Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Book Description

Android continues to be one of the leading mobile OS and development platforms driving today’s mobile innovations and the apps ecosystem. Android appears complex, but offers a variety of organized development kits to those coming into Android with differing programming language skill sets.

Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach guides you step-by-step through a wide range of useful topics using complete and real-world working code examples.

In this book, you’ll start off with a recap of Android architecture and app fundamentals, and then get down to business and build an app with Google’s Android SDK at the command line and Eclipse. Next, you’ll learn how to accomplish practical tasks pertaining to the user interface, communications with the cloud, device hardware, data persistence, communications between applications, and interacting with Android itself. Finally, you’ll learn how to leverage various libraries and Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) to help you perform tasks more quickly, how to use the Android NDK to boost app performance, and how to design apps for performance, responsiveness, seamlessness, and more.

Instead of abstract descriptions of complex concepts, in Android Recipes, you’ll find live code examples. When you start a new project, you can consider copying and pasting the code and configuration files from this book, then modifying them for your own customization needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch!

What you’ll learn

• Discover Android architecture and various Android-specific APIs
• How to develop a unit conversion app in the context of command-line/Android SDK and Eclipse/Android SDK environments
• How to accomplish various tasks related to the user interface and more
• How to use external libraries to save time and effort
• How to quickly develop an app using the Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) tool
• How to boost app performance by using the Android NDK
• Guidelines for designing filtered apps, performant apps, responsive apps, and seamless apps

Who this book is for

Newcomers to Android, as well as more accomplished Android developers.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Android
2. User Interface Recipes
3. Communications and Networking
4. Interacting with Device Hardware and Media
5. Persisting Data
6. Interacting with the System
7. Working with Libraries
8. Scripting Layer for Android
9. Android NDK
10. App Design Guidelines

中文：

书名：Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

安卓仍然是推动当今移动创新和应用生态系统的领先移动操作系统和开发平台之一。Android看起来很复杂，但为那些拥有不同编程语言技能的人提供了各种有组织的开发工具包。

Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach 使用完整的真实工作代码示例指导您逐步了解各种有用的主题。

在这本书中，你将从回顾Android体系结构和应用程序基础开始，然后开始做生意，并在命令行使用谷歌的Android SDK和Eclipse构建一个应用程序。接下来，您将学习如何完成与用户界面、与云通信、设备硬件、数据持久性、应用程序之间的通信以及与Android本身交互相关的实际任务。最后，您将学习如何利用Android(SL4A)的各种库和脚本层来帮助您更快地执行任务，如何使用Android NDK来提高应用程序的性能，以及如何设计性能、响应速度和无缝程度等方面的应用程序。

不是对复杂概念的抽象描述，而是 Android Recipes, 您将找到实时代码示例。当您开始一个新项目时，您可以考虑复制并粘贴本书中的代码和配置文件，然后根据您自己的定制需求对其进行修改。与从头创建项目相比，这可以为您节省大量工作！

What you’ll learn

• 了解Android架构和各种特定于Android的API
• 如何在命令行/Android SDK和Eclipse/Android SDK环境下开发单位转换应用程序
• 如何完成与用户界面相关的各种任务以及更多
• How to use external libraries to save time and effort
• 如何使用针对Android(SL4A)的脚本层工具快速开发应用程序
• How to boost app performance by using the Android NDK
• Guidelines for designing filtered apps, performant apps, responsive apps, and seamless apps

这本书是为谁而写的

Android的新手，以及更有成就的Android开发人员。

Table of Contents

1. Android入门
2. 用户界面处方
3. 通信和网络
4. 与设备硬件和媒体交互
5. Persisting Data
6. 与系统交互
7. 使用库
8. Android脚本层
9. Android NDK
10. 应用程序设计指南