Unlocking Android

Book Description Android is a free, open source, Java-based mobile platform developed by Google. Unlocking Android prepares the reader to embrace the Android mobile platformin easy-to-understand language and builds on this foundation with reusable Java code examples. It's ideal for corporate developers and hobby ists who have an interest, or a mandate, to deliver mobile software.

The book first covers the big picture so the reader can get comfortable with the Android approach to the mobile applications. Then the reader learns to apply Android by following the many practical examples. The book concludes withtwo deep and hands-on examples.

Unlocking Android addresses the Android application framework, its graphical capabilities and media support, data storage, communications capabilities, phone interactions, and notifications.

Unlocking Android covers Android SDK 1.x
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Content

PART 1 WHAT IS ANDROID? — THE BIG PICTURE
1. Targeting Android
2. Development environment

PART 2 EXERCISING THE ANDROID SDK
3. User interfaces
4. Intents and services
5. Storing and retrieving data
6. Networking and web services
7. Telephony
8. Notifications and alarms
9. Graphics and animation
10. Multimedia
11. Location, location, location

PART 3 ANDROID APPLICATIONS
12. Putting it all together–the Field Service Application
13. Hacking Android