July 2011
Beginner to intermediate
512 pages
12h 4m
English
book
Sams Teach Yourself Android™ Application Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition
by Lauren Darcey, Shane Conder
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Index
A
acceleration, 386
accessing
Android Developer website, 454
applications
functionality, 52
preferences, 51
author’s website, 455
hardware, 386
applying Wi-Fi, 387
Bluetooth, 387
managing power, 387
reading raw sensor data, 386–387
LBS applications, 259–260
network applications, 274–276
publisher’s website, 454
raw resource files, 156–157
accounts, developers
benefits of, 429
registering (Android Market), 422–423
acquiring target devices, 395–396
ACTION_CREATE_LIVE_FOLDER, 385
ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE, 241
ACTION_RINGTONE_PICKER, 380
activities
applications
applying, 52–56
implementing, 109–110
defining, 91–92
dialogs, 189
customizing, 196–201
DatePickerDialog class, 192–195
tracing life cycles of, 191–192
types of, 190–191
launching, 53, ...
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