1. Development Kit Walk-Through

   1. Chapter 1 Getting to Know Android

      1. Why Android?
      2. The Open Handset Alliance
      3. The Android Execution Environment
      4. Components of an Android Application
      5. Android Activity Lifecycle
      6. Android Service Lifecycle
      7. How This Book Fits Together

   2. Chapter 2 Setting Up Your Android Development Environment

      1. Setting Up Your Development Environment
      2. Hello, Android

   3. Chapter 3 Using the Android Development Environment for Real Applications

      1. MicroJobs: This Book’s Main Sample Application
      2. Android and Social Networking
      3. Downloading the MJAndroid Code
      4. A Brief Tour of the MJAndroid Code
      5. First Steps: Building and Running the MicroJobs Application
      6. Summary

   4. Chapter 4 Under the Covers: Startup Code and Resources in the MJAndroid Application

      1. Initialization Parameters in AndroidManifest.xml
      2. Initialization in MicroJobs.java
      3. Summary

   5. Chapter 5 Debugging Android Applications

      1. The Tools
      2. Eclipse Java Editor
      3. Summary

   6. Chapter 6 The ApiDemos Application

      1. Application Setup in the Manifest File
      2. Finding the Source to an Interesting Example
      3. Adding Your Own Examples to ApiDemos

   7. Chapter 7 Signing and Publishing Your Application

      1. Test Your Application
      2. Attach an End User License Agreement If Desired
      3. Create and Attach an Icon and Label
      4. Clean Up for Release
      5. Version Your Application
      6. Obtaining a Signing Certificate and API Key
      7. Signing Your Application
      8. Retesting Your Application
      9. Publishing on Android Market

2. Programming Topics

   1. Chapter 8 Persistent Data Storage: SQLite Databases and Content Providers

      1. Databases
      2. Content Providers

   2. Chapter 9 Location and Mapping

      1. Location-Based Services
      2. Mapping
      3. The Google Maps Activity
      4. The MapView and MapActivity
      5. Working with MapViews
      6. Location Without Maps

   3. Chapter 10 Building a View

      1. Android GUI Architecture
      2. Assembling a Graphical Interface
      3. Wiring Up the Controller
      4. The Menu

   4. Chapter 11 A Widget Bestiary

      1. Android Views
      2. ViewGroups
      3. Layouts

   5. Chapter 12 Drawing 2D and 3D Graphics

      1. Rolling Your Own Widgets
      2. Bling

   6. Chapter 13 Inter-Process Communication

      1. Intents: Simple, Low-Overhead IPC
      2. Remote Methods and AIDL

   7. Chapter 14 Simple Phone Calls

      1. Quick and Easy Phone Calls
      2. Exploring the Phone Code Through the Debugger
      3. Exception Handling
      4. Android Application-Level Modularity and Telephony

   8. Chapter 15 Telephony State Information and Android Telephony Classes

      1. Operations Offered by the android.telephony Package
      2. Android Telephony Internals
      3. Android and VoIP

1. Appendix Wireless Protocols

   1. Prehistory

   2. The Dawn of Second Generation (2G) Digital Cellular

   3. Improved Digital Cellular (2.5G)

   4. The Rise of 3G

   5. The Future: 4G

2. Colophon

The animal on the cover of Android Application Development is an Eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), an endangered marsupial otherwise known as the Eastern native cat. Eastern quolls grow to about the same size as household cats, and their thick fur ranges in color from gray to brown and is dotted with white spots. However, unlike others of its kind (the Tiger quoll, for example), no spots cover its long, hairy tail.

No longer widespread throughout mainland Australia, the Eastern quoll remains common in Tasmania. It lives in rain forests and alpine areas, though it prefers dry grasslands and forests bordered by pastoral agricultural fields. Within these habitats, the Eastern quoll hunts for small mammals and steals food from the much larger Tasmanian devil by night; by day, it slumbers in logs and in nests in underground burrows.

While female Eastern quolls can birth up to 30 babies, typically only 6 will survive, as the mother only has 6 teats in her pouch for her children. Male and female Eastern quolls reach sexual maturation less than a year after being born. Provided it survives infancy, the quoll will live an average life span of six years.

Although some farmers dislike the quoll because it occasionally feeds on chickens and other small mammals (quolls will feed on injured or ill farm animals), the quoll also benefits farmers by consuming crop pests, mice, and carrion.

The cover image is from Wood's Animate Creation Vol. I. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSansMonoCondensed.