Android Essentials

• Main Author: Haseman, Chris (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress, 2008.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer Science.; Computer Science, general.

Android Essentials is a no–frills, no–nonsense, code–centric run through the guts of application development on Google's Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viab...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - How you should use this book
• Installing, configuration, and compiling
• Running and using the emulator and debugger
• The Android Application
• Activity
• Intent Receiver
• Service
• Content Provider
• User Interface
• XML Layout View
• Custom View
• Location Based Services - Location Location Location
• Using Google’s GPS module
• Using Android’s built-in Google maps
• Networking
• Opening the connection
• Socket connections
• XML
• Tuning Connectivity
• Wrapping up.