PREFACE

Purpose of This Text and Its Audience

Android App Development covers the essential topics of Android Development: XML resources, including styles, XML defined GUIs, programmatically defined GUI, event-driven programming, activity life cycle, how to manage several activities, transitions between activities, persistent data (including SQLite), how to manage orientation, fragments, how to make a device-independent app, and how to use an app within another app. It covers “fun” topics such as touches, swipes, graphics, sounds, and game programming. Finally, it also covers more specialized topics of interest: maps, voice recognition, ...

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