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Android Studio Cookbook
About this book
Design, test, and debug your apps using Android Studio
About This Book
- See what Material design is about and how to apply it your apps
- Explore the possibilities to develop apps that works on any type of device
- A step-by-step practical guide that will help you build improved applications, change their look, and debug them
Who This Book Is For
This book is for developers that are already familiar with programming concepts and have already started creating apps for the Android platform, for example, by using the Eclipse IDE. It is for developers who intend to use Android Studio as their primary IDE or want to use Android Studio more efficiently.
What You Will Learn
- Develop Android Studio applications using Genymotion
- Apply the concepts of Material design to your applications
- Use memory monitoring tools to tweak performance
- Build applications for Android Wearable
- Capture images, video, or audio within your Android app
- Use content providers to display data
- Build apps with a cloud-based backend
- Create media-related apps that will run on phones, phablets, tablets, and TVs
In Detail
This book starts with an introduction of Android Studio and why you should use this IDE rather than Eclipse. Moving ahead, it teaches you to build a simple app that requires no backend setup but uses Google Cloud or Parse instead. After that, you will learn how to create an Android app that can send and receive text and images using Google Cloud or Parse as a backend. It explains the concepts of Material design and how to apply them to an Android app. Also, it shows you how to build an app that runs on an Android wear device.
Later, it explains how to build an app that takes advantage of the latest Android SDK while still supporting older Android versions. It also demonstrates how the performance of an app can be improved and how memory management tools that come with the Android Studio IDE can help you achieve this.
By the end of the book, you will be able to develop high quality apps with a minimum amount of effort using the Android Studio IDE.
Style and approach
This is a practical guide full of challenges and many real-world examples that demonstrate interesting development concepts. Besides smartphones and tablets, it also covers Android wearable devices and Android TV. Although strongly recommended, it is not necessary to own any Android device yourself.
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Android Studio Cookbook
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Welcome to Android Studio
Introduction
Reasons why we should use Android Studio
Fragmentation
Creating your first app called Hello Android Studio
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
The use of Gradle build scripts
There's more...
See also
Testing your app with an emulator called Genymotion
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Refactoring your code
How to do it…
How it works...
See also
2. Applications with a Cloud-based Backend
Introduction
Setting up Parse
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Consuming data from the cloud
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Submitting data to the cloud
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works...
There's more...
See also
3. Material Design
Introduction
Reycler views and card views
Getting ready
How to do it...
Using card views
There's more...
Ripples and elevations
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
See also
Great transitions
Getting ready
How to do it…
Theming
How it works...
There's more...
4. Android Wear
Wearables
Fullscreen wearable app
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
See also
Watch faces
Getting ready
How to do it…
There's more...
Notifications
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
See also
5. Size Does Matter
Size and context
Phone, phablet, and tablet
Getting ready
How to do it...
Glue it together!
There's more...
Media playback
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
TV and media centre
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
See also
6. Capture and Share
Introduction
Capturing images the easy way
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Image capturing using the Camera2 API
Getting ready
How to do it...
Collapsing all methods
Adding the sepia effect
There's more...
Image sharing
Getting ready
How to do it...
Orientation issues
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
See also
7. Content Providers and Observers
Introduction
Content providers
There's more...
Design patterns
RxJava
See also
Consuming and updating data using a content provider – daily thoughts
Getting ready
How to do it...
Queries
Loader manager
See also
Change projections to display KPIs in your app
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
Communicate with other apps using content providers
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
See also
8. Improving Quality
Introduction
Patterns and support annotations
MVC
MVP
The observer pattern
The factory pattern
The singleton
Support annotations
Google Play services
Getting ready
How to do it...
Leaderboards
Let the game begin!
There's more...
See also
Unit testing using Robolectric
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Espresso
Approaches
Cucumber, Gherkin, and Calabash
First things first!
See also
Code analysis
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
9. Improving Performance
Introduction
Memory profilers and performance tools
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
See also
Here comes the bad app – performance improvements
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Overdraw issues
Getting ready
How to do it...
What layout type to use?
There's more...
See also
10. Beta Testing Your Apps
Introduction
Build variants
Getting ready
How to do it...
Build variants
Build types
There's more...
Runtime permissions
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Play Store beta distribution
Getting ready
How to do it...
Rate your app
Have a break
There's more...
Index
Android Studio Cookbook
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Mike van Drongelen
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About the Author
Mike van Drongelen started developing software from the very first moment he had access to a computer. At the age of nine, he started programming in an obscure Basic variant. Currently, he works as a mobile solution consultant in the Netherlands. Besides this, he also runs his own start-up. He speaks English, Dutch, German, and a little French, but most of the time, he speaks Java, JavaScript, HTML, Objective C, Swift, C#, and ASP.NET. He develops Android, iOS, and .NET solutions for various customers and has some...
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