Android Programming The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 3rd Edition

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Table of Contents

Learning Android ........................................................................................................... xix
Prerequisites .......................................................................................................... xix
What’s New in the Third Edition? ............................................................................. xix
How to Use This Book ............................................................................................. xx
How This Book Is Organized .................................................................................... xx
Challenges ..................................................................................................... xxi
Are you more curious? .................................................................................... xxi
Code Style ............................................................................................................. xxi
Typographical Conventions ...................................................................................... xxii
Android Versions ................................................................................................... xxii
The Necessary Tools ..................................................................................................... xxiii
Downloading and Installing Android Studio .............................................................. xxiii
Downloading Earlier SDK Versions ......................................................................... xxiii
A Hardware Device ............................................................................................... xxiv

1. Your First Android Application ........................................................................................ 1
   App Basics ............................................................................................................... 2
   Creating an Android Project ........................................................................................ 3
   Navigating in Android Studio ...................................................................................... 8
   Laying Out the UI ..................................................................................................... 9
   The view hierarchy .......................................................................................... 13
   Widget attributes ............................................................................................. 14
   Creating string resources ................................................................................... 15
   Previewing the layout ....................................................................................... 16
   From Layout XML to View Objects ........................................................................... 17
   Resources and resource IDs ............................................................................... 18
   Wiring Up Widgets .................................................................................................. 21
   Getting references to widgets ............................................................................. 22
   Setting listeners ............................................................................................... 23
   Making Toasts ......................................................................................................... 25
   Using code completion ..................................................................................... 26
   Running on the Emulator .......................................................................................... 27
   For the More Curious: Android Build Process .............................................................. 30
   Android build tools .......................................................................................... 31
   Challenges .............................................................................................................. 32
   Challenge: Customizing the Toast ............................................................................... 32


2. Android and Model-View-Controller ............................................................................... 33
   Creating a New Class ............................................................................................... 34
   Generating getters and setters ............................................................................ 35
   Model-View-Controller and Android ........................................................................... 37
   Benefits of MVC ............................................................................................. 38
   Updating the View Layer .......................................................................................... 39
   Updating the Controller Layer ................................................................................... 41
   Running on a Device ............................................................................................... 46
   Connecting your device .................................................................................... 46
   Configuring your device for development ............................................................ 46

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