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Table of Contents
Foreword 9
About the Author 10
1 Introduction to the Android system 11
1.1 Development 11
1.2 Android and Linux 13
1.3 Open Source projects 15
1.4 Porting to user devices 17
2 The Eclipse development environment 19
2.1 The software required 19
2.2 Android Virtual Devices 21
3 Fundamentals of Android program execution 23
3.1 System components 23
3.2 The Android manifest file 25
3.3 The Android API level 26
3.4 The Android activity 28
4 The Android user interface 33
4.1 Views and ViewGroups 33
4.2 Layout files 34
4.3 Layouts 35
5 Android and Java 45
5.1 Java basics 45
5.2 Android packages 49
5.3 Data types 50
5.4 Visibility of variables and methods 50
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6 Simple Android applications 53
6.1 A first app 53
6.2 A simple calculating program 58
6.3 Selection lists 69
6.4 A stopwatch as Android app 85
6.5 Timer 91
6.6 Displaying notifications 98
6.7 Reading and writing files 99
6.8 Sending and receiving SMS text messages 105
7 Acquiring and displaying data from sensors 115
7.1 Geodata 115
7.2 Writing to the display 125
7.3 A GPS tool 131
7.4 Saving GPS tracking results 140
7.5 Data acquisition from sensors 149
7.6 Widgets for the display 160
8 Media playback on smartphones 171
8.1 Playing embedded audio files 171
8.2 Generating tone frequencies 174
8.3 Recording audio files 185
9 Apps for Web applications 193
9.1 Displaying Web pages 193
9.2 Playing Internet videos 199
9.3 Web apps in JavaScript and HTML 201
9.4 An app for Wikis 203
9.5 Database queries using HTTP 207
9.6 Socket communication 217
10 Android and Linux 223
10.1 Rights and users 223
10.2 Linux command line instructions 225
Afterword 229
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Appendix 231
Sample JavaScript source code 231
Android manifest file 239
List of sources used 240
Web links 240