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Android 4: New Features for Application Development

By : Murat Aydin
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Android 4: New Features for Application Development

By: Murat Aydin

Overview of this book

<p>Recently, with the increasing popularity of mobile phones, mobile operating systems have emerged and quickly spread. Now people with smart phones can do everything that they can do with their computers. The popularity of the Android mobile operating system has increased and is widely used. In this book, new features and innovations of Android 4.0 will be discussed.<br /><br />"Android 4: New Features for Application Development" is a practical and hands-on guide for developing android applications using new features of Android Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) with a step-by-step approach and clearly explained sample codes. You will learn the new APIs in Android 4.0 with sample code.<br /><br />This book will cover the new features and APIs of Android 4.0 (Android Ice Cream Sandwich). It will show the usage of the new APIs with a step-by-step approach and clearly explained sample code.<br /><br />You will learn about the new user interface components such as Action Bar and GridLayout. You will also learn about new APIs for social media integration and accessing calendar data. We will also look at new connectivity APIs such as Wi-Fi Direct and Android Beam. Supporting multiple screen sizes and multiple versions of Android is also among the subjects that you will learn.<br /><br />You can use "Android 4: New Features for Application Development" as a reference book for developing Android applications using new features of Android 4.0 with its clearly explained, step-by-step sample codes.</p>

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Android 4: New Features for Application Development
Murat Aydin
Dec, 2012 | 166 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Android 4: New features for Application Development
Android 4: New features for Application Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Action Bar for All
Action Bar for All
Action bar
Adding an ActionProvider
Adding an action view
Using the action bar for navigation
Summary
2
A New Layout – GridLayout
A New Layout – GridLayout
GridLayout
A new view – Space
Summary
3
Social APIs
Social APIs
Basics of contacts in Android
Using Social API
Summary
4
Calendar APIs
Calendar APIs
Using Calendar APIs
Summary
5
Fragments
Fragments
Fragment basics
Creating and managing fragments
Types of fragments
Summary
6
Supporting Different Screen Sizes
Supporting Different Screen Sizes
Android 4.0 supports different screen sizes
Summary
7
Android Compatibility Package
Android Compatibility Package
What is Android Compability Package
How to use the Android Compatibility Package
Summary
8
New Connectivity APIs – Android Beam and Wi-Fi Direct
New Connectivity APIs – Android Beam and Wi-Fi Direct
Android Beam
Wi-Fi Direct
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Rick Boyer has over twenty years of professional programming experience, including developing applications on Windows, Windows CE, Windows Phone, and Android. With a passion for mobile, he now focuses exclusively on the Android platform with his consulting business, NightSky Development. He also runs the LinkedIn group, Published Android Developers (http://goo.gl/Byilc), where developers discuss issues related to publishing apps to the market.

You can contact him at about.me\RickBoyer.

Ahmet Oguz Mermerkaya is an Electronics Engineer but has always worked as a software developer. He has developed softwares on different platforms using C, C++, Java, UML, and Web (PHP, MySQL). He also has experience in extreme programming techniques and model-driven development. Currently, he is working on Android application development. He is the author of Merhaba Android, a turkish book about Android application development. He is also an active member of the GDG community in Turkey.

Nathan Schwermann is a graduate from the University of Kansas and has been developing applications for Android professionally for over two years. He is a strong supporter of backward compatibility and is very familiar with both Google's support library and its famous extension Actionbar Sherlock. He also reviewed Android 3.0 Animations, Packt Publishing.

You can contact Nathan anytime at if you would like to talk about Android, job offers, or arrange a meet up at Google IO or other popular Android events.

Murat Yener completed his BS and MS degree at Istanbul Technical University. He has taken part in several projects still in use at the ITU Informatics Institute. He has worked on Isbank's Core Banking exchange project as a J2EE developer. He has designed and completed several projects still on the market by Muse Systems. He has worked in TAV Airports Information Technologies as a Enterprise Java & Flex developer. He has worked for HSBC as a project leader responsible for business processes and rich client user interfaces. Currently he is employed at Eteration A.S. working on several projects including Eclipse Libra Tools, GWT, and Mobile applications (both on Android and iOS).

He is also leading the Google Technology User Group Istanbul since 2009 and is a regular speaker at conferences such as JavaOne, EclipseCon, EclipseIst, and GDG meetings.

I would like to thank Murat Aydin, who offered me the chance to review his wonderful book. I would also like to thank Naci Dai for being my mentor and providing the best work environment, Daniel Kurka for developing mgwt, the best mobile platform I ever worked on, and Nilay Coskun for all her support.

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