Book VI
Alternative Android Development Techniques
Contents at a Glance
Chapter 1: Creating Code Quickly with App Inventor
Getting Started with App Inventor
Creating a Project
Using the Designer
Using the Blocks Editor
Chapter 2: More App Inventor Magic
Snap a Photo
Send a Text Message
Travel to the Orient
Animate!
Using a Database
Starting Another Android App
Chapter 3: How to “Rough It” without Eclipse
Preliminaries
Meet Apache Ant
Getting Ready for Text-Based Development
Android Development with Ant
Android Development with Operating System Commands
Chapter 4: Going Native
The Native Development Kit
Creating an Application
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