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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789538502

Length 766 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

John Horton

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Table of Contents (33) Chapters

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

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Index

Running the app

Click the play button in Android Studio and the hard work and theory of the last two chapters will spring to life:

Running the app

You can see that we now have created a real-time system with our game loop and a thread. If you run this on a real device, you will easily achieve 60 frames per second at this stage.

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Authors (1)

John Horton

John Horton

John Horton is a programming and gaming enthusiast based in the UK. He has a passion for writing apps, games, books, and blog articles. He is the founder of Game Code School.

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