the member variables of the enclosing class and the enclosing class can access the members of the inner class.

This often makes the structure of our code more straightforward. So inner classes are sometimes the way to go.

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