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Learning Android intents : explore and apply the power of intents in Android application development /
The book will take an easy-to-follow and engaging tutorial approach, providing a practical and comprehensive way to learn Android intents. If you are a novice or an intermediate Android Developer who wants to expand their knowledge of Android Intents, this book is ideal for you. Readers are expected...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Pub.,
2014.
©2014 |
| Colección: | Community experience distilled.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Understanding Android; Introducing Android; Exploring the different versions of Android; Google Play
- the official app store for Android; Understanding the whys and whens of Android; The evolution of Android OS; Official IDE from Google
- the Android Studio; Features of Android Studio; Limitations of Android Studio; Building blocks of an Android application; Coding components; Media components; The assets folder; The res folder; XML components; The layout folder
- The menu folderThe values folder; AndroidManifest.xml; Referencing components; Library components; Android Activity lifecycle; Fundamental states of an activity; The callback methods of the Activity lifecycle; The activity lifecycle flow; Summary; Chapter 2: Introduction to Android Intents; Role of intents in an Android Application; Role of intents in Android Activities; Role of intents in data transfer between activities; Role of intents in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth transfer; Role of intents in Android Camera; Role of intents in GPS Sensor; Role of intents in sending SMS/MMS
- Role of intents in Mobile CallsRole of intents in e-mail and social network posts; Role of intents in Android Services; Role of intent in Broadcast Receiver; Role of intent in time zones; Role of intent in Status Bar; Intent
- a technical overview; The Coding component; The XML component; Implementation of Android Intents for Activity Navigation; Understanding the flow; Part one
- MainActivity.java; Part two
- MySecondActivity.java; Part three
- activity_main.xml; Part four
- activity_two_layout.xml; Part five
- AndroidManifest.xml; Other constructors of the android.content. Intent class
- Intent()Intent(intent o); Intent(Context c, Class cls); Intent(String action); Intent(String action, URI uri); Getting results from Android Intents; Understanding with an example; Going deep into the example; Explaining the code; Structure of an intent; Component; Actions; Data; Extras; Summary; Chapter 3: Intent and Its Categorization; Explicit intents; Using explicit intents in an Android application; Starting an activity through an explicit intent; Starting a service through an explicit intent; Implicit intents; Using implicit intents in an Android application
- Sharing content using implicit intentsSelecting an image through an implicit intent; Intents and Android late binding; Summary; Chapter 4: Intents for Mobile Components; Common mobile components; The Wi-Fi component; The Bluetooth component; The Cellular component; Global Positioning System (GPS) and geo-location; The Geomagnetic field component; Sensor components; Motion sensors; Position sensors; Environmental sensors; Components and intents; Communication components; Using Bluetooth through intents; Using Wi-Fi through intents; Media components; Using intents to take pictures