The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development

By Mr. Mark L Murphy

Many Android programming guides offer you the fundamentals. This book goes beyond simple apps into many areas of Android development that you simply won't find in competing books.

Whether you would like to feature home screen app widgets to your arsenal, or create more complex maps, integrate multimedia features just like the camera, integrate tightly with other applications, or integrate scripting languages, this book has you covered.

Moreover, this book has over 50 pages of Honeycomb-specific material, from dynamic fragments to integrating navigation into the action bar, to making list-based app widgets. It also features a chapter on using NFC, the wireless technology behind Google Wallet and related services.

This book is one in CommonsWare's growing series of Android-related titles, including The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development, Android Programming Tutorials, and therefore the upcoming Tuning Android Applications.

Table of Contents :

1. WebView, Inside and Out
2. Crafting Your Views
3. More Fun With ListViews
4. Creating Drawables
5. Home Screen App Widgets
6. Interactive Maps
7. Creating Custom Dialogs and Preferences
8. Advanced Fragments and therefore the Action Bar
9. Animating Widgets
10. Using the Camera
11. Playing Media
12. Handling System Events
13. Advanced Service Patterns
14. Using System Settings and Services
15. Content Provider Theory
16. Content Provider Implementation Patterns
17. The Contacts ContentProvider
18. Searching with SearchManager
19. Introspection and Integration
20. Tapjacking
21. Working with SMS
22. More on the Manifest
23. Device Configuration
24. Push Notifications with C2DM
25. NFC
26. The Role of Scripting Languages
27. The Scripting Layer for Android
28. JVM Scripting Languages
29. Reusable Components
30. Testing
31. Production

Mark Murphy is that the founding father of CommonsWare and therefore the author of the Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development. A three-time entrepreneur, his experience ranges from consulting on open source and collaborative development for the Fortune 500 to application development on almost anything smaller than a mainframe. He has been a software developer for over 25 years, from the TRS-80 to the newest crop of mobile devices. a refined speaker, Mr. Murphy has delivered conference presentations and training sessions on a good array of topics internationally.

Mr. Murphy writes the Building 'Droids column for AndroidGuys and therefore the Android Angle column for NetworkWorld.