Android™ 3 SDK Programming For Dummies®

Index

•Symbols•

> (closing bracket), 133

… (ellipses), 175

| (or) operator, 130, 176

•A•

AbsoluteLayout class, 53

abstract class, 185

access control, 230

access point, Wi-Fi, 258

accessibility, 109

Account activity, 48

AccountFragment element, 70–72

ACL (Android Compatibility Language), 66

Action Bar

basic description of, 21–22

placing menu item on, 62

Active activity state, 77

activity

affinity, 87

basic description of, 20–21, 46–47

coordinating, 80

declaring in AndroidManifest.xml file, 49–50

differentiating by theme use, 181

event listener, 54–55

fl ow of, 47–48

handling user interaction in, 58–59

implementing, 50

invocation message, 50

layout, embedding fragment in, 68–73

life cycle, 76–80

map, 253

menu linked to, 60

persistent activity state, 79, 83

stacked, 86

starting, 80–82

state, 77

step implemented by, 21

switching between, 21

task to manage behavior of, 85–87

transient state, 83–85

transition, 77, 79

UI implementation, 50–56

view, 116

Activity base class, 50

Activity Manager, 18

Address class, 265

address, e-mail, 268–269

ADT (Android Development Tools) plug-in

functionality, 32–33

installation, 33–34

affinity, 87

AIDL-supporting service, 87

alignment, widget, 150–152

alpha channel, 160

Amazon Appstore for Android

cloud-based service, 339

legal relationship with, 338–339

sign-up process, 338

Amazon SNS (Amazon Simple Notifications Service), 339

Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage), 339

Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service), 339

Amazon Web Service (AWS), 339

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