Android How to Program, 3/e

9 Address Book App

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

• Use FragmentTransactions and the back stack to dynamically attach Fragments to and detach Fragments from the GUI.

• Use a RecyclerView to display data from a database.

• Create and open databases with SQLiteOpenHelper.

• Use a ContentProvider and a SQLiteDatabase object to interact with data in a SQLite database.

• Use a ContentResolver to invoke methods of a ContentProvider to perform tasks with a database.

• Use a LoaderManager and Loaders to perform database access asynchronously outside the GUI thread.

• Use Cursors to manipulate database query results.

• Define styles containing common GUI attributes and values, then apply them to multiple GUI components.

Outline

1. 9.1 Introduction

2. 9.2 Test-Driving ...