Muhammad Imran Alam: Manning: Unlocking Android

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Manning: Unlocking Android: "Unlocking Android
A Developer's Guide"

contents

foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the cover illustration

Part 1 What is Android? — The Big Picture

1 Targeting Android: 1.1 Introducing Android; 1.2 Stacking up Android; 1.3 Booting Android development; 1.4 An Android application; 1.5 Summary
2 Development environment: 2.1 The Android SDK; 2.2 Fitting the pieces together; 2.3 Building an Android application in Eclipse; 2.4 The Android Emulator; 2.5 Debugging; 2.6 Summary

3 User interfaces: 3.1 Creating the Activity; 3.2 Working with views; 3.3 Using resources; 3.4 Understanding the AndroidManifest file; 3.5 Summary
4 Intents and services: 4.1 Working with Intent classes; 4.2 Listening in with broadcast receivers; 4.3 Building a Service; 4.4 Performing Inter-Process Communication; 4.5 Summary
5 Storing and retrieving data: 5.1 Using preferences; 5.2 Using the filesystem; 5.3 Persisting data to a database; 5.4 Working with ContentProvider classes; 5.5 Summary
6 Networking and web services: 6.1 An overview of networking; 6.2 Checking the network status; 6.3 Communicating with a server socket; 6.4 Working with HTTP; 6.5 Web services; 6.6 Summary
7 Telephony: 7.1 Telephony background and terms; 7.2 Accessing telephony information; 7.3 Interacting with the phone; 7.4 Working with messaging: SMS; 7.5 Summary
8 Notifications and alarms: 8.1 Introducing Toast; 8.2 Introducing notifications; 8.3 Alarms; 8.4 Summary
9 Graphics and animation: 9.1 Drawing graphics in Android; 9.2 Animations; 9.3 Summary
10 Multimedia: 10.1 Introduction to multimedia and OpenCORE; 10.2 Playing audio; 10.3 Playing video; 10.4 Capturing media; 10.5 Summary
11 Location, location, location: 11.1 Simulating your location within the emulator; 11.2 Using LocationManager and LocationProvider; 11.3 Working with maps; 11.4 Converting places and addresses with Geocoder; 11.5 Summary

12 Putting it all together–the Field Service Application: 12.1 Field Service Application requirements; 12.2 Android application tour; 12.3 Android code; 12.4 Digging deeper into the code; 12.5 Server code; 12.6 Summary
13 Hacking Android: 13.1 The Android/Linux:junction; 13.2 A better way; 13.3 What time is it?; 13.4 Daytime Client; 13.5 Summary