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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563438

Length 742 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

John Horton

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Table of Contents (30) Chapters

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

Chapter 2: First Contact: Java, XML, and the UI Designer

At this stage, we have a working Android development environment and we have built and deployed our first app. It is obvious, however, that the auto-generated code from Android Studio is not going to make the next top-selling app on Google Play. We need to explore this auto-generated code so we can begin to understand Android and then learn how to build upon this useful template. With this aim in mind, in this chapter, we will do the following:

See how to get technical feedback from our apps
Examine the Java code and UI XML code from our first app
Get our first taste of using the Android Studio User Interface (UI) designer
Learn some core Java fundamentals and how they relate to Android
Write our first Java code

First, let's see how to get feedback from our apps.

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Chapter 2: First Contact: Java, XML, and the UI Designer

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