Android 5 Programming

212 Pages·2015·3.51 MB·English

Android 5 Programming
by Example
Turn your ideas into elegant and powerful mobile
applications using the latest Android Studio for the
Android Lollipop platform
Kyle Mew
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Android 5 Programming by Example
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About the Author
Kyle Mew has been programming since the early 80s and has written for several
technology websites. He has also written three radio plays and another book on
Android development, Android 3.0 Application Development Cookbook, published by
Packt Publishing.
I would like to thank Rhonda for the photographs.
About the Reviewers
Mustafa Gezen is a Norwegian developer who develops applications for both
Android and iOS devices. His early experiences with programming have helped
him develop amazing stuff. He likes to take things apart and make them function
differently. He has experience in Python, Objective-C, Java, PHP and some other
languages. His main field of interest is runtime code modification.
I would like to thank my amazing family for supporting me in what
I do, always believing in me, and putting their trust in me.
Olivier Goutay is an expert in Android application development. With more than
3 years of professional experience, he currently takes part in healthcare and open
source Android developments in San Francisco. He currently works for Omada
Health, the lead start-up in chronic disease prevention in the U.S.
Before this, he was involved with major French and European Bank mobile services
and developed tomorrow's technologies, which are now used by many people on
their mobile devices.
His specialties are Android development, software security, software architecture,
and iOS.
Ten Wong is an embedded software engineer at Seeed Studio, an open source
hardware company. He has 3 years of experience in Android driver and framework.
He also has experience in TV Android app development and Arduino open source
hardware shield.
I would like to thank my wife for supporting me in reviewing
this book.
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Table of Contents
Preface v
Chapter 1: Setting Up the Development Environment 1
What is Android 5? 2
Lollipop from a user's perspective 2
Lollipop from a developer's perspective 3
Material Design 3
Other devices 3
Installing and configuring the development environment 4
Installing the SDK 5
Managing the SDK tools 6
Creating a "Hello World" app 9
Testing the app on a physical device 11
Setting up a virtual device 11
Monitoring devices 13
Summary 14
Chapter 2: Building a UI 15
Applying a Material Design theme 16
Adding animated widgets 20
Designing an XML layout 20
Controlling the widget behavior with Java 25
Creating alternative layouts 29
Summary 31
Chapter 3: Activities and Fragments 33
Adding a CardView widget 34
Adding images and text to the layout 37
Creating a second Activity 40
Applying Fragments 43
Adding static Fragments 49
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