Learn Android Studio 3

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-4

3. Android Studio

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   Pages 5-17

4. Application Fundamentals

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   Pages 19-39

5. Activities and Layouts

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   Pages 41-54

6. Handling Events

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   Pages 55-82

7. Working with Multiple Activities

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   Pages 83-123

8. UI Elements

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   Pages 125-155

9. Running in the Background

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   Pages 157-167

10. Debugging

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    Pages 169-175

11. Data Persistence

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    Pages 177-201

12. App Distribution

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    Pages 203-212

13. Back Matter

    Pages 213-260

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Build Android apps using the popular and efficient Android Studio 3 suite of tools, an integrated development environment (IDE) for Android developers using Java APIs. With this book, you’ll learn the latest and most productive tools in the Android tools ecosystem, ensuring quick Android app development and minimal effort on your part. 
 
Along the way, you’ll use Android Studio to develop Java-based Android apps, tier by tier through practical examples. These examples cover core Android topics such as notifications and toast; intents and broadcast receivers; and services. Then, you’ll learn how to publish your apps and sell them online and in the Google Play store. 


What You'll Learn

• Use Android Studio 3 to quickly and confidently build your first Android apps
  
• Build an Android user interface using activities and layouts, event handling, images, menus and the action bar
  
• Incorporate new elements including fragments
  
• Integrate data with data persistence 
  
• Access the cloud 
  

Who This Book Is For


Those who may be new to Android Studio 3 or Android Studio in general. You may or may not be new to Android development in general. Some prior experience with Java is also recommended.

• Android
• Studio
• Android Studio 3
• IDE
• integrated development
• mobile
• apps
• development
• software
• code
• source
• Canary
• Google

• Manila, Philippines

  Ted Hagos

Ted Hagos is currently heading the software development group of a Dublin-based software development company. He is a certified Java programmer and enterprise architect. He has over 15 years of software development experience, and many years of experience in corporate training. He held a post as instructor in IBM Advanced Career Education, Ateneo ITI and Asia Pacific College, and has trained hundreds of programmers in various languages and platforms.

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