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Android Programming for Beginners

Android Programming for Beginners

By : John Horton
3.8 (13)
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Android Programming for Beginners

Android Programming for Beginners

3.8 (13)
By: John Horton

Overview of this book

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 in order to learn Android, you must know Java. If so, then this book is for you. This new and expanded second edition of Android Programming for Beginners will be your companion to create Android Pie applications from scratch. We will introduce you to all the fundamental concepts of programming in an Android context, from the basics of Java to working with the Android API. All examples use the up-to-date API classes, and 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 and store your user's data with SQLite. In addition, you'll see how to make your apps multilingual, draw to the screen with a finger, 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.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
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Index

Handling different versions of Android

Most of the time throughout this book, we haven't paid any attention to supporting older Android devices, the main reason being that all the up-to-date parts of the API we have been using work on such a high percentage of devices (in excess of 95%) that it has not seemed worthwhile. Unless you intend to carve out a niche in apps for ancient Android relics, this seems like a sensible approach. In regard to playing of sounds, however, there have been some relatively recent modifications to the Android API.

Actually, this isn't immediately a big deal because devices that are newer than this can still use the old parts of the API. But it is good practice to specifically handle these differences in compatibility, because eventually, one day, the older parts might not work on newer versions of Android.

The main reason for discussing this here and now is that the slight differences in pre- and post-Android Lollipop sound handling gives us a good...

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