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Android Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Kyle Mew
Book Image

Android Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Kyle Mew

Overview of this book

The Android OS has the largest installation base of any operating system in the world; there has never been a better time to learn Android development to write your own applications, or to make your own contributions to the open source community! This “cookbook” will make it easy for you to jump to a topic of interest and get what you need to implement the feature in your own application. If you are new to Android and learn best by “doing,” then this book will provide many topics of interest. Starting with the basics of Android development, we move on to more advanced concepts, and we’ll guide you through common tasks developers struggle to solve. The first few chapters cover the basics including Activities, Layouts, Widgets, and the Menu. From there, we cover fragments and data storage (including SQLite), device sensors, the camera, and GPS. Then we move on more advanced topics such as graphics and animation (including OpenGL), multi-threading with AsyncTask, and Internet functionality with Volley. We’ll also demonstrate Google Maps and Google Cloud Messaging (also known as Push Notifications) using the Google API Library. Finally, we’ll take a look at several online services designed especially for Android development. Take your application big-time with full Internet web services without having to become a server admin by leveraging the power of Backend as a Service (BaaS) providers.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Android Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating and using a Fragment


Android didn't always support Fragments. The early versions of Android were designed for phones, when screens had relatively small displays. It wasn't until Android started being used on tablets that there was a need to split the screen into smaller sections. Android 3.0 introduced the Fragments class and the Fragment Manager.

Along with a new class, also came the Fragment Lifecycle. The Fragment Lifecycle is similar to the Activity Lifecycle introduced in Chapter 1, Activities, as most events parallel the Activity Lifecycle.

Here's a brief overview of the main callbacks:

  • onAttach(): It's called when the Fragment is associated with an Activity.

  • onCreate(): It's called when the Fragment is first created.

  • onCreateView(): It's called when the Fragment is about to be displayed for the first time.

  • onActivityCreated(): It's called when the associated Activity is created.

  • onStart(): It's called when the Fragment will become visible to the user.

  • onResume(): It's called...