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Android for Beginners
Android for Beginners
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Build Android apps starting from zero programming experience

Key Features
Comprehensive coverage of Android lying more stress on examples
The book covers the topics in simple and easy form taking practical examples in each topic
Simple language, crystal clear approach, straight forward comprehensible presentation
Adopting user-friendly classroom lecture style
The concepts are duly supported by several examples
The book cover the topics in a manner which fulfilled the skill gap among industry and academia

Description
The book has been written in such a way that the concepts are explained in detail, giving adequate emphasis on examples. To make clarity of the programming examples, logic is explained properly as well as discussed using comments in program itself. The book covers the topics right from the Introduction of the Android Studio and writing programs into it. The Android topics are discussed in detail taking into consideration the practical examples from simple to complex for the better understanding of students. Various sample practical exercises are included in the Book and their solutions so as to give students the basic idea of developing apps in Android. The examples given in book are user-focused and have been highly updated including topics, figures and examples.

The book features more on practical approach with more examples covering topics from simple to complex one addressing many of the core concepts required at the beginner level.

What You Will Learn
Toasts, Activity, Dialogs, Intent, Android Life Cycle, Menus
Asynchronous Task, Recycler-view, Broadcast Receiver and Notification
Shared Preferences, Sqlite Database, Alarm Manager, Android Services, Testing Activity, Publishing App

Who This Book is For
Students pursuing BE/BSc/ME/MSc/BTech/MTech in Computer Science

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Toast
3. Activity
4. Dialogs
5. Intent
6. Android Life Cycle
7. Menus
8. Asynchronous Task
9. Recyclerview
10. Broadcast Receiver and Notification
11. Shared Preferences
12. Sqlite Database
13. Alarm manager
14. Android Services
15. Testing Activity
16. Publishing App
17. Appendix I
18. Exercise 1
19. Appendix II

About the Author
Pratiyush Guleria has done M.Tech in Computer Science with a Gold Medal, B.Tech in Information Technology and MBA Degree in Operation Research from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). He has qualified SLET (State Level Eligibility Test) and has more than nine years of experience in IT Industry and Academics. He has, to his credit, approximately 25 research papers in peer reviewed International Journals and Conferences and has been the Technical Program Committee Member and reviewer for journals and International Conferences. His research interests include Data Mining Machine Learning and Web Technologies. He is also recipient of “Young Scientist Award” for best paper presentation in one of the International Conference.

LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/pratiyush-guleria-2a944157

Language
English
ISBN
9789388176231
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Acknowledgement
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Know about Android
1.2 Let’s Start with Simple User Interface
1.3 Building Blocks of User Interface
1.4 Android Layout types
1.5 What is an Adapter?
1.6 Layout Attributes
Chapter 2 Toast
2.1 Toast
Chapter 3 Activity
3.1 Activity and Subactivity
Chapter 4 Dialogs
4.1 What is dialog?
Chapter 5 Intent
5.1 What do you mean by Intent?
5.2 Type of Intent
5.3 AndroidManifest.xml
5.4 Spinner
Chapter 6 Android Life Cycle
6.1 Android Activity Lifecycle
Chapter 7 Menus
7.1 What are menus?
Chapter 8 Asynchronous Task
8.1 What is AsyncTask?
8.2 DownloadingImageTask.java
Chapter 9 Recyclerview
9.1 Introduction
Chapter 10 Broadcast Receiver and Notification
10.1 A broadcast receiver
Chapter 11 Shared Preferences
11.1 Introduction
Chapter 12 Sqlite Database
12.1 What is Sqlite?
Chapter 13 Alarm manager
13.1 What is an Alarm Manager?
Chapter 14 Android Services
14.1 What is service
Chapter 15 Testing Activity
15.1 What are Testing Activity?
Chapter 16 Publishing App
16.1 What do you mean by Publishing an App
Appendix I
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8
Exercise 9
Exercise 10
Appendix II

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