The Table of Contents

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• Key Android Concepts
• Choosing Your Development Toolchain
• Tutorial #1 - Installing the Tools
• Android and Projects
• Tutorial #2 - Creating a Stub Project
• Getting Around Android Studio
• Contents of Android Projects
• Introducing Gradle and the Manifest
• Tutorial #3 - Manifest Changes
• Some Words About Resources
• Icons
• Tutorial #4 - Adjusting Our Resources
• The Theory of Widgets
• The Android User Interface
• Basic Widgets
• Debugging Your App
• The Classic Container Classes
• Other Common Widgets and Containers
• Tutorial #5 - Creating a Layout
• GUI Building, Continued
• AdapterViews and Adapters
• The WebView Widget
• Defining and Using Styles
• Dependencies
• Tutorial #6 - Adding a Library
• Introducing ConstraintLayout
• RecyclerView
• The Action Bar
• Vector Drawables
• Tutorial #7 - Setting Up the Action Bar
• Android’s Process Model
• Activities and Their Lifecycles
• Tutorial #8 - Setting Up An Activity
• The Tactics of Fragments
• Tutorial #9 - Starting Our Fragments
• Swiping with ViewPager
• Tutorial #10 - Rigging Up a ViewPager
• Resource Sets and Configurations
• Material Design Basics
• Dealing with Threads
• Requesting Permissions
• Assets, Files, and Data Parsing
• Tutorial #11 - Adding Simple Content
• Tutorial #12 - Displaying the Book
• Using Preferences
• Tutorial #13 - Using Some Preferences
• SQLite Databases
• Tutorial #14 - Saving Notes
• Internet Access
• Intents, Intent Filters
• Broadcasts and Broadcast Receivers
• Tutorial #15 - Sharing Your Notes
• Services and the Command Pattern
• Tutorial #16 - Updating the Book
• Tutorial #17 - Supporting Large Screens
• Backwards Compatibility Strategies and Tactics
• System Services
• Google Play Services
• Getting Help
• Working with Library Modules
• Gradle and Tasks
• Gradle Build Variants
• Manifest Merger Rules
• Signing Your App
• Distribution
• Writing a Gradle Plugin
• Code Generation
• Advanced Gradle for Android Tips
• Testing with JUnit4
• Testing with Espresso
• Testing with UI Automator
• Measuring Test Coverage
• Unit Testing
• MonkeyRunner and the Test Monkey
• Java 8 Lambda Expressions
• Rx Basics
• Notifications
• Advanced Notifications
• Multi-Window Support
• Advanced ConstraintLayout
• GridLayout
• Dialogs and DialogFragments
• Advanced ListViews
• Action Modes
• Other Advanced Action Bar Techniques
• Toolbar
• AppCompat: The Official Action Bar Backport
• The Android Design Support Library
• Advanced RecyclerView
• Advanced Uses of WebView
• The Input Method Framework
• Fonts and Text
• Rich Text
• Animators
• Legacy Animations
• Custom Drawables
• Mapping with Maps V2
• Crafting Your Own Views
• Advanced Preferences
• Custom Dialogs and Preferences
• Progress Indicators
• More Fun with Pagers
• Focus Management and Accessibility
• Miscellaneous UI Tricks
• Event Bus Alternatives
• Tasks
• The Assist API (“Now On Tap”)
• The Autofill API
• The Data Binding Framework
• Drag and Drop
• Keyboard and Mouse Input
• Viewing PDFs
• Home Screen App Widgets
• Adapter-Based App Widgets
• Publishing Slices
• Hosting Slices
• Advanced Permissions
• Restricted Profiles and UserManager
• Device Authentication
• Keys and the Keystore
• Miscellaneous Security Techniques
• Content Provider Theory
• Content Provider Implementation Patterns
• The Loader Framework
• The ContactsContract and CallLog Providers
• The CalendarContract Provider
• The MediaStore Provider
• Consuming Documents
• Providing Documents
• Encrypted Storage
• Packaging and Distributing Data
• Advanced Database Techniques
• Data Backup
• NetCipher
• Miscellaneous Network Topics
• Audio Playback
• Audio Recording
• Video Playback
• Using the Camera via 3rd-Party Apps
• Working Directly with the Camera
• Media Routes
• Supporting External Displays
• Google Cast and Chromecast
• The “Ten-Foot UI”
• Putting the TVs All Together: Decktastic
• Creating a MediaRouteProvider
• The Media Projection APIs
• AlarmManager and the Scheduled Service Pattern
• PowerManager and WakeLocks
• JobScheduler
• Accessing Location-Based Services
• The Fused Location Provider
• Working with the Clipboard
• Telephony
• Working With SMS
• Device Administration
• Basic Use of Sensors
• Printing and Document Generation
• Basic Bluetooth RFCOMM
• Dealing with Different Hardware
• Writing and Using Parcelables
• Responding to URLs
• App Shortcuts
• PackageManager Tricks
• Remote Services and the Binding Pattern
• Advanced Manifest Tips
• Miscellaneous Integration Tips
• Android Studio Editors and Dialogs
• Advanced Emulator Capabilities
• Lint and the Support Annotations
• Inspecting Layouts
• Screenshots and Screencasts
• ADB Tips and Tricks
• Stetho
• Issues with Speed
• Finding CPU Bottlenecks
• Focus On: NDK
• Improving CPU Performance in Java
• Finding and Eliminating Jank
• Issues with Bandwidth
• Focus On: TrafficStats
• Measuring Bandwidth Consumption
• Being Smarter About Bandwidth
• Issues with Application Heap
• Finding Memory Leaks
• Issues with System RAM
• Issues with Battery Life
• Power Measurement Options
• Sources of Power Drain
• Addressing Application Size Issues
• Crash Reporting Using ACRA
• In-App Diagnostics
• Anti-Patterns
• Widget Catalog: AdapterViewFlipper
• Widget Catalog: CalendarView
• Widget Catalog: DatePicker
• Widget Catalog: ExpandableListView
• Widget Catalog: SeekBar
• Widget Catalog: SlidingPaneLayout
• Widget Catalog: StackView
• Widget Catalog: TabHost and TabWidget
• Widget Catalog: TimePicker
• Widget Catalog: ViewFlipper
• Device Catalog: Chrome and Chrome OS
• Device Catalog: BlackBerry
• Device Catalog: Android TV
• Device Catalog: Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick
• Device Catalog: Samsung DeX
• Appendix A: CWAC Libraries
• Appendix B: Android 8.0
• Appendix C: Android 9.0
• Appendix D: Community Theater and the Appinars

What's New

• Updated coverage for Android 9.0
• Added a new chapter on hosting and rendering slices
• Added a new section on using ListAdapter (the new one) with RecyclerView
• Adds material on Chrome OS tablets, Chromeboxes, and the Samsung DeX Pad

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