Android Tablet Development Recipes

This book helps experienced Android developers leverage the latest Android 4.x features to build powerfully compelling tablet applications. Tightly focused on Android 4.x's advanced tablet-related capabilities, it presents an extraordinary library of easy-to-reuse example code. Drawing on his extensive experience building production-quality Android tablet apps, James Becwar skips the basics Android developers already know, and helps them leverage the skills they already have. His modular approach is organized around real-world problem solving, enabling developers to find practical solutions fast - even where those solutions require the use of multiple classes together. Coverage includes: * Leveraging Android 4.x's dramatic tablet UI improvements: new UI design techniques, fragments, the Action Bar, and new widgets * Providing user control via the System Clipboard, Drag and Drop, Notifications, and Loaders * Implementing graphics via animators, hardware accelerated 2D, Renderscript 3D, and Camera Toys * Utilizing lower-level improvements to Bluetooth, media file transfer, threading, DRM support, sensors, and more * Integrating web and phone features * Porting small-screen apps * Using cutting-edge features: in-app billing, NFC, speech recognition, and more