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Android Programming for Beginners

By : John Horton, Paresh Mayani
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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

Summary


In this chapter, we saw how to use other apps installed on our users' device to get data from them. Specifically, we learned to get an image from the camera app, but we also know that we can use similar techniques with many other apps; however, this is beyond the scope of this beginners guide.

In the next two chapters, you will first learn the necessary techniques and then we will implement a way to save the users' data using an SQLite database. Databases are a very efficient way to store data in our apps. Certainly, there would be nothing wrong with using JSON in this app, just as we did in Chapter 15, Android Intent and Persistence, but we will see some advantages of using a database as the project proceeds. The least of which will be the ability to easily sort our data, as well as upgrade/update the structure of the data.