Learn Android App Development

by Wallace Jackson

Overview

Learn Android App Development is a hands-on tutorial and useful reference. You'll quickly get up to speed and master the Android SDK and the Java that you need for your Android Apps.

The Android SDK offers powerful features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering them—and the rest of the Andorid SDK—for programmers with some experience who are new to Android smartphone and tablet apps development. Many books introduce the Android SDK, but very few explain how to develop apps optimally. This book teaches both core Java language concepts and how to wisely but rapidly employ the design patterns and logic using the Android SDK, which is based on Java APIs.

You'll also learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient and perform well.

• Get an accelerated but complete enough treatment of the fundamentals of Java necessary to get you started.
• Design your first app using prototyping and other design methods.
• Build your first Android app using the code given over the course of the book.
• Finally, debug and distribute your first app on Google Play or other Android app store.
After reading this book, you'll have your first app ready and on the app store, earning you the prestige and the money you seek.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430257462
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	04/29/2013
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	548
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Wallace Jackson has been writing for leading multimedia publications about his work in new media content development since the advent of Multimedia Producer Magazine nearly two decades ago, when he wrote about computer processor architectures for centerfolds (removable "mini-issue" insert) distributed at SIGGRAPH. Since then, Wallace has written for several other publications about his work in interactive 3D and new media advertising campaign design, including 3D Artist,Desktop Publishers Journal, CrossMedia, AVvideo and Kiosk Magazine.

Table of Contents

• Building Your Android Software Development Environment
• Exploring Android App Development: Building Your First Hello World App using the Lingo
• A Java for Android Primer: Enhancing our Hello World Application
• Designing User Interface Layouts via Android ViewGroup and Activity Classes
• Using Intents and Events to make an Android Application Interactive
• Populating a UI Design with Android Widgets via Android’s View Class
• Introduction to Graphics Design in Android: Concepts and Techniques
• Compositing in Android: Advanced Graphical User Interface Design
• Android Image Animation: Frame Animation Using XML Constructs
• Android Vector Animation: Procedural Animation via XML Constructs
• An Introduction to Digital Video: Video Concepts and Data Optimization
• Playing Digital Video in Android Apps using the Android VideoView Class
• An Introduction to Digital Audio: Audio Concepts and Data Optimization
• Playing Digital Audio in Android Apps using the Android MediaPlayer Class
• Audio Sequencing for Android Apps using the Android SoundPool Class
• Using Services to make your Android Application Functional
• Using Broadcast Receivers to allow an Android Application to Communicate
• Using Intents to Invoke Android Inter-Application Programming
• Using Android’s SQLite Class to store and access Custom Data
• Appendix A