Android™ Tablet Application Development For Dummies®

Index

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accelerometer

Amazed game, 333

functionality, 15–16

Access File Location permission, 90

accessing

files, 17

Home screen, 153

resources, 186

accounts

Android Market, 198–199

Google account, 198–199

Google Checkout Merchant Account, 206

action bar, 235–236

active installs, 211

active/running state of activity, 112

activities

active/running state, 112

activity group, 111

bundle, 117

configuration changes, 116

content view, 117

create and resuming state, 112

creating, 112, 116–117

defined, 30, 111–112

entire lifetime, 114

event handlers, 118–120

event listeners, 117

events, 118

foreground lifetime, 114

Fragments, 114

how they work, 112

intents, 229

life cyle, 113–115

MainActivity.java file, 116–117

managing, 112

methods, 114–116

naming patterns, 62

paused state, 112

retrieving values from previous activities, 230

stacks, 112

states, 112

stopped state, 112

touch events, 118

user input, 117

values, 230

visible lifetime, 114

Activity class, 111, 317

Activity manager, 38

adapter pattern, 270–271

adding

app widgets to the Home screen, 180, 182

classes, 122

images, 163–166

add-ons folder (Android SDK), 52

AdMob, 205

AdSense (Google), 205

ADT (Android Development Tools)

Eclipse IDE, 48–50

installing, 48–50

why you need it, 41, 48

ADT Export wizard, 194

Agile Medicine, 25

AlarmManager class, 216, 295–298

alarms

broadcasting, 298–299

CPU wake lock, 296, 300–302

creating, 216

persisting, 302–303

rebooting devices, 303–306

resetting, 303–306

setting, 296–298

AlertDialog class, 257 ...