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Android Programming for Beginners

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883262
Length 698 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paresh Mayani Paresh Mayani
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Table of Contents (32) Chapters Close

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

Coding TitlesFragment

We are really close to being able to actually show a photo in our Photos app. We need to load a list of photo titles from our database into ListView, provided by ListFragment, and handle what happens when the user clicks on a list item.

Some of the code in here won't make complete sense until we finish coding MainActivity, which will, of course, handle the communication between TitlesFragment and ViewFragment, as well as TagsFragment and TitlesFragment.

Let's add two new members to TitlesFragment—a Cursor member to load some data into and an instance of our new interface.

Add the two highlighted member variables where shown:

public class TitlesFragment extends ListFragment {

  private Cursor mCursor;
  private ActivityComs mActivityComs;

  
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  }

Next, in the onCreate method, we do the following:

  • Get a string to represent the tag from Bundle, using getArguments...
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