Introduces Android 4.4™ (KitKat®) for Nexus and Google Play edition devices. Available globally. For complete online help, see http://support.google.com/android

From setup and configuration to taking advantage of the latest features, this guide helps you get the most out of your Android smartphone. Gookin walks you through the basics of making calls, sending e-mails and texts, making the most of Android apps, and more.

"This book--a renamed new edition of Android Wireless Application Development, Volume II--is the definitive guide to advanced commercial-grade Android development, updated for the latest Android SDK. The book serves as a reference for the Android API."--

The Android Quick APIs Reference is a condensed code and APIs reference for the new Google Android 5.0 SDK. It presents the essential Android APIs in a well-organized format that can be used as a handy reference. You won’t find any technical jargon, bloated samples, drawn out history lessons, or witty stories in this book. What you will find is a software development kit and APIs reference that is concise, to the point and highly accessible. The book is packed with useful information and is a must-have for any mobile or Android app developer or programmer. In the Android Quick APIs Reference, you will find a concise reference to the Android SDK and its APIs using the official Android Studio IDE. This reference is small and handy and ideal for taking with you to your appointments with your clients.

In the era of the mobility accessing apps on mobile for day to day operation are very common. Software development drastically move towards mobile application development for each enterprise software. With this high demand of mobile apps in the market creates new opportunity for software developers to come up with new ideas. In mobile domain two major platforms plays important role in the market. One is android and second one is iOS. Being open source android becomes very popular in short amount of time. We are talking about android app development in this book. This book will help you to learn android app development from setting up development environment to bare minimal android app. It covers from basic to advance for no voice android developer. You will find most of the topics which covers android app development. Like: 1. Basics of android studio IDE 2. Project setup 3. Various Layouts 4. Widgets like buttons, text box ,checkbox and radio buttons 5. Events handling 6. Navigation patterns for a large scale app 7. Data Storage mechanism 8. Rest API 9. Access device contents like contacts In general book covers a very comprehensive guide for a beginner for getting started android development and discuss each topics step by step. We have also demonstrated some practical example for each concepts listed above.

DescriptionThis book is written to cover all the aspects of Android in a comprehensive way. Apart from the basics of Android, this book covers its various features like tools for development of app and applications of Android platform. It teaches everything you will need to know to successfully develop your own Android applications. The book addresses all the fundamentals including Intents, Activities user interfaces, SMS messaging, databases.It explains how to adapt to display orientation, user interface.It explains the various elements that go into designing your user interface using views such as TextView, EditText, ProgressBar, ListView etc.It shows how to display pictures.It shows how to use menus.It explains how to send and receive SMS.It explains how to create service which runs in the background. ContentsGetting Started with Androido What is androido Glimpse of Android versionso Architecture of Androido Android SDKo Android Studioo Creating First Hello Appo Anatomy of Android ApplicationUnderstanding Activities and IntentsActivity ConceptLifecycle of ActivityConcept of IntentLinking two ActivitiesKnowing User InterfaceView and View GroupsLayoutsAndroid Constraint Layout ExampleBasic Controls of ScreenManaging OrientationControlling OrientationDesigning User InterfaceUsing Basic ViewsTextViewButton, ImageButton, EditText, CheckBox, ToggleButton and RadioGroupEvent Handling of ViewsProgressBar ViewPicker ViewsListViewImage Views and Grid Viewo Gallery and ImageViewo Using GridView to show imageso WebViewWorking with MenusOptions MenuContext MenuPopup MenuCreating Options MenuCreating Context MenuCreating Popup MenuData PersistenceSaving and Loading by using SharedPreferenceRead and write files in external and internal storage of memoryData Storage using SQLiteSending SMS using APPo Sending SMSo Sending SMS using SMSManagero Sending SMS by using using built in SMS Applicationo Receiving SMS Messageso Sending Email using appAndroid ServicesStartedBoundLife Cycle of Service