C H A P T E R 5

Project 1: Media Player

A picture is worth a thousand words. In computer terms, an example is worth a bunch more than documentation alone.

Okay, it's not so snappy, but you get what I mean. I'm going to start by building a simple but hopefully useful media player application. In the process, I'm also going to demonstrate some Honeycomb-specific functionality. In fact, that's where I'm going to start.

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Figure 5-1. Not quite what I had in mind . . .

Fragments

Before we start in on building a media player, let's have a look at two of the most obvious differences between an application on Honeycomb and on previous versions of ...

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