Android Development Tools for Eclipse (ISBN: 9781782161103) by Sanjay Shah and Khirulnizam Abd Rahman, available now.
The book oerview:
- Build Android applications using ADT for Eclipse
- Generate Android application skeleton code using wizards
- Advertise and monetize your applications
http://www.packtpub.com/android-development-tools-for-eclipse/book
Read more for the chapter listing
Chapter 1: Installing Eclipse, ADT, and SDK
- Introducing the Android platform
- What is Android?
- Introducing the Android app
- What is Dalvik Virtual?
- Understanding API level
- How many versions (distributions) Android has?
- Preparing for Android development
- Installing the JDK
- Installing the Android SDK
- Installing the Eclipse (Juno)
- Installing the ADT in Eclipse Juno
- Linking the Android SDK to the Eclipse
- Summary
Chapter 2: Important Features of the IDE
- Project explorer
- Code editor
- Graphical layout editor
- Android manifest editor
- Menu editor
- Resources editor
- XML resources editor
- Graphical user interface designer
- The configuration chooser
- The screen layout designer
- Properties window
- Debugging pane
- Dalvik Debug Monitor Server (DDMS)
- SDK manager
- Android virtual device manager
- Running the Application
- Getting help
- Summary
Chapter 3: Creating a New Android Project
- Creating a new Android application project
- String resources
- Using the graphical layout designer
- The XML layout code editor
- Widget interactions through the source code editor
- Toast message
- Running the application on the emulator
- Running the application on an Android device
- Summary
Chapter 4: Incorporating Multimedia Elements
- Adding a TableLayout
- Adding the image resources
- Adding ImageView
- Adding ImageButtons
- Assigning the widget's ID
- ImageButtons and handling event
- Adding audio
- Adding another screen in the app
- Adding HTML to WebView
- Intent and Activity
- The final product run and test
- Summary
Chapter 5: Adding RadioButton, CheckBox, Menu, and Preferences
- Creating a new project
- Adding a RadioGroup, RadioButton, and a TextField
- Adding a CheckBox
- Adding a menu
- Defining the Strings
- Defining the Preference screen
- Hook up
- Binding the menu and Preference
- Getting values from Preferences
- Run the application
- Summary
Chapter 6: Handling Multiple Screen Types
- Using wrap_content and match_parent
- Fragment
- Defining Fragment and Landscape layout
- Hook up in the Main Layout file
- Running the application
- Optimizing for tablet
- Persisting the state information during the state transition
- Summary
Chapter 7: Adding an External Library
- Creating an account at the AdMob website
- Adding Site/Application
- Choosing the Ad Network Mediation
- Adding AdMob SDK to the project
- Making changes in the manifest file
- Adding the AdMob widget/view in the layout file
- Running the application
- Summary
Chapter 8: Signing and Distributing APK
- APK – Android package
- Preparing for release
- Compilation for release
- Generating a private key
- Signing
- Alignment
- Using the Eclipse ADT for release
- Publishing to Google Play
- Getting help
- Summary
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