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初学android开发的好书！ Contents Chapter 1: Introduction...............................................................1 What You Need to Know to Start............................................................1 How to Best Use This Book....................................................................2 Getting Started.........................................................................................2 Installing Eclipse...........................................................................................3 Getting the Android SDK..............................................................................3 Installing the Eclipse Plug-In........................................................................4 The Android Project................................................................................5 Running, Debugging, and Causing General Mayhem..........................8 Chapter 2: The Application..........................................................9 Getting Active..........................................................................................9 Getting Splashy...........................................................................................10 Creating the Intent Receiver.................................................................19 Setting It Up................................................................................................19 Seeing the Intent Receiver in Action...........................................................23 Triggering the Activity................................................................................26 Who Do You Want to Humiliate Today?.............................................29 Nervous with the Service............................................................................29 Zen and the Art of Getting Even.................................................................33 Moving Data in Android.......................................................................34 Shameless Self-Promotion..........................................................................36 Adding Evil Corporate URLS with a Content Resolver.............................38 ii Android Essentials Part of This Balanced Breakfast..........................................................39 Chapter 3: User Interface..........................................................41 Easy and Fast, the XML Layout...........................................................42 Laying Out...................................................................................................42 Scrolling, Text Entry, Buttons, and All the Simple Things in Life...........51 Waking Up the Widgets.........................................................................55 Widgets in Java...........................................................................................59 Getting Under the Hood..............................................................................59 Custom UI Rendering with the Canvas................................................67 Customizing the View.................................................................................67 Creating the Game Loop.............................................................................69 Bringing It All Together..............................................................................74 Using the User Interface.......................................................................74 Chapter 4: Location, Location, Location......................................75 Where Am I?.........................................................................................75 Building the LocationManager Object........................................................76 Look Up, Wave, the Satellites Are Watching….........................................77 Google Maps..........................................................................................80 A Metric Ton of Map Objects.....................................................................80 Moving the Map..........................................................................................82 Taking Stock................................................................................................84 It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane...Nope, It’s Bad Photoshoping...............................84 Wrapping Up...............................................................................................87 Chapter 5: Taking Android Out for a Walk...................................89 Loading a List from the Web................................................................89 First Things…First?....................................................................................90 Getting the Network in Gear.......................................................................92 Android Essentials iii Putting the Data in Its Place........................................................................94 Making a List and Checking It….........................................................95 The Setup: Embracing the List....................................................................95 Adding the Adapter.....................................................................................96 Stuffing Data into the Adapter....................................................................98 At Last, Adding the Data.............................................................................99 Selection…................................................................................................100 The Next Step......................................................................................102 Dressing Up the Menu...............................................................................102 Looking Back......................................................................................106 Chapter 6: Tying on a Bow......................................................107 The Making of an Application...........................................................107 Looks Aren’t Everything, Except, of Course, When They Are................107 Location Isn’t Too Important, Except When You Need Pizza at 4 a.m....108 Taking Off Android’s Leash and Letting It Romp Around the Internet...109 Overall.......................................................................................................109 Other Sources of Information............................................................109 Getting Help..............................................................................................110 It’s Time to Stop Reading and Start Helping.....................................110 Copyright...............................................................................112