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Learning Android Application Development

You're reading from Learning Android Application Development Start building for the world's most popular mobile platform

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785286117

Length 320 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Authors (2):

Raimon Ràfols Montane

Laurence Dawson

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Android Development FREE CHAPTER

2. Activities and Fragments - The Backbone of Your App

3. Working with Views – Interacting with Your App

4. Lists and Adapters

5. Remote Data

6. Image Management

7. Permanent Data

8. Testing Your Application

9. Publishing Your Application

10. Monetization – Make Money with Your App

Activities

Google describes an activity as an application component that provides a screen for a user to interact with. An Activity can be used to display information, call someone, or to even play a game. As mentioned earlier, a typical Android app consists of multiple activities and allows a user to navigate through them (an example of this is shown in the following screenshot). These Activities represent the basic building blocks of an application and knowing how to create and manage activities is fundamental to Android development. The following screenshot shows an example of navigating from a list activity to detail activity on an Android device. For more information, visit http://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities.html.

Activities

Each activity can contain a set of views and even fragments presenting information to users and to allow users to interact with the application. The preceding list-detail pattern is common among Android apps and can be seen in the stock apps provided...

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Authors (2)

Dawson

Dawson

Laurence Dawson is a software developer and an academic focused on mobile development. He received a PhD in 2015 from Durham University, developing efficient parallel implementations of algorithms for GPUs using NVIDIA CUDA with an emphasis on metaheuristics and image processing. Laurence currently runs his own mobile software development company and is also a guest lecturer at King's College London, teach software engineering modules. You can follow his projects on his GitHub page at https://github.com/laurencedawson.

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Ràfols Montane

Ràfols Montane

Raimon Ràfols is a Software Engineer currently living in the Barcelona area. He has been working on mobile devices since the early ages: from monochrome devices to the current smartphones. In all these years he worked in several areas: B2C/B2E/B2B apps, portals and mobile gaming. Due to this broad experience, he has expertise in many technologies and, especially in UI, build systems and client-server communications. He is currently working as Engineering Manager at AXA Group Solutions in Barcelona, taking care of all the engineering and development processes, mobile application quality and leading a small R&D team. In the past, he has been working abroad for Imagination Technologies near London and for Service2Media in the Netherlands. In his spare time he enjoys taking part in hackathons, photography and giving talks in conferences. Raimon has won more than 40 international awards including AngelHack Barcelona 2015, Facebook World Hack Barcelona and 2nd place at js1k 2016. He has been speaking about Java/Android performance and bytecode, Android custom views and about entrepreneurship in several conferences around the world. I would like to thank my girlfriend for her support and understanding during the late night and lengthy writing weekends. Also, I would like to thank my parents and cousin, as without their support and encouragement, I would not be doing what I do today. Last, but not least, I would like to thank everyone that challenged me and help me grow up during my professional career. People like Carlos Carrasco, Alfred Ferrer, Pau Vivancos, Miquel Barceló, David Domingo, Marcel Roorda, Diego Morales, Alberto Chamorro, Teun van Run, Tom van Wietmarschen, Josep Cedó, Joanne Pupo, Jordi Valldaura, Mathieu Sivade, Chris Jakob, Tomas Kustrzynski, Bartłomiej Żarnowski, Radosław Holewa and those I have forgotten to mention here.

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