What’s in This Book?

Hello, Android is divided into four main parts. Roughly speaking, the book progresses from less advanced to more advanced topics, or from more common to less common aspects of Android.

Several chapters share a common example: an Android Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe game. By gradually adding features to the game, you’ll learn about many aspects of Android programming, including user interfaces, multimedia, and the Android Activity and Fragment life cycles.

In Part I, we’ll start with an introduction to Android. This is where you’ll learn how to install the Android emulator and how to use an IDE to write your first program. Then we’ll introduce a few key concepts like the Android life cycle. Programming in Android is a little different ...

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