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Android Application Development Cookbook

You're reading from Android Application Development Cookbook Over 100 recipes to help you solve the most common problems faced by Android Developers today

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785886195

Length 428 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Authors (2):

Rick Boyer

Kyle Mew

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Activities FREE CHAPTER

2. Layouts

3. Views, Widgets, and Styles

4. Menus

5. Exploring Fragments, AppWidgets, and the System UI

6. Working with Data

7. Alerts and Notifications

8. Using the Touchscreen and Sensors

9. Graphics and Animation

10. A First Look at OpenGL ES

11. Multimedia

12. Telephony, Networks, and the Web

13. Getting Location and Using Geofencing

14. Getting your app ready for the Play Store

15. The Backend as a Service Options

Index

Chapter 6. Working with Data

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Storing simple data
Read and write a text file to internal storage
Read and write a text file to external storage
Including resource files in your project
Creating and using an SQLite database
Access data in the background using a Loader

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Authors (2)

Mew

Mew

Kyle Mew has been programming since the early '80s and has written for several technology websites. Also, he has written three radio plays and four other books on Android development.

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Boyer

Boyer

Rick Boyer has been programming professionally for over 20 years. He has written apps on Windows, created websites, and coded for various mobile devices, including Windows CE, Windows Phone, and Android. Almost eight years ago, he took the plunge and started his own software consulting business, NightSky Development, focusing exclusively on Android development.

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