Android online documentation

The official Android documentation provided by Google is available at http://developer.android.com/. This documentation contains all the necessary guides to learn not only how to program Android applications, but also how to design for Android and how to distribute and promote our applications. Since this website is quite extensive, here we are listing some of the specific guides useful to increase the knowledge exposed throughout the chapters of this book:

1. Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Android Studio:

   • Android Studio documentation, at http://developer.android.com/tools/studio/index.html

   • Known issues, at http://tools.android.com/knownissues

2. Chapter 2, Starting a Project:

   • App Bar, at https://developer.android.com/training/appbar/index.html

   • Floating action button, at https://www.google.com/design/spec/components/buttons-floating-action-button.html

   • Fragments, at https://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html

   • Navigation drawer, at https://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/navigation-drawer.html

   • Using code templates, at https://developer.android.com/studio/projects/templates.html

3. Chapter 3, Navigating a Project:

   • Manage your project, at https://developer.android.com/studio/projects/index.html

   • App manifest, at https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-intro.html

4. Chapter 4, Using the Code Editor:

   • Default Keymap reference, at https://resources.jetbrains.com/assets/products/intellij-idea/IntelliJIDEA_ReferenceCard_mac.pdf

   • File and code templates, at https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.1/file-and-code-templates.html

5. Chapter 5, Creating User Interfaces:

   • Layouts, at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/declaring-layout.html

   • Input controls, at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls.html

   • Input events, at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/ui-events.html

   • Supporting multiple screens, at http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html

6. Chapter 6, Tools:

   • SDK manager, at https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/update.html

   • Create and manage virtual devices, at https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds.html

   • Android Emulator, at https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator.html

   • Version your app, at https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/versioning.html

7. Chapter 7, Google Play Services:

   • Google Play Services, at https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview

8. Chapter 8, Debugging:

   • Using DDMS, at https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/ddms.html

   • Reading and writing logs, at https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/index.html

   • Profiling with Traceview and dmtracedump, at https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/traceview.html

   • About Instant Run, at https://developer.android.com/studio/run/index.html

9. Chapter 9, Preparing for Release:

   • Publish your app, at https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/index.html

   • Configure your build, at https://developer.android.com/studio/build/index.html