Android 3 SDK Programming For Dummies

Rajiv Ramnath , PhD, is Director of Practice at the Collaborative for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation and Associate Director for the Institute of Sensing Systems at The Ohio State University. He teaches software engineering at OSU and assists with interdisciplinary curriculum development. Roger Crawfis and Paolo Sivilotti are also professors in the computer science department at The Ohio State University.

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting the Android SDK to Work 7 Chapter 1: Taking a Quick Look at Mobile Applications on Android 9 Chapter 2: Setting Up an Android Development Environment 27 Chapter 3: Making Apps Using the Android SDK 43 Part II: Building the Core of an Android Application 101 Chapter 4: Determining the Appropriate SDK for Your Application 103 Chapter 5: Designing a User-Friendly Application 115 Chapter 6: Enhancing Your Layout with Widgets, Styles, and Themes 157 Chapter 7: Designing Your Application's Logic and Data 183 Part III: Making Your Applications Fit for the Enterprise 209 Chapter 8: Making Your Application Fast and Responsive 211 Chapter 9: Making Your Application Safe and Secure 227 Part IV: Enhancing the Capabilities of Your Android Application 241 Chapter 10: Channeling the Outside World through Your Android Device 243 Chapter 11: Harnessing the Capabilities of Your Android Device 267 Part V: Effectively Developing, Testing, and Publishing Apps 297 Chapter 12: Effectively Using Your Integrated Development Environment 299 Chapter 13: Selling Your Application on the Market 321 Part VI: The Part of Tens 343 Chapter 14: The Ten Best Developer Resources for Android 345 Chapter 15: The Ten Most Illustrative Applications for Android 355 Index 371