You're reading from Android Programming for Beginners Learn all the Java and Android skills you need to start making powerful mobile applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785883262

Length 698 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Authors (2):

Paresh Mayani

John Horton

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Table of Contents (32) Chapters

Preface

1. The First App FREE CHAPTER

2. Java – First Contact

3. Exploring Android Studio

4. Designing Layouts

5. Real-World Layouts

6. The Life and Times of an Android App

7. Coding in Java Part 1 – Variables, Decisions, and Loops

8. Coding in Java Part 2 – Methods

9. Object-Oriented Programming

10. Everything's a Class

11. Widget Mania

12. Having a Dialogue with the User

13. Handling and Displaying Arrays of Data

14. Handling and Displaying Notes in Note To Self

15. Android Intent and Persistence

16. UI Animations

17. Sound FX and Supporting Different Versions of Android

18. Design Patterns, Fragments, and the Real World

19. Using Multiple Fragments

20. Paging and Swiping

21. Navigation Drawer and Where It's Snap

22. Capturing Images

23. Using SQLite Databases in Our Apps

24. Adding a Database to Where It's Snap

25. Integrating Google Maps and GPS Locations

26. Upgrading SQLite – Adding Locations and Maps

27. Going Local – Hola!

28. Threads, Touches, Drawing, and a Simple Game

29. Publishing Apps

30. Before You Go

Index

The Where it's snap app

Where it's snap will be our most-advanced app! It will have the following features:

It will show a list of photos by their titles.
It will offer the alternative of a list of tags, which when clicked takes you to a list of titles with that matching tag.
It will allow the user to take photos with the device camera and assign a title as well as related tags.
All of the data required (titles and tags) will be stored in a database. You will learn about databases in Chapter 23, Using SQLite Databases in Our Apps, and we will add a database functionality to Where it's snap in Chapter 24, Adding a Database to Where It's Snap.
When the user taps on a photo's title in a list, he/she will see that photo and also be offered the option of showing a Google map of the location the photo was taken at.
We will also see how to make this app multilingual (Spanish and English). Hola!

As with the Note To Self app, we will do things as correctly as possible and use string...

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