Android Programming The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

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Table of Contents
Learning Android
- Prerequisites
- How to Use This Book
- How This Book Is Organized
  - Challenges
  - Are you more curious?
- Code Style
- Typographical Conventions
- The Necessary Tools
  - The ADT Bundle
Chapter 1 Your First Android Application
- App Basics
- Creating an Android Project
- Navigating in Eclipse
- Laying Out the User Interface
- From Layout XML to View Objects
  - Resources and resource IDs
- Wiring Up Widgets
- Running on the Emulator
- For the More Curious: Android Build Process
  - Android build tools
Chapter 2 Android and Model-View-Controller
- Creating a New Class
  - Generating getters and setters
- Model-View-Controller and Android
  - Benefits of MVC
- Updating the View Layer
- Updating the Controller Layer
- Running on a Device
  - Connecting your device
  - Configuring your device for development
- Adding an Icon
  - Adding resources to a project
  - Referencing resources in XML
- Challenges
- Challenge: Add a Listener to the TextView
- Challenge: Add a Previous Button
- Challenge: From Button to ImageButton
Chapter 3 The Activity Lifecycle
- Logging the Activity Lifecycle
  - Making log messages
  - Using LogCat
- Rotation and the Activity Lifecycle
  - Device configurations and alternative resources
- Saving Data Across Rotation
  - Overriding onSaveInstanceState(Bundle)
- The Activity Lifecycle, Revisited
- For the More Curious: Testing onSaveInstanceState(Bundle)
- For the More Curious: Logging Levels and Methods
Chapter 4 Debugging Android Apps
- The DDMS Perspective
- Exceptions and Stack Traces
- File Explorer
- Android-Specific Debugging
  - Using Android Lint
  - Issues with the R class
Chapter 5 Your Second Activity
- Setting Up a Second Activity
- Starting an Activity
  - Communicating with intents
- Passing Data Between Activities
  - Using intent extras
  - Getting a result back from a child activity
- How Android Sees Your Activities
- Challenge
Chapter 6 Android SDK Versions and Compatibility
- Android SDK Versions
- Compatibility and Android Programming
- Using the Android Developer Documentation
- Challenge: Reporting the Build Version
Chapter 7 UI Fragments and the Fragment Manager
- The Need for UI Flexibility
- Introducing Fragments
- Starting CriminalIntent
- Hosting a UI Fragment
- Creating a UI Fragment
  - Defining CrimeFragment’s layout
  - Creating the CrimeFragment class
- Adding a UI Fragment to the FragmentManager
  - Fragment transactions
  - The FragmentManager and the fragment lifecycle
- The Reason All Our Activities Will Use Fragments
- For the More Curious: Developing for Honeycomb, ICS, Jelly Bean, and Beyond
Chapter 8 Creating User Interfaces with Layouts and Widgets
- Upgrading Crime
- Updating the Layout
- Wiring Widgets
- More on XML Layout Attributes
- Using the Graphical Layout Tool
- Challenge: Formatting the Date
Chapter 9 Displaying Lists with ListFragment
- Updating CriminalIntent’s Model Layer
  - Singletons and centralized data storage
- Creating a ListFragment
- An Abstract Activity for Hosting a Fragment
  - A generic fragment-hosting layout
  - An abstract Activity class
- ListFragment, ListView, and ArrayAdapter
  - Creating an ArrayAdapter<T>
  - Responding to list item clicks
- Customizing List Items
  - Creating the list item layout
  - Creating an adapter subclass
Chapter 10 Using Fragment Arguments
- Starting an Activity from a Fragment
- Fragment Arguments
  - Attaching arguments to a fragment
  - Retrieving arguments
- Reloading the List
- Getting Results with Fragments
Chapter 11 Using ViewPager
- Creating CrimePagerActivity
- For the More Curious: How ViewPager Really Works
Chapter 12 Dialogs
- Creating a DialogFragment
  - Showing a DialogFragment
  - Setting a dialog’s contents
- Passing Data Between Two Fragments
  - Passing data to DatePickerFragment
  - Returning data to CrimeFragment
- Challenge: More Dialogs
Chapter 13 Audio Playback Using MediaPlayer
- Adding Resources
- Defining the layout for HelloMoonFragment
  - Manually resetting the app theme
- Creating HelloMoonFragment
- Using a Layout Fragment
- Audio Playback
  - Wiring buttons to play and stop
- Challenge: Pausing Audio Playback
- For the More Curious: Playing Video
- Challenge: Playing Video in HelloMoon
Chapter 14 Retained Fragments
- Retaining a Fragment
- Rotation and Retained Fragments
- Retained Fragments: As Nice as All That?
- Rotation Handling and onSaveInstanceState(Bundle)
- For the More Curious: Rotation Before Fragments
Chapter 15 Localization
- Localizing Resources
  - Default resources
- Configuration Qualifiers
- More Resource Rules and Regulations
  - Resource naming
  - Resource directory structure
- Testing Alternative Resources
Chapter 16 The Action Bar
- Options Menus
- Enabling Ancestral Navigation
  - Enabling the app icon
  - Responding to the Up button
- An Alternative Menu Item
- Challenge: An Empty View for the List
Chapter 17 Saving and Loading Local Files
- Saving and Loading Data in CriminalIntent
  - Saving crime data to a JSON file
  - Loading crimes from the filesystem
- Challenge: Use External Storage
- For the More Curious: The Android Filesystem and Java I/O
  - Accessing files and directories
Chapter 18 Context Menus and Contextual Action Mode
- Defining a Context Menu Resource
- Implementing a Floating Context Menu
- Implementing Contextual Action Mode
- Compatibility: Fallback or Duplicate?
- Challenge: Deleting from CrimeFragment
- For the More Curious: ActionBarSherlock
- Challenge: Using ActionBarSherlock
Chapter 19 Camera I: Viewfinder
- Creating the Fragment Layout
- Creating CrimeCameraFragment
- Creating CrimeCameraActivity
  - Adding activity and camera permissions to the manifest
- Using the Camera API
- For the More Curious: Running Activities from the Command Line
Chapter 20 Camera II: Taking Pictures and Handling Images
- Taking a Picture
  - Implementing Camera callbacks
  - Setting the picture size
- Passing Data Back to CrimeFragment
- Updating the Model Layer
- Updating CrimeFragment’s View
  - Adding an ImageView
  - Image handling
- Showing Larger Image in a DialogFragment
- Challenge: Crime Image Orientation
- Challenge: Deleting Photos
- For the More Curious: Deprecation in Android
Chapter 21 Implicit Intents
- Adding Buttons
- Adding a Suspect to the Model Layer
- Using a Format String
- Using Implicit Intents
- Challenge: Another Implicit Intent
Chapter 22 Two-Pane Master-Detail Interfaces
- Adding Layout Flexibility
- Activity: Fragment Boss
  - Fragment callback interfaces
- For the More Curious: More on Determining Device Size
Chapter 23 More About Intents and Tasks
- Setting Up NerdLauncher
- Resolving an Implicit Intent
- Creating Explicit Intents at Runtime
- Tasks and the Back Stack
- Using NerdLauncher as a Home Screen
- Challenge: Icons, Reordering Tasks
- For the More Curious: Processes vs. Tasks
Chapter 24 Styles And Includes
- Setting Up the RemoteControl Project
  - Setting up RemoteControlActivity
  - Setting up RemoteControlFragment
- Cleaning Up with Styles
- Finishing the Layout
- For the More Curious: include and merge
- Challenge: Style Inheritance
Chapter 25 XML Drawables And 9-Patches
- XML Drawables
- State List Drawables
- Layer List and Inset Drawables
- Using 9-Patch Images
Chapter 26 HTTP & Background Tasks
- Creating PhotoGallery
- Networking Basics
  - Asking permission to network
- Using AsyncTask to Run on a Background Thread
- You and Your Main Thread
  - Beyond the main thread
- Fetching XML From Flickr
  - Using XmlPullParser
- From AsyncTask Back to the Main Thread
- For the More Curious: More on AsyncTask
  - Cleaning Up AsyncTasks
- Challenge: Paging
Chapter 27 Loopers, Handlers, and HandlerThread
- Preparing GridView for Displaying Images
- Downloading Lots of Small Things
- Communicating with the Main Thread
- Assembling a Background Thread
- Messages and Message Handlers
- For the More Curious: AsyncTask vs. Threads
- Challenge: Preloading and Caching
Chapter 28 Search
- Searching Flickr
- The Search Dialog
- Using SearchView on Post-Android 3.0
- Challenges
Chapter 29 Background Services
- Creating an IntentService
- What Services Are For
  - Safe background networking
- Looking for New Results
- Delayed Execution with AlarmManager
  - PendingIntent
  - Managing alarms with PendingIntent
- Controlling Your Alarm
  - Updating options menu items
- Notifications
- For the More Curious: Service Details
Chapter 30 Broadcast Intents
- Waking Up on Boot
  - Broadcast receivers in the manifest
  - How to use receivers
- Filtering Foreground Notifications
- Receivers and Long-running Tasks
Chapter 31 Browsing The Web & WebView
- One Last Bit of Flickr Data
- The Easy Way: Implicit Intents
- The Harder Way: WebView
  - Using WebChromeClient to spruce things up
  - Proper rotation with WebView
- For the More Curious: Injecting JavaScript Objects
Chapter 32 Custom Views and Touch Events
- Setting Up the DragAndDraw Project
  - Setting up DragAndDrawActivity
  - Setting up DragAndDrawFragment
- Creating a Custom View
  - Creating BoxDrawingView
- Handling Touch Events
  - Tracking across motion events
- Rendering Inside onDraw(…)
- Challenge: Rotations
Chapter 33 Tracking the Device’s Location
- Getting Started with RunTracker
  - Setting up RunActivity
  - Setting up RunFragment
- Locations and the LocationManager
- Receiving Broadcast Location Updates
- Updating the UI with Location Data
- Faster Answers: the Last Known Location
- Testing Locations on Real and Virtual Devices
Chapter 34 Local Databases with SQLite
- Storing Runs and Locations in a Database
- Querying a List of Runs From the Database
- Displaying a List of Runs Using CursorAdapter
- Creating New Runs
- Working with Existing Runs
- Challenge: Identifying the Current Run
Chapter 35 Loading Asynchronous Data With Loaders
- Loaders and the LoaderManager
- Using Loaders in RunTracker
- Loading the List of Runs
- Loading a Single Run
- Loading the Last Location for a Run
Chapter 36 Using Maps
- Adding the Maps API to RunTracker
- Showing the User’s Location on a Map
- Displaying a Run’s Path
- Adding Markers for Run Start and Finish
- Challenge: Live Updates
Chapter 37 Afterword
- The Final Challenge
- Shameless Plugs
- Thank You
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