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Android Studio 4.1 Development Essentials – Java Edition

You're reading from   Android Studio 4.1 Development Essentials – Java Edition Developing Android 11 Apps Using Android Studio 4.1, Java, and Android Jetpack

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Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801815161
Length 810 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Neil Smyth Neil Smyth
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1. Introduction 2. Setting up an Android Studio Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating an Example Android App in Android Studio 4. Creating an Android Virtual Device (AVD) in Android Studio 5. Using and Configuring the Android Studio AVD Emulator 6. A Tour of the Android Studio User Interface 7. Testing Android Studio Apps on a Physical Android Device 8. The Basics of the Android Studio Code Editor 9. An Overview of the Android Architecture 10. The Anatomy of an Android Application 11. An Overview of Android View Binding 12. Understanding Android Application and Activity Lifecycles 13. Handling Android Activity State Changes 14. Android Activity State Changes by Example 15. Saving and Restoring the State of an Android Activity 16. Understanding Android Views, View Groups and Layouts 17. A Guide to the Android Studio Layout Editor Tool 18. A Guide to the Android ConstraintLayout 19. A Guide to using ConstraintLayout in Android Studio 20. Working with ConstraintLayout Chains and Ratios in Android Studio 21. An Android Studio Layout Editor ConstraintLayout Tutorial 22. Manual XML Layout Design in Android Studio 23. Managing Constraints using Constraint Sets 24. An Android ConstraintSet Tutorial 25. A Guide to using Apply Changes in Android Studio 26. An Overview and Example of Android Event Handling 27. Android Touch and Multi-touch Event Handling 28. Detecting Common Gestures using the Android Gesture Detector Class 29. Implementing Custom Gesture and Pinch Recognition on Android 30. An Introduction to Android Fragments 31. Using Fragments in Android Studio - An Example 32. Modern Android App Architecture with Jetpack 33. An Android Jetpack ViewModel Tutorial 34. An Android Jetpack LiveData Tutorial 35. An Overview of Android Jetpack Data Binding 36. An Android Jetpack Data Binding Tutorial 37. An Android ViewModel Saved State Tutorial 38. Working with Android Lifecycle-Aware Components 39. An Android Jetpack Lifecycle Awareness Tutorial 40. An Overview of the Navigation Architecture Component 41. An Android Jetpack Navigation Component Tutorial 42. Creating and Managing Overflow Menus on Android 43. An Introduction to MotionLayout 44. An Android MotionLayout Editor Tutorial 45. A MotionLayout KeyCycle Tutorial 46. Working with the Floating Action Button and Snackbar 47. Creating a Tabbed Interface using the TabLayout Component 48. Working with the RecyclerView and CardView Widgets 49. An Android RecyclerView and CardView Tutorial 50. A Layout Editor Sample Data Tutorial 51. Working with the AppBar and Collapsing Toolbar Layouts 52. An Android Studio Master/Detail Flow Tutorial 53. An Overview of Android Intents 54. Android Explicit Intents – A Worked Example 55. Android Implicit Intents – A Worked Example 56. Android Broadcast Intents and Broadcast Receivers 57. A Basic Overview of Threads and AsyncTasks 58. An Overview of Android Started and Bound Services 59. Implementing an Android Started Service – A Worked Example 60. Android Local Bound Services – A Worked Example 61. Android Remote Bound Services – A Worked Example 62. An Android Notifications Tutorial 63. An Android Direct Reply Notification Tutorial 64. Foldable Devices and Multi-Window Support 65. An Overview of Android SQLite Databases 66. The Android Room Persistence Library 67. An Android TableLayout and TableRow Tutorial 68. An Android Room Database and Repository Tutorial 69. Accessing Cloud Storage using the Android Storage Access Framework 70. An Android Storage Access Framework Example 71. Video Playback on Android using the VideoView and MediaController Classes 72. Android Picture-in-Picture Mode 73. An Android Picture-in-Picture Tutorial 74. Making Runtime Permission Requests in Android 75. Android Audio Recording and Playback using MediaPlayer and MediaRecorder 76. Working with the Google Maps Android API in Android Studio 77. Printing with the Android Printing Framework 78. An Android HTML and Web Content Printing Example 79. A Guide to Android Custom Document Printing 80. An Introduction to Android App Links 81. An Android Studio App Links Tutorial 82. A Guide to the Android Studio Profiler 83. An Android Biometric Authentication Tutorial 84. Creating, Testing and Uploading an Android App Bundle 85. An Overview of Android Dynamic Feature Modules 86. An Android Studio Dynamic Feature Tutorial 87. An Overview of Gradle in Android Studio Index

76.13 Creating Map Markers

Markers are used to notify the user of locations on a map and take the form of either a standard or custom icon. Markers may also include a title and optional text (referred to as a snippet) and may be configured such that they can be dragged to different locations on the map by the user. When tapped by the user an info window will appear displaying additional information about the marker location.

Markers are represented by instances of the Marker class and are added to a map via a call to the addMarker() method of the corresponding GoogleMap object. Passed through as an argument to this method is a MarkerOptions class instance containing the various options required for the marker such as the title and snippet text. The location of a marker is defined by specifying latitude and longitude values, also included as part of the MarkerOptions instance. For example, the following code adds a marker including a title, snippet and a position to a specific location...

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