Android Cookbook: Problems and Solutions for Android Developers, 2nd Edition

This cookbook doesn’t just teach you how to build Android apps; it also gives you the recipes you need to build real-world applications. Written by the author of the best-selling Java Cookbook, and with contributions from many members of the Android community, this book shows you how to do everything: working with multitouch, dealing with the phone (and the camera, accelerometer, GPS, and other built-in devices), working with web services, packaging an app for sale in the Android Market, and more.

This revised second edition includes new recipes on JSON, material design, and Android Studio IDE. If this book doesn’t show you how to do it, you probably don’t need it. The Android is gradually overtaking the iPhone as the hottest platform in mobile computing. Make sure you’re on the bandwagon.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Designing a Successful Application
Chapter 3 Application Testing
Chapter 4 Inter-/Intra-Process Communication
Chapter 5 Graphics
Chapter 6 Graphical User Interface
Chapter 7 GUI Alerts: Menus, Dialogs, Toasts, Snackbars, and Notifications
Chapter 8 Other GUI Elements: Lists and Views
Chapter 9 Multimedia
Chapter 10 Data Persistence
Chapter 11 Telephone Applications
Chapter 12 Networked Applications
Chapter 13 Gaming and Animation
Chapter 14 Social Networking
Chapter 16 Location and Map Applications
Chapter 16 Accelerometer
Chapter 17 Bluetooth
Chapter 18 System and Device Control
Chapter 19 All the World’s not English: Strings and Internationalization
Chapter 20 All the World’s not English: Strings and Internationalization
Chapter 21 Packaging, Deploying, and Distributing/Selling Your App