IN ACTION THIRD EDITION W Frank Ableson Robi Sen Chris King C Enrique Ortiz MANNING Android in Action Third Edition Download from Wow! eBook Download from Wow! eBook Android in Action Third Edition W FRANK ABLESON ROBI SEN CHRIS KING C ENRIQUE ORTIZ MANNING SHELTER ISLAND Download from Wow! eBook For online information and ordering of this and other Manning books, please visit www.manning.com The publisher offers discounts on this book when ordered in quantity For more information, please contact Special Sales Department Manning Publications Co 20 Baldwin Road PO Box 261 Shelter Island, NY 11964 Email: orders@manning.com ©2012 by Manning Publications Co All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks Where those designations appear in the book, and Manning Publications was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial caps or all caps Recognizing the importance of preserving what has been written, it is Manning’s policy to have the books we publish printed on acid-free paper, and we exert our best efforts to that end Recognizing also our responsibility to conserve the resources of our planet, Manning books are printed on paper that is at least 15 percent recycled and processed without the use of elemental chlorine Manning Publications Co 20 Baldwin Road PO Box 261 Shelter Island, NY 11964 Development editor: Copyeditors: Typesetter: Cover designer: Troy Mott Benjamin Berg, Tiffany Taylor Dottie Marsico Marija Tudor ISBN 9781617290503 Printed in the United States of America 10 – MAL – 16 15 14 13 12 11 Download from Wow! eBook 632 INDEX WebViewFragment 548, 550 widget instance, create 497 widgets 48 zombie 490 Wi-Fi 161 Bluetooth similar to 386 no emulation layer 161 WiMAX 161 Windows finding IP address 168 NTLM 177 Windows Mobile 10 WinRAR 53 WinZip 53 Workbench 592 Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access See WiMAX WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE 276 WRITE_EXTERNALSTORAGE permission 267 WS-* 186 X XML drawing graphics with 228–230 layout 229 shapes 230–231 type tag 229 parsing 182 resources 140 Schema 185 stream 354 xmldrawable.xml 230 XmlPullParser 142 Z zombie widgets 490 Download from Wow! eBook MOBILE TECHNOLOGY Android IN ACTION THIRD EDITION SEE INSERT Ableson Sen King Ortiz ● ● ● W hen it comes to mobile apps, Android can almost anything—and with this book, so can you! Android, Google’s popular mobile operating system and SDK for tablets and smart phones, is the broadest mobile platform available It is Java-based, HTML5-aware, and loaded with the features today’s mobile users demand Android in Action, Third Edition takes you far beyond “Hello Android.” You’ll master the SDK, build WebKit apps using HTML 5, and even learn to extend or replace Android’s built-in features You’ll find interesting examples on every page as you explore cross-platform graphics with RenderScript, the updated notification system, and the Native Development Kit This book also introduces important tablet concepts like drag and drop, fragments, and the Action Bar, all new in Android —Gabor Paller, Ericsson the best single book “forStillboth beginners and experts ” —Matthew Johnson Sabaki Engineering covers most Android “Fully tablet functionalities ” —Loïc Simon, SII What’s Inside Covers Android 3.x SDK and WebKit development from the ground up ● Driving a robot with Bluetooth and sensors ● Image processing with Native C code ● ● This book is written for hobbyists and developers A background in Java is helpful—no prior experience with Android is assumed Frank Ableson and Robi Sen are entrepreneurs focused on mobile and web products, and on novel wireless technologies, respectively Chris King is a senior mobile engineer and C Enrique Ortiz a mobile technologist, developer, and author For access to the book’s forum and a free ebook for owners of this book, go to manning.com/AndroidinActionThirdEdition MANNING Gold standard of Android “training books ” $49.99 / Can $52.99 [INCLUDING eBOOK] ... ordered in quantity For more information, please contact Special Sales Department Manning Publications Co 20 Baldwin Road PO Box 261 Shelter Island, NY 11964 Email: orders @manning. com ? ?2012 by Manning. .. owners of this book, go to manning. com/AndroidinActionThirdEdition MANNING Gold standard of Android “training books ” $49.99 / Can $52.99 [INCLUDING eBOOK] .. .Android in Action Third Edition Download from Wow! eBook Download from Wow! eBook Android in Action Third Edition W FRANK ABLESON ROBI SEN CHRIS KING