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Android Programming for Beginners

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ISBN-13 9781789538502
Length 766 pages
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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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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

Running the completed game

Run the game. Tap the left-hand side to face 90 degrees left and the right-hand side to face 90 degrees right. See if you can beat my high score shown in the following screenshot:

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Still hungry- must eat!

And when you die, the game pauses to view the final catastrophe and a message about how to start again. This is shown in the following screenshot:

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That didn't taste so good!

You have successfully completed the final project.

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