Chapter 11. Appeal to the senses using multimedia
In this chapter
- Detecting a device’s capabilities
- Playing back multimedia files
- Using the camera
- Recording audio and video
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
The Android Market is a vibrant and diverse bazaar of applications and games. You can find applications for listening to music, editing photos, and broadcasting videos among others with a focus on multimedia of one type or another. Obviously, if you want to build an application with a similar focus, then you’ll need to master many of Android’s multimedia APIs. But what if you don’t? What if you’re among the many developers whose applications will ...
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