Android™ How to Program, Second Edition

8.1. Introduction

The Address Book app (Fig. 8.1) provides convenient access to contact information that’s stored in a SQLite database on the device. You can scroll through an alphabetical contact list and can view a contact’s details by touching the contact’s name.

a) Contact list with Paul selected

b) Details for the contact Paul

Fig. 8.1 | contact list and a selected contact’s details.

When a contact’s details are displayed, touching edit () displays a Fragment containing prepopulated EditTexts for editing the contact’s data (Fig. 8.2), and ...