77.6 Printing from Android Devices

Google recommends that applications which provide the ability to print content do so by placing the print option in the Overflow menu (a topic covered in some detail in the chapter entitled “Creating and Managing Overflow Menus on Android”). A number of applications bundled with Android now include “Print…” menu options. Figure 77-2, for example, shows the Print option accessed by selecting the “Share…” option in the Overflow menu of the Chrome browser application:

Figure 77-2

Once the print option has been selected from within an application, the standard Android print screen will appear showing a preview of the content to be printed as illustrated in Figure 77-3:

Figure 77-3

Tapping the panel along the top of the screen will display the full range of printing options:

Figure 77-4

The Android print panel provides the usual printing options such as paper size, color...