App-Driven Approach

At the heart of the book is our app-driven approach—we present concepts in the context of seven complete working Android apps in the print book and more online. We begin each of the app chapters with an introduction to the app, an app test-drive showing one or more sample executions, and a technologies overview. We build the app’s GUI and resource files. Then we proceed with a detailed code walkthrough of the app’s source code in which we discuss the programming concepts and demonstrate the functionality of the Android APIs used in the app. All the source code is available at http://www.deitel.com/books/AndroidHTP2 and at the book’s Companion Website http://www.pearsonhighered.com/deitel. We recommend that you have the source ...

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