Morris J. - Android User Interface Development. Beginner’s Guide [2011, PDF, ENG] + Code

Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Developing a Simple Activity
Chapter 2: Presenting Data for Views
Chapter 3: Developing with Specialized Android Widgets
Chapter 4: Leveraging Activities and Intents
Chapter 5: Developing Non-linear Layouts
Chapter 6: Validating and Handling Input Data
Chapter 7: Animating Widgets and Layouts
Chapter 8: Designing Content-centric Activities
Chapter 9: Styling Android Applications
Chapter 10: Building an Application Theme
Appendix: Pop quiz answers
Index

•Preface
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•Chapter 1: Developing a Simple Activity
◦Developing our first example
◦Creating the project structure
◦Time for action – setting up the Android SDK
◦Time for action – starting a new project
■Examining the Android project layout
◦Time for action – running the example project
◦The screen layout
■The layout XML file
■Resource selection qualifiers
◦Time for action – setting up the question activity
◦Populating a View and a ViewGroup
◦Time for action – asking a question
◦Time for action – adding a space for answers
◦Time for action – adding more buttons
■Defining common dimensions
◦Limitations of the layout XML format
◦Populating the QuestionActivity
◦Time for action – writing more Java code
◦Dynamically creating widgets
◦Time for action – putting the questions on the screen
◦Handling events in Android
◦Summary
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•Chapter 2: Presenting Data for Views
◦Listing and selecting data
■ListView choice modes
■No selection mode – CHOICE_MODE_NONE
■Single selection mode – CHOICE_MODE_SINGLE
■Multiple selection mode – CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE
■Adding header and footer widgets
■Creating a simple ListView
◦Time for action – creating a fast food menu
■Styling the standard ListAdapters
■Defining standard dimensions
◦Time for action – improving the restaurant list
■Creating custom adapters
■Creating a menu for The Burger Place
◦Time for action – creating a Burger item layout
◦Time for action – presenting Burger objects
■Creating TheBurgerPlaceActivity class
◦Time for action – implementing TheBurgerPlaceActivity
■Registering and starting TheBurgerPlaceActivity
◦Using the ExpandableListView class
■Creating ExpandableListAdapter implementations
◦Using the GridView class
◦Time for action – creating the fruit icon
■Displaying icons in a GridView
◦Time for action – building the fruit menu
◦Time for action – creating the FourBucketsActivity
◦Summary
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•Chapter 3: Developing with Specialized Android Widgets
◦Creating a restaurant review application
◦Time for action – creating the robotic review project structure
◦Building a TabActivity
■Creating tab icons
■Android tabs and icons
◦Implementing the ReviewActivity
◦Time for action – writing the ReviewActivity class
◦Time for action – creating the Review layout
■Working with switcher classes
◦Time for action – turning on the TextSwitcher
◦Creating a simple photo gallery
◦Time for action – building the Photos tab
■Creating a thumbnail widget
■Implementing a GalleryAdapter
◦Time for action – the GalleryAdapter
◦Time for action – making the gallery work
◦Building the reservation tab
◦Time for action – implementing the reservation layout
◦Time for action – initializing the reservation tab
◦Time for action – listening to the SeekBar
◦Time for action – selecting date and time
◦Creating complex layouts with Include, Merge, and ViewStubs
■Using Include tags
■Merging layouts
■Using the ViewStub class
◦Summary
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•Chapter 4: Leveraging Activities and Intents
◦Exploring the Activity class
■Using Bundle objects
◦Time for action – building an example game: "guess my number"
◦Creating and consuming intents
■Defining Intent actions
■Passing data in an Intent
■Adding extra data to an Intent
◦Using advanced Intent features
■Getting data back from an Intent
◦Time for action – viewing phone book contacts
◦Summary
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•Chapter 5: Developing Non-linear Layouts
◦Time for action – creating a layouts example project
◦FrameLayout
■Common uses
◦Time for action – developing a FrameLayout example
◦Table Layout
■Common uses
■Using TableLayout for a memory game
◦Time for action – developing a simple memory game
◦AbsoluteLayout/Custom Layouts
■Developing your own Layouts
◦Time for action – creating a custom layout
■Using the CircleLayout
◦Time for action – finishing the CircleLayout example
◦RelativeLayout
■Common uses
■Integrating the RelativeLayout
◦Time for action – creating a contact editor
◦Time for action – integration with the layout example
◦SlidingDrawer
■Common uses
■Creating a SlidingDrawer example
◦Time for action – creating a SlidingDrawer
◦Time for action – sliding drawer integration
◦Summary
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•Chapter 6: Validating and Handling Input Data
◦Dealing with undesirable input
■Correctly labeling input
■Signaling undesirable input
■Recovering from undesirable input
■Giving users direct feedback
◦Avoiding invalid input entirely
■Capturing date and time
■Using spinners and ListView for selection
■Changing the data set
■Disabling selections
■Capturing text input
■Autocompleting text input
◦Building activities for results
◦Generic filtering search Activity
◦Time for action – creating the ListItemSelectionActivity
◦Time for action – creating an ArrayAdapter
◦Time for action – creating the CursorAdapter
◦Time for action – setting up the ListView
◦Time for action – filtering the list
◦Time for action – returning the selection
■Using the ListItemSelectionActivity
◦Summary
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•Chapter 7: Animating Widgets and Layouts
◦Using standard Android animations
◦Time for action – animating a news feed
◦Using flipper and switcher widgets
■Using the ImageSwitcher and TextSwitcher implementations
■Animating layout widgets
◦Time for action – animating a GridView
■Creating Custom Animations
◦Time for action – writing a custom animation
◦Time for action – making a Button vanish
◦Summary
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•Chapter 8: Designing Content-centric Activities
◦Considering design options when displaying content on an Android device
■Considering user behavior
■Drawing user attention
◦Displaying content with the WebView class
■Using a WebView object
◦Time for action – creating a recipe viewer application
■Taking WebView further
◦Creating relative layouts for content display
■Taking full advantage of RelativeLayout
■Considering Android layout constraints
■Styling TextView objects
◦Time for action – developing specialized content views
◦Developing an online music store
■Designing the music store
■Developing the music store
◦Time for action – building a track item
◦Time for action – developing the main user interface layout
◦Time for action – developing the main user interface Java code
◦Summary
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•Chapter 9: Styling Android Applications
◦Working with style resources
◦Using shape resources
■How shapes behave
■Rendering lines
◦Time for action – drawing a broken line
■Rendering rectangles
◦Time for action – creating a rounded border
■Rendering ovals
◦Time for action – applying a gradient to an oval shape
■Rendering rings
◦Time for action – rendering a spinner ring
■Defining layers
◦Stretching using nine-patch images
■Creating nine-patch images
◦Using bitmap images in Android
■Handling different screen sizes
■Handling different screen densities
◦Handling configuration changes
■Providing landscape layouts
■Providing text input on a landscape layout
■Altering screen content
◦Summary
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•Chapter 10: Building an Application Theme
◦Creating a basic calculator layout
■Designing a standard calculator
◦Time for action – building the standard calculator
◦Building the calculator styling
◦Time for action – creating the button images
◦Time for action – styling the calculator buttons
◦Time for action – styling the display
◦Scientific landscape layout
■Defining string resources for the scientific layout
■Styling the scientific layout
■Building the scientific layout
◦Time for action – coding the scientific layout
■Handling the Activity restart
◦Supporting hardware keyboards
◦Adding in display animations
◦Time for action – animating the display
◦Summary
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•Appendix: Pop quiz answers
◦Chapter 1
■Layouts as XML fles
■Populating an activity
◦Chapter 2
■List views and adapters
◦Chapter 3
■Gallery objects and ImageViews
◦Chapter 4
■Intents & Activities
◦Chapter 5.
■Custom layouts
◦Chapter 6
■Text input
◦Chapter 8
■The WebView widget
■WebView versus native layouts
◦Chapter 10
■Layout resources
■Nine-Patch Images
■Android resources
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•Index