Coding Android Apps

Margaret Kozak Polk

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Chapman & Hall/CRC
22 August 2024

PDA & Handheld programming; Programming & scripting languages: general; Software Engineering; Computer networking & communications; Computer architecture & logic design

As Android apps continue to grow in popularity and an associated job market emerges, the ability to develop software and applications for Android smartphones will only grow more relevant in the foreseeable future.

By: Margaret Kozak Polk
Imprint: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032260594
ISBN 10: 1032260599
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 22 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Introduction. 2. Lift Off with Android Native Apps. 3. First Image Impressions and Launcher Icons. 4. Externalizing Resources: Strings, Colors, and Sizes. 5. Interacting with Users via Keyboard and Buttons. 6. More on Layouts and Living without Constraints. 7. Improving the UI with Selection Inputs and Dynamic Content. 8. Apps with Multiple Activities. 9. Saving App Data with Shared Preferences. 10. Android Native Databases as Persistent Storage. 11. Navigation Drawers and Implementing Fragments. 12. Tabbed Apps, Styles, and Themes. 13. Hybrid Apps. 14. Media and Communication.

Margaret Kozak Polk, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, since August 2020. Prior to that she was a Professor of Computer Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. She has over 25 years of experience teaching computer science and information technology courses. She earned a PhD in computer science, with an emphasis in artificial intelligence, at the Illinois Institute of Technology.