14. Weather Viewer App: Web Services, JSON, Fragment
, ListFragment
, DialogFragment
, ActionBar
, Tabbed Navigation, App Widgets, Broadcast Intents
and BroadcastReceiver
s
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll:
• Use WeatherBug® web services to get the current conditions and five-day forecast for a specified city and process that data using an Android 3.x JsonReader
.
• Use Fragment
s to create reusable components and make better use of the screen real estate in a tablet app.
• Implement tabbed navigation using the Android 3.x ActionBar
.
• Create a companion app widget that can be installed on the user’s home screen.
• Broadcast changes of the app’s preferred ...
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