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C Enrique Ortiz THIRD EDITION

IN ACTION

Android in Action Third Edition

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Android in Action

Third Edition

W FRANK ABLESON

ROBI SEN CHRIS KING

C ENRIQUE ORTIZ

M A N N I N G

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632 INDEX

WebViewFragment 548, 550

widget instance, create 497

widgets 48

zombie 490

Wi-Fi 161

Bluetooth similar to 386

no emulation layer 161

WiMAX 161

Windows 7

finding IP address 168

NTLM 177

Windows Mobile 10

WinRAR 53

WinZip 53

Workbench 592

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

See WiMAX

WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE 276

WRITE_EXTERNALSTORAGE permission 267

WS-* 186

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XML drawing graphics with 228–230 layout 229

shapes 230–231 type tag 229 parsing 182 resources 140 Schema 185 stream 354 xmldrawable.xml 230 XmlPullParser 142

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Ableson ● Sen ● King ● Ortiz

W hen it comes to mobile apps, Android can do almost

anything—and with this book, so can you! Android,

Google’s popular mobile operating system and SDK

for tablets and smart phones, is the broadest mobile platform

available It is Java-based, HTML5 -aware, and loaded with the

features today’s mobile users demand

Android in Action, Third Edition takes you far beyond “Hello

Android.” You’ll master the SDK , build WebKit apps using

HTML 5 , and even learn to extend or replace Android’s built-in

features You’ll fi nd interesting examples on every page as you

explore cross-platform graphics with RenderScript, the updated

notifi cation system, and the Native Development Kit Th is book

also introduces important tablet concepts like drag and drop,

fragments, and the Action Bar, all new in Android 3

What’s Inside

● Covers Android 3.x

●SDK and W ebKit development from the ground up

● Driving a robot with Bluetooth and sensors

● Image processing with Native C code

Th is book is written for hobbyists and developers A

back-ground in Java is helpful—no prior experience with Android is

assumed

Frank Ableson and Robi Sen are entrepreneurs focused on mobile

and web products, and on novel wireless technologies,

respec-tively Chris King is a senior mobile engineer and C Enrique Ortiz

a mobile technologist, developer, and author.

For access to the book’s forum and a free ebook for owners of this

book, go to manning.com/AndroidinActionThirdEdition

Android IN ACTION THIRD EDITION

MOBILE TECHNOLOGY

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for both beginners and experts.

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tablet functionalities ”

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