Android How to Program

Paul Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has more than 30 years of experience in computing and is a graduate of MIT, where he studied Information Technology. He holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer designations and is an Oracle Java Champion. Paul was named as a Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for C# in 2012—2014. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered hundreds of programming courses worldwide to clients, including Cisco, IBM, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, SunGard, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys, and many more. He and his coauthor, Dr. Harvey Deitel, are the world’s best-selling programming-language textbook/professional book/video authors. Dr. Harvey Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has more than 50 years of experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University – he studied computing in each of these programs before they spun off Computer Science departments. He has extensive college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., in 1991 with his son, Paul. The Deitels’ publications have earned international recognition, with translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu, and Turkish. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of programming courses to corporate, academic, government, and military clients.

Before You Begin

1. Introduction to Android

2. Welcome App

3. Tip Calculator App

4. Flag Quiz App

5. Doodlz App

6. Cannon Game App

7. WeatherViewer App

8. Twitter® Searches App

9. Address Book App

10. Google Play and App Business Issues

Appendixes

A. Introduction to Java Applications
B. Introduction to Classes, Objects, Methods and Strings
C. Control Statements
D. Methods: A Deeper Look
E. Arrays and ArrayLists
F. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look
G. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance and Polymorphism
H. Exception Handling: A Deeper Look
I. GUI Components and Event Handling
J. Other Java Topics
K. Operator Precedence Chart
L. Primitive Types