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Android Programming for Beginners

Learn all the Java and Android skills you need to start making powerful mobile applications

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jan 2025
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Description

Learn all the Java and Android skills you need to start making powerful mobile applications

Key Features

  • Kick-start your Android programming career, or just have fun publishing apps to the Google Play marketplace
  • A first-principles introduction to Java, via Android, which means you’ll be able to start building your own applications from scratch
  • Learn by example and build three real-world apps and over 40 mini apps throughout the book

Book Description

Android is the most popular OS in the world. There are millions of devices accessing tens of thousands of applications. It is many people's entry point into the world of technology; it is an operating system for everyone. Despite this, the entry-fee to actually make Android applications is usually a computer science degree, or five years’ worth of Java experience.

Android Programming for Beginners will be your companion to create Android applications from scratch—whether you’re looking to start your programming career, make an application for work, be reintroduced to mobile development, or are just looking to program for fun. We will introduce you to all the fundamental concepts of programming in an Android context, from the Java basics to working with the Android API. All examples are created from within Android Studio, the official Android development environment that helps supercharge your application development process.

After this crash-course, we’ll dive deeper into Android programming and you’ll learn how to create applications with a professional-standard UI through fragments, make location-aware apps with Google Maps integration, and store your user’s data with SQLite. In addition, you’ll see how to make your apps multilingual, capture images from a device’s camera, and work with graphics, sound, and animations too.
By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to start building your own custom applications in Android and Java.

What you will learn

  • Master the fundamentals of coding Java for Android
  • Install and set up your Android development environment
  • Build functional user interfaces with the Android Studio visual designer
  • Add user interaction, data captures, sound, and animation to your apps
  • Manage your apps' data using the built-in Android SQLite database
  • Find out about the design patterns used by professionals to make top-grade applications
  • Build, deploy, and publish real Android applications to the Google Play marketplace

Who this book is for

Are you trying to start a career in programming, but haven’t found the right way in? Do you have a great idea for an app, but don’t know how to make it a reality? Or maybe you’re just frustrated that “to learn Android, you must know java.” If so, Android Programming for Beginners is for you. You don’t need any programming experience to follow along with this book, just a computer and a sense of adventure.

Table of Contents

  1. Building the first app
  2. Java first contact
  3. Exploring Android Studio
  4. Designing Android layouts
  5. Implementing Android layouts
  6. Life and times of an Android app
  7. Java basics part 1
  8. Java basics part 2
  9. Classes and Object oriented programming
  10. Every thing's a class
  11. Widget mania
  12. Having a dialogue with the user
  13. Handling and displaying arrays of data
  14. Handling data with Arrays and ArrayList
  15. Android Intent and Persistence
  16. I like to move it, move it
  17. Is it a little quiet around here?
  18. Design Patterns, Fragments and the Real World
  19. Using multiple fragments
  20. Paging and Swiping
  21. Paging, swiping and the simple gallery app
  22. Starting the "Where it's snap" app introducing Navigation Drawer
  23. Capturing images with the camera
  24. SQL, databases and CRUD
  25. Adding a database to 'Where it's snap'
  26. Integrating Google Maps
  27. Upgrading "Where it's snap" to add locations and maps
  28. Learning threads, touches and drawing with a simple game
  29. Publishing our apps
  30. Before you go
https://github.com/packtpublishing/android-programming-for-beginners
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-903-5
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 698
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Programming and languages
BISAC subjects:
COM051280,
COM051460,
COM051000
Thema subjects:
UMX,
UMS,
UM

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