Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Conventions Used in This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 2 How This Book Is Organized 3 Part I: Getting Started with Your First Android Application 3 Part II: Building and Publishing Your First Android Application 3 Part III: Creating a Feature-Rich Application 3 Part IV: Android Is More than Phones 3 Part V: The Part of Tens 4 Icons Used in This Book 4 Beyond the Book 4 Part I: Getting Started with Your First Android Application 7 Chapter 1: Developing Spectacular Android Applications 9 Why Develop for Android? 9 Android Development Basics 12 Hardware Tools 20 Software Tools 22 Chapter 2: Prepping Your Development Headquarters 25 Developing the Android Developer Inside You 25 Assembling Your Toolkit 26 Tuning Up Your Hardware 30 Installing and Configuring Your Support Tools 31 Installing Android Studio 31 Installing Java 7 33 Adding SDK Packages 33 Navigating the Android SDK 34 Specifying Android Platforms 34 Using SDK Tools for Everyday Development 35 Part II: Building and Publishing Your First Application 39 Chapter 3: Your First Android Project 41 Starting a New Project in Android Studio 41 Responding to Errors 45 Setting Up an Emulator 47 Running the Hello Android App 49 Understanding Project Structure 52 Chapter 4: Creating the User Interface 65 Creating the Silent Mode Toggle Application 65 Laying Out the Application 67 Adding an Image to Your Application 71 Creating a Launcher Icon for the Application 75 Previewing the Application in the Visual Designer 77 Chapter 5: Coding Your Application 79 Understanding Activities and the Activity Lifecycle 79 Creating Your First Activity 84 Working with the Android Framework Classes 88 Installing Your Application 92 Material Design 96 Uh-Oh! (Responding to Errors) 98 Thinking Beyond the Application Boundaries 103 Chapter 6: Understanding Android Resources 107 Understanding Resources 107 Working with Resources 110 Different Strokes for Different Folks: Using Resource Qualifier Directories 114 Chapter 7: Turning Your Application into an App Widget 119 Working with App Widgets in Android 120 Working with Intents and Pending Intents 122 Creating the App Widget 127 Placing Your Widget on the Home Screen 137 Chapter 8: Publishing Your App to the Google Play Store 139 Creating a Distributable File 139 Creating a Google Play Developer Profile 145 Pricing Your Application 148 Getting Screen Shots for Your Application 149 Uploading Your Application to the Google Play Store 150 Watching the Number of Installs Soar 153 Part III: Creating a Feature-Rich Application 155 Chapter 9: Designing the Tasks Application 157 Reviewing the Basic Requirements 157 Creating the Application''s Screens 159 Chapter 10: Creating the Task Detail Page 181 Creating the TaskEditActivity 181 Linking the List View to the Edit View 183 Creating the TaskEditFragment 185 You Put the Fragment in the Activity and Shake It All Up 193 Updating the Styles 194 A Special Bonus 196 Chapter 11: Going a la Carte with Your Menu 199 Understanding Options and Context Menus 199 Creating Your First Menu 200 Creating a Long-Press Action 207 Chapter 12: Handling User Input 211 Creating the User Input Interface 211 Getting Choosy with Dates and Times 214 Creating an Alert Dialog 225 Validating Input 230 Chapter 13: Getting Persistent with Data Storage 233 Finding Places to Put Data 233 Understanding How the SQLite ContentProvider Works 236 Creating Your Application''s SQLite Database 237 Using ContentProvider URIs 241 Dealing with CRUD 244 Implementing the Save Button 250 Implementing the List View 253 Reading Data into the Edit Page 261 Chapter 14: Reminding the User 265 Seeing Why You Need AlarmManager 266 Asking the User for Permission 266 Waking Up a Process with AlarmManager 267 Updating a Notification 274 Clearing a Notification 274 Rebooting Devices 275 Chapter 15: Working with Android Preferences 279 Understanding the Android Preferences Framework 280 Understanding the Preference Fragment Class 280 Creating Your Preferences Screen 283 Working with the Preference Fragment Class 285 Working with Preferences in Your Activities at Runtime 289 Part IV: Android Is More than Phones 293 Chapter 16: Developing for Tablets 295 Considering the Differences between Phones and Tablets 295 Tweaking the Tasks App for Tablets 296 Configuring a Tablet Emulator 301 Creating a New Product Flavor 302 Creating an AndroidManifest for Phones 303 Creating an AndroidManifest for Tablets 305 Making the TaskListAndEditorActivity for Tablets 307 Building the Tablet App 310 Adding the App Callbacks 312 One More Thing 313 Chapter 17: Supporting Older Versions of Android 315 Understanding AppCompat 316 Updating the build File 317 Adding the Toolbar 318 Using the AppCompat Theme 319 Testing Your App 321 Working with Right-to-Left Languages 323 Fixing the Add Task Menu 325 Fixing the Window Options 326 Using Newer APIs 329 Using Android Lint 330 Chapter 18: Wearing the Tasks App 333 Preparing Your Development Environment 335 Creating a New Wear App 339 Publishing the Data from Your Phone 350 Running the App without Android Studio 355 Packaging the App 356 What''s Next? 356 Chapter 19: Look Ma, I''m on TV! 357 Understanding Guidelines for Building TV Apps 357 Building and Manifesting Changes 358 Adding the BrowseActivity 360 Creating the TV Browse Fragment 361 Creating the CardPresenter 368 Running Your App 371 Adding and Editing Items 372 Creating Backgrounds 373 Creating More Filters 375 Chapter 20: Moving beyond Google 381 Working around Google Features 381 Setting Up the Fire SDK 382 Setting Up Your Fire or Emulator 383 Publishing to Amazon Appstore for Android 386 Part V: The Part of Tens 393 Chapter 21: Ten Free Sample Applications and SDKs 395 Android Samples 395 The Google I/O App 396 K9 Mail 396 GitHub Android App 396 Facebook SDK for Android 396 Notepad Tutorial 397 U+2020 397 Lollipop Easter Egg 397 Android Bootstrap 398 The AOSP 398 Chapter 22: Ten Tools to Simplify Your Development Life 399 Android Lint 399 Android Systrace 399 RoboGuice and Dagger 400 Translator Toolkit 400 Hierarchy Viewer 401 UI/Application Exerciser Monkey 401 Git and GitHub 401 Picasso and OkHttp 402 Memory Analyzer Tool 402 Travisci 402 Index 403.