Composing mobile apps: learn, explore, apply
- New Delhi Wiley India Pvt. Ltd. 2014
- xviii, 266 p.
Table of content Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Mobility and Android
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Mobility Panorama
1.3 Mobile Platforms
1.4 App Development Approaches
1.5 Android Overview
Chapter 2 Getting Started with Android
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Setting up Development Environment
2.3 Saying Hello to Android
2.4 Traversing an Android App Project Structure
2.5 Logical Components of an Android App
2.6 Android Tool Repository
2.7 Installing and Running App Devices
Chapter 3 Learning with an Application - 3CheersCable
3.1 Introduction
3.2 3CheersCable App
3.3 Mobile App Development Challenges
3.4 Tenets of a Winning App
Part II Building Blocks
Chapter 4 App User Interface
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Activity
4.3 UI Resources
4.4 UI Elements and Events
4.5 Let’s Apply
4.6 Interaction among Activities
4.7 Let’s Apply
4.8 Fragments
4.9 Let’s Apply
4.10 Action Bar
4.11 Let’s Apply
Chapter 5 App Functionality - Beyond UI
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Threads
5.3 AsyncTask
5.4 Let’s Apply
5.5 Service
5.6 Notifications
5.7 Intents and Intent Resolution
5.8 Broadcast Receivers
5.9 Telephony and SMS
5.10 Let’s Apply
Chapter 6 App Data - Persistence and Access
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Flat Files
6.3 Shared Preferences
6.4 Let’s Apply
6.5 Relational Data
6.6 Data Sharing Across Apps
6.7 Enterprise Data
6.8 Let’s Apply
Part III Sprucing Up
Chapter 7 Graphics and Animation
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Android Graphics
7.3 Android Animation
7.4 Let’s Apply
Chapter 8 Multimedia
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Audio, Video and Images
8.3 Playback 185
8.4 Let’s Apply
8.5 Capture and Storage
Chapter 9 Location Services and Maps
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Google Play Services
9.3 Location Services
9.4 Maps
Chapter 10 Sensors
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Sensors in Android
10.3 Android Sensor Framework
10.4 Motion Sensors
10.5 Position Sensors
10.6 Environment Sensors
10.7 Let’s Apply
Part IV Moving To Market
Chapter 11 Testing Android Apps
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Testing Android App Components
11.3 App Testing Landscape Overview
Chapter 12 Publishing Apps
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Groundwork
12.3 Configuring
12.4 Packaging
12.5 Distributing
References
Index
Composing Mobile Apps attempts to present various mobile app development approaches and technologies along with required hands-on knowledge to deal with the nitty-gritties of designing, developing, validating, packaging and publishing them. A live mobile app has been built incrementally throughout the book using Android.