Lesson 1. Introduction
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1-2
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Mobile Phone Evolution
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1-3
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Hardware: What is inside a Smart Cellular Phone?
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1-4
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Hardware: Reusing Cell Phone Frequencies
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1-5
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Software: What is Android?
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1-6
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Why Android?
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1-7
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What is the Open Handset Alliance?
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1-8
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Open Handset Alliance Members
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1-10
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The Mobile Revolution
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1-12
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Android vs. OS Competitors
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1-13
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Android Software/Hardware Components
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1-14
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Android’s Software Architecture
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1-15
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Software Layers (Video)
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1-16
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Application’s Life Cycle (Video)
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1-17
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Android’s API (Video)
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1-18
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Android Application Framework (Video)
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1-19
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Android Development Tools (Video)
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1-20
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An Introduction to Android (Video)
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1-21
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The Dalvik Virtual Machine (Video)
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1-22
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Android Intents
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1-24
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Example1: Java + Built-in Intent
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1-27
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Dissecting an Android Application
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1-28
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Android Manifest XML File
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1-31
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Example2. Currency converter
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Appendix – The Size of the Mobile Market
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1-40
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2009 Mobile market compared to other technologies
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1-41
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2009 Mobile Revenue
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1-42
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2009 Mobile Search Market
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1-43
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2009 How SMS compares as a text communication application
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1-44
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2009 Mobile Operating System Market Share Worldwide
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1-45
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Mobile Market – Second Quarter 2010-Q2
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1-46
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Mobile Market – Fourth Quarter 2010-Q4
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1-47
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Mobile Market – Second Quarter 2011-Q2
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1-48
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Mobile Market – First Quarter 2014-Q1
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1-51
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Cell-Phone Diffusion
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Lesson 2. Android App Development Using Eclipse + ADT + SD
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2-2
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Android Applications (Just Apps)
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2-3
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Dalvik Virtual Machine vs. Android Runtime (ART)
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2-4
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Development Workbenches
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2-5
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Typical Layout of the Eclipse-ADT IDE
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2-6
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Layout of Android-Studio IDE
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2-7
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Eclipse Setup
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2-8
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SDK names
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2-9
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Users Wanting to Update an Older Android Workbench
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2-10
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First Time Android Users who have Eclipse already installed
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2-11
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Configure the ADT Plugin
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2-12
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Working with Virtual Devices (AVDs)
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2-13
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Creating a Virtual Device (AVD)
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2-16
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Testing a Virtual Device (AVD)
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2-17
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Running a Virtual Device (AVD)
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2-20
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Controlling the AVD Operations
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2-21
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Working with Emulator Disk Images
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2-22
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Upload/download Data, Music and Picture files to the Emulator’s SDcard
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2-27
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Example : HelloWorld App
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2-33
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File Structure of a Typical Android App
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2-34
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Login into the Android OS shell
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2-38
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Hacking: Moving an app from a Rooted Phone to the Emulator
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2-39
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Simpler than Hacking: Install a File Manager for Android
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2-40
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Using an alternate SD card & userData Image
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2-41
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Sending Text Messages from your Window’s PC to the Emulator
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2-43
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Making a Phone Call from your PC to the Emulator
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2-45
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Using Eclipse’s DDMS facility
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2-48
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Appendix 1 - Using a Hardware Device
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2-49
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Appendix 2 – Emulator-to-Emulator Interaction
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2-50
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Appendix 3 - How to Transfer Your Google Contacts into the Emulator
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Lesson 3. Application’s Life Cycle
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3-2
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Anatomy of Android Apps - Core Components
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3-3
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1. Activity Class
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3-4
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Example of an app containing multiple Activities
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3-5
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2. Service Class
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3-7
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3. Broadcast Receiver Class
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3-9
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4. Content Provider Class
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3-11
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Life and Death in Android
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3-13
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The Activity Stack
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3-15
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Life Cycle Callbacks
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3-17
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Activity States and Callback Methods
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3-18
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Activity State: Running
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3-19
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Activity State: Paused
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3-20
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Activity State: Stopped
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3-21
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Activity Life Cycle Diagram
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3-22
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Your turn! Lab Experience 1
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3-25
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Your turn! Lab Experience 2
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3-26
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Your turn! Lab Experience 3
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3-27
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Foreground Lifetime
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3-28
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Associating Lifecycle Events with Application’s Code
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3-31
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Killable States
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3-32
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Data Persistence using Android SharedPreferences Class
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3-34
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A complete Example: The LifeCycle App
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Lesson 4. Graphical User Interfaces
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4-2
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The Model-View-Control Pattern (MVC)
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4-5
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Android UI Design Patterns (Video)
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4-6
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The View Class
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4-7
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Using XML to represent UIs
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4-8
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Nesting XML Layouts
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4-9
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Setting Views to Work
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4-10
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A Sample of Common Android Layouts
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4-11
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A Sample of Common Android Widgets
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4-13
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GUI Editing: XML Version
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4-14
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GUI Editing: WYSIWYG Version
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4-15
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Tools you can use to create an Android GUI
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4-16
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GUI Elements: The LAYOUT
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4-17
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FrameLayout
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4-18
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LinearLayout
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4-19
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Setting Attributes
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4-20
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Orientation
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4-21
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Fill Model
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4-24
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Warning! Same XML different rendition…
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4-25
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Weight
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4-26
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Gravity
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4-27
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Layout-Gravity vs. Gravity
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4-28
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Padding
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4-29
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Padding and Margin
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4-32
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Relative Layout
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4-34
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Referring to the container
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4-35
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Referring to Other Widgets
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4-38
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Example 2
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4-39
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Table Layout
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4-40
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Setting number of columns
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4-41
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Example3
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4-43
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Stretching a column
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4-45
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Example4
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4-46
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Stretching the entire table
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4-48
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ScrollView Layout (Vertical & Horizontal)
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4-49
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Example 5. Vertical ScrollView Layout
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4-50
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Example 6. HorizontalScrollView Layout
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4-51
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Miscellaneous: Absolute Layout (Deprecated)
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4-53
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Connecting Layouts to Java Code
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4-55
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What is the meaning of an Android Context? (aside)
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4-58
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Basic Widgets: TextViews
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4-59
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Example 8 - TextViews
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4-60
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Basic Widgets: Buttons
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4-61
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Example9: Connecting Multiple Buttons
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Lesson 4. Graphical User Interfaces
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4-63
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Buttons - Combining Images & Text
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4-65
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How icons are used in Android?
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4-66
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Basic Widgets: EditText Boxes
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4-67
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Example10: Login-Screen
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4-69
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Programming time – Your turn!
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4-75
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Basic Widgets: CheckBoxes
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4-76
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Example11: CheckBoxes – CaféApp
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4-77
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Basic Widgets: CheckBoxes
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4-82
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Example12: CheckBoxes – CaféApp
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4-83
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Miscellaneous: Useful UI Attributes & Java Methods
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4-88
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Appendix A. Using the @string resource
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4-90
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Appendix B. DroidDraw
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4-91
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Appendix C. Android Asset Studio
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4-92
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Appendix D. Measuring Graphic Elements
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4-93
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Appendix E. Hierarchy Viewer Tool
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4-96
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Appendix F. Customizing Widgets
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4-97
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Appendix G: Fixing Bleeding Background Color
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4-107
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Appendix H: Useful Color Theme (Android Holo)
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4-108
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ImageView & ImageButton
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Lesson 5. List-Based Widgets: Lists, Grids, and Scroll Views
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5-2
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GUI Design for Selection Making
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5-3
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Showing a large set of choices on the GUI
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5-4
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ListViews
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5-5
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ArrayAdapter
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5-6
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List-Based App = ListView + Data + DataAdapter
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5-7
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Using the ArrayAdapter Class
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5-8
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Example1A: ListView showing a simple list (plain text)
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5-14
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An experiment based on Example1A
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5-15
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Another code experiment based on Example1A
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5-16
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Example1B: Using Activity & ArrayAdapter
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5-19
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Example1C: Custom ListView
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5-21
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The Spinner Widget
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5-25
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Example2: Using the Spinner Widget
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5-26
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GridViews
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5-27
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Useful Properties
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5-28
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Fitting the View to the Screen
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5-31
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Example3A: GridView Demo - Layout
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5-33
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AutoComplete TextView
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5-36
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Example4: AutoComplete Demo - Layout
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5-37
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The HorizontalScrollView Widget
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5-38
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Example5: HorizontalScrollView Demo
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5-39
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How to make a thumbnail ?
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5-47
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Populating The HorizontalScrollView Widget
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5-48
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Image-Based GridViews (again…)
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5-54
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Example6: GridView Images Demo
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5-57
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Custom Adapter - MyImageAdapter
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5-59
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Example6B: An Experiment - Changing from GridView to ListView
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5-60
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Using The Spinner Widget (again…)
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5-65
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Example7: Spinner Demo2
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5-66
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Example8: Defining your own ListViews
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5-67
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Create your own DataAdapter
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5-75
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Designing Custom-Rows
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5-76
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The LayoutInflater Class
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5-80
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Example 9: Storing Images on the SD card
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5-82
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The BitmapFactory class
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5-84
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Appendix A: Predefined Android Resources
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5-91
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Appendix B: EditText Boxes & Keyboarding
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5-92
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Example10: Using android:inputType=" text|textCapWords"
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5-93
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Example 11: Using android:inputType="number|numberSigned|numberDecimal"
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5-93
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Example 12: Using android:inputType="textPassword"
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5-94
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Example 13: Using android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
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5-95
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Example 14: Using android:inputType="phone"
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5-96
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Example 15: Using android:inputType="time"
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5-98
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Example 16: Using android:inputType="time"
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5-99
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Example 17: Using android:inputType="datetime"
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5-100
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Disable Soft Keyboarding on an EditText View
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