Developing Android on Android

What’s in This Book

Now that we have packed our bags for the journey, let’s look at the road map we’ll use to progress along the trail.

In the first part of the book, we will look at the variety of options we have to customize our Android experience. The home screen, lock screen, widgets, backgrounds, icons, and touch behaviors can all be personalized to your liking. Unlike some mobile operating systems that enforce a structured, inflexible design aesthetic, Android offers desktop-like customization in a mobile package. We will dive into specific examples for home screen renovation. We will also take a look at extending our Android experience by calling upon a variety of Android’s hardware capabilities, such as using the headphone jack to ...