Head First Android Development

Dawn Griffiths started life as a mathematician at a top UK university where she was awarded a First-Class Honours degree in Mathematics. She went on to pursue a career in software development, and has over 15 years experience working in the IT industry. Dawn has written several books, including Head First C, Head First Statistics and Head First 2D Geometry.

David Griffiths began programming at age 12, after being inspired by a documentary on the work of Seymour Papert. At age 15 he wrote an implementation of Papert's computer language LOGO. After studying Pure Mathematics at University, he began writing code for computers and magazine articles for humans and he is currently an agile coach with Exoftware in the UK, helping people to create simpler, more valuable software. He spends his free time traveling and time with his lovely wife, Dawn.

Chapter 1 Getting Started: Diving In
Chapter 2 Building Interactive Apps: Apps That Do Something
Chapter 3 Multiple Activities and Intents: State Your Intent
Chapter 4 The Activity Lifecycle: Being an Activity
Chapter 5 The User Interface: Enjoy the View
Chapter 6 List Views and Adapters: Getting Organized
Chapter 7 Support Libraries and App Bars
Chapter 8 Fragments
Chapter 9 Fragments for Larger Interfaces
Chapter 10 Dynamic Fragments
Chapter 11 Design Support Library
Chapter 12 Card Views and Recycler Views
Chapter 13 Navigation Drawers
Chapter 14 SQLite Databases
Chapter 15 Basic Cursors
Chapter 16 Cursors and Asynctasks
Chapter 17 Started Services
Chapter 18 Bound Services
Appendix A ART: The Android Runtime
Appendix B ADB: The Android Debug Bridge
Appendix C The Android Emulator
Appendix D Leftovers: The Top Ten Things (we didn’t cover)