Developing Android Apps Basics

A new and better version of the first Android Development Basics book.

This free short book describes the basics of Android development.

It contains short explanations and examples.

Here is the subject list:

Basic Concepts

Activity

View

Intent

Service

Development

Android SDK

ADT Eclipse plugin

Creating a project

A project structure

Creating a Virtual Device

Generating jars

User Interface

Views

-View Groups

-List view

-Spinner

-Layouts

Global Strings

Menus

-Options Menu

-Context Menu

-Submenu

Alerts/Dialogs

-AlertDialog

-AlertDialog with a List

-Custom Dialog from XML file

-Status-Bar Notifications

Resource images

-A Bitmap object

-Drawing the bitmap on a canvas

Linkfy

System APIs

Multi-threading

-Regular Thread

-Thread + Handler

-AsyncTask

-Timer

Opening a new screen

Network

Media (audio, video)

Text to speech

Storage

-Shared preferences

-Storing internally

-Storing externally

Camera

Contacts

Phone calls

SMS, MMS

Geo-location

Screen Properties

Vibrate

List installed Applications

NDK

Enjoy.