Sams Teach Yourself Google TV™ App Development in 24 Hours

Hour 18. Developing a Complete App

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• What the app will do

• How to develop the GridFragment

• How to enhance the Activity Class

• How to add the ActionBar

In Hours 7 through 17, we covered many aspects of developing an Android app for Google TV. You learned about Layouts, the ActionBar, and Fragments. In the past four hours you learned about retrieving remote data, using ContentProviders, Cursors, and CursorLoaders.

In this hour, we will create a complete app that takes advantage of these features. We’ll use the Facebook page photo app as a starting point, but we’ll make it more useful by adding the capability to select a page. When the page is selected, the photos for that page will be displayed.

Determining ...