Ebook: Android: a programmer's guide

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. What Is Android? -- Brief History of Embedded Device Programming -- Open Handset Alliance and Android -- Introduction to Android -- 2. Downloading and Installing Eclipse -- Why Eclipse? -- Downloading and Installing the JRE -- Downloading and Installing Eclipse -- 3. Downloading and Installing the Android SDK -- Downloading the Android SDK -- Downloading and Installing the Android Plugin for Eclipse -- Configuring the Android Plugin for Eclipse -- 4. Exploring the Android SDK -- What Is in the Android SDK? -- Android Documentation -- Android Samples -- Try This: Run the API Demos Sample Application -- Android Tools -- APIs -- Application Life Cycle -- Standard ASP Application Life Cycle -- Android Application Life Cycle -- 5. Application: Hello World! -- Creating Your First Android Project in Eclipse -- Examining the Android-Created Files -- AndroidManifest.xml -- Referenced Libraries -- Directories -- Hello World! Again -- Hello World! Using an Image -- Hello World! Code-Based UI -- Hello World! XML-Based UI -- Try This: Use TextView and ImageView -- 6. Using the Command-Line Tools and the Android Emulator -- Creating a Shell Activity Using the Windows CLI -- Running the ActivityCreator.bat -- The Project Structure -- Creating the Hello World! Activity in the Windows CLI -- Editing the Project Files -- Adding the JAVA_HOME Variable -- Compiling and Installing the Application -- Hello World! on Linux -- Configuring the PATH Statement -- Try This: Create an Image-Based Hello World! in the CLI -- 7. Using Intents and the Phone Dialer -- What Are Intents? -- Using the Dialer -- Placing a Call from Your Activity -- Adding the Intent to Your Activity -- Editing Activity Permissions -- Modifying the AndroidPhoneDialer -- Adding a Button -- Implementing an EditText View -- Try This: Modify the AndroidPhoneDialer Project -- 8. Lists, Menus, and Other Views -- Building the Activities -- Intent Code for the .xml File -- Intent Code for the .java File -- Modifying the AndroidManifest.xml -- Using the Menu -- Creating the Activity for AutoComplete -- Button -- CheckBox -- EditText -- RadioGroup -- Spinner -- Try This: Modify More View Attributes -- 9. Using the Cell Phone's GPS Functionality -- Using the Android Location-Based API -- Creating a kml File -- What Is a track File? -- Getting the nmea File in Windows -- Getting the nmea File in Linux -- Reading the GPS with the Android Location-Based API -- Creating the AndroidLBS Activity -- Passing Coordinates to Google Maps -- Adding Zoom Controls -- Try This: Toggling Between MapView's Standard and Satellite Views -- 10. Using the Google API with GTalk -- Configuring the Android Emulator for GTalk -- Implementing GTalk in Android -- Creating the Activity's Layout in the GoogleAPI.xml -- Adding Packages to GoogleAPI.java -- Implementing the View. OnClickListener -- Compiling and Running GoogleAPI -- Try This: Add a Settings Feature to Your GoogleAPI Activity -- 11. Application: Find a Friend -- Creating a SQLite Database -- Creating a Custom Content Provider -- Editing the strings.xml -- Creating Your Content Provider -- Creating the FindAFriend Activity --T.;This is a practical guide to Google's revolutionary new mobile development platform. With full coverage of the first complete, open mobile development platform, this in-depth resource takes you, step-by-step, through the process of developing applications for mobile devices in the Android environment. This book assumes you have some familiarity with Java. "Android: A Programmer's Guide" covers the properties, methods, and functions of all the layers of the Google Android SDK. You will learn how to build illustrative Android applications such as Hello World and Auto Dialer, and use the Android emulator to run and test your applications. The book is ideal for programmers, Web developers, and development students who want an introduction to the world of mobile application development through Google's open-source tools.