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Android Programming for Beginners

By : John Horton, Paresh Mayani
Book Image

Android Programming for Beginners

By: John Horton, Paresh Mayani

Overview of this book

Android is the most popular OS in the world. There are millions of devices accessing tens of thousands of applications. It is many people's entry point into the world of technology; it is an operating system for everyone. Despite this, the entry-fee to actually make Android applications is usually a computer science degree, or five years’ worth of Java experience. Android Programming for Beginners will be your companion to create Android applications from scratch—whether you’re looking to start your programming career, make an application for work, be reintroduced to mobile development, or are just looking to program for fun. We will introduce you to all the fundamental concepts of programming in an Android context, from the Java basics to working with the Android API. All examples are created from within Android Studio, the official Android development environment that helps supercharge your application development process. After this crash-course, we’ll dive deeper into Android programming and you’ll learn how to create applications with a professional-standard UI through fragments, make location-aware apps with Google Maps integration, and store your user’s data with SQLite. In addition, you’ll see how to make your apps multilingual, capture images from a device’s camera, and work with graphics, sound, and animations too. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to start building your own custom applications in Android and Java.
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Android Programming for Beginners
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Updating ViewFragment


Now, let's move on to ViewFragment. We will be using an Intent class to launch the built-in Google Maps app but with a pin to mark the location the photo was taken at.

The GPS location is already in the Photo object and we just need to do the following:

  • Capture the latitude and longitude in Double variables

  • Build a String from these values that will represent the URI that we need to create the Intent object

  • Create the Intent class

  • Start a Google Maps Activity passing in the Intent class

Of course, all this takes place inside the class that handles the button clicks for SHOW MAP.

Add the highlighted code that we just discussed to handle what happens when the user clicks on the SHOW MAP button:

public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {

  View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_view, container, false);
  TextView textView  = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textView);
  Button buttonShowLocation = (Button) view...