Contents

preface xvii
preface to the first edition xix
acknowledgments xxi
about this book xxiv
about the cover illustration xxix

Part 1 What is Android?—The Big Picture

Chapter 1 Introducing Android: The Android platform; Understanding the Android market; The layers of Android; The Intent of Android development; Four kinds of Android components; Understanding the AndroidManifest.xml file; Mapping applications to processes; Creating an Android application; Summary
Chapter 2 Android’s development environment: Introducing the Android SDK; Exploring the development environment; Building an Android application in Eclipse; Using the Android emulator; Debugging your application; Summary

Part 2 Exercising the Android SDK

Chapter 3 User interfaces: Creating the Activity; Working with views; Using resources; Exploring the AndroidManifest file; Summary
Chapter 4 Intents and Services: Serving up RestaurantFinder with Intent; Checking the weather with a custom URI; Checking the weather with broadcast receivers; Building a background weather service; Communicating with the WeatherAlertService from other apps; Summary
Chapter 5 Storing and retrieving data: Using preferences; Using the filesystem; Persisting data to a database; Working with ContentProvider classes; Summary
Chapter 6 Networking and web services: An overview of networking; Checking the network status; Communicating with a server socket; Working with HTTP; Web services; Summary
Chapter 7 Telephony: Exploring telephony background and terms; Accessing telephony information; Interacting with the phone; Working with messaging: SMS; Summary
Chapter 8 Notifications and alarms: Introducing Toast; Introducing notifications; Introducing Alarms; Summary
Chapter 9 Graphics and animation: Drawing graphics in Android; Creating animations with Android’s Graphics API; Introducing OpenGL for Embedded Systems; Summary
Chapter 10 Multimedia: Introduction to multimedia and OpenCORE; Playing audio; Playing video; Capturing media; Recording video; Summary
Chapter 11 Location, location, location: Simulating your location within the emulator; Using LocationManager and LocationProvider; Working with maps; Converting places and addresses with Geocoder; Summary

Part 3 Android applications

Chapter 12 Putting Android to work in a field service application: Designing a real-world Android application; Mapping out the application flow; Application source code; Source code for managing jobs; Server code; Summary
Chapter 13 Building Android applications in C: Building Android apps without the SDK; Solving the problem with dynamic linking; What time is it? The DayTime Server2; Daytime Client; Summary

Part 4 The maturing platform

Chapter 14 Bluetooth and sensors: Exploring Android’s Bluetooth capabilities; Interacting with the SensorManager; Building the SenseBot application; Summary
Chapter 15 Integration: Understanding the Android contact model; Getting started with LinkedIn; Managing contacts; Keeping it together; Creating a LinkedIn account; Synchronizing to the backend with SyncAdapter; Wrapping up: LinkedIn in action; Summary
Chapter 16 Android web development: What’s Android web development?; Optimizing web applications for Android; Storing data directly in the browser; Building a hybrid application; Summary
Chapter 17 AppWidgets: Introducing the AppWidget; Introducing SiteMonitor; SiteMonitor application architecture; AppWidget data handling; Implementing the AppWidgetProvider; Displaying an AppWidget with RemoteViews; Configuring an instance of the AppWidget; Updating the AppWidget; Tying it all together with AndroidManifest.xml; Summary
Chapter 18 Localization: The need for localization; Exploring locales; Strategies for localizing an application; Leveraging Android resource capabilities; Localizing in Java code; Formatting localized strings; Obstacles to localization; Summary
Chapter 19 Android Native Development Kit: Introducing the NDK; Building an application with the NDK; Building the JNI library; Building the user interface; Integrating the NDK into Eclipse; Summary