Android Development - Nuts and Bolts
Get started building your own Android applications using Eclipse, from "hello world" through deployment on the Android marketplace. Learn how to test your applications in the emulator, create mobile interfaces declaratively and in code, use the standard Android widgets to work with images, text, dates, times, progress bars, "toasts", dialogs, tabs and menus. Display data from web services and sql databases in lists, spinners and gallerys.
Learn to use intents to invoke your own activities and to interact with built-in Android applications like the phone dialer, music playback viewer, web browser, map application and more. Learn how to pass data between activities and then have a little fun using speech recognition to drive your own application. The book finishes up with the details for building, signing and deploying your application to the Android marketplace.
Want to get a jump start on your Android skills? Take the Android Online Training, December 1 & 2. This eight hour course uses the Android Nuts and Bolts Courseware to demonstrate the practical skills you need to build your own Android applications.
