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Android Studio Cookbook

By : Mike van Drongelen
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Android Studio Cookbook

By: Mike van Drongelen

Overview of this book

This book starts with an introduction of Android Studio and why you should use this IDE rather than Eclipse. Moving ahead, it teaches you to build a simple app that requires no backend setup but uses Google Cloud or Parse instead. After that, you will learn how to create an Android app that can send and receive text and images using Google Cloud or Parse as a backend. It explains the concepts of Material design and how to apply them to an Android app. Also, it shows you how to build an app that runs on an Android wear device. Later, it explains how to build an app that takes advantage of the latest Android SDK while still supporting older Android versions. It also demonstrates how the performance of an app can be improved and how memory management tools that come with the Android Studio IDE can help you achieve this. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop high quality apps with a minimum amount of effort using the Android Studio IDE.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Android Studio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Play Store beta distribution


All right, we are going to upload our app to the Play Store as a beta distribution. Exciting, isn't it?

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the app from the first recipe; although, any app that you consider to be ready for the beta launch will do.

Make sure you do have some artwork for it as well, such as icons and screenshots. Don't worry, for this recipe, you can download these items as well from <www.packtpub.com>. Also, think about your app's metadata, such as title, description, and category.

Most important is that you do have a developers account and that you do have access to the Google Play Developer console. If you do not have an account, you need to register first via http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/start.html.

How to do it...

Getting your app into the Play Store is not so hard. It just takes some time to set up things the right way:

  1. Sign in to your Google Play Developer Console webpage or register first if you need to...