Android Programming The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Bill Phillips, Chris Stewart, Kristin Marsicano (z-lib.org)

Color evaluation Listing 32.11  Pulling out sunset colors (SunsetFragment.java) public class SunsetFragment extends Fragment { . ...

Chapter 32  Property Animation that tells ObjectAnimator what value is, say, a quarter of the way between a start value and end ...

Playing Animators Together For more sophisticated animation choreography, this will not do the trick. For example, to complete t ...

Chapter 32  Property Animation For the More Curious: Other Animation APIs While property animation is the most broadly useful to ...

33. Locations and Play Services In this chapter, you will start writing a new app called Locatr that performs a Flickr geosearch ...

Chapter 33  Locations and Play Services Locations and Libraries To see why, let’s talk a bit about what your average Android dev ...

Creating Locatr Creating Locatr Now to get started. In Android Studio, create a new project called Locatr. Create an empty activ ...

Chapter 33  Locations and Play Services Your AVD emulator also needs to have a target OS version that supports the Google APIs. ...

Mock location data The easiest way to do that is to open the browser app in your emulator and type in the URL (Figure 33.4). Fig ...

Chapter 33  Locations and Play Services MockWalker will trigger a mock walk for you via a service that posts mock location data ...

Building Out Locatr Building Out Locatr Time to create your interface. First, add a string for your search button in res/values/ ...

Chapter 33  Locations and Play Services Now create a Fragment subclass called LocatrFragment that hooks up your layout and pulls ...

Setting Up Google Play Services Now hook it up in LocatrActivity. Delete everything inside this class and replace it, like so: L ...

Chapter 33  Locations and Play Services Next, you need to verify that Play Services is available. Since the working parts live i ...

Using Google Play Services Listing 33.7  Adding permissions (AndroidManifest.xml) <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.and ...

Chapter 33  Locations and Play Services Once you do that, you need to connect to the client. Google recommends always connecting ...

Flickr Geosearch Listing 33.11  Listening for connection events (LocatrFragment.java) @Override public void onCreate(Bundle save ...

Chapter 33  Locations and Play Services Listing 33.13  New searchPhotos(Location) (FlickrFetchr.java) public List searchPhotos(S ...

Getting a Location Fix When you first create a LocationRequest, it will be configured for accuracy within a city block, with rep ...

Chapter 33  Locations and Play Services Run your app and press the search button. Sadly, your dramatic red error indicator will ...