About the Book

Composing Mobile Apps attempts to present various mobile app development approaches and technologies along with required hands-on knowledge to deal with the nitty-gritties of designing, developing, validating, packaging and publishing them. A live mobile app has been built incrementally throughout the book using Android.

About the Author

Anubhav Pradhan heads the mobility academy at Infosys Limited that caters to diversified competency development requirements across a wide spectrum of mobile technologies. Anil V Deshpande is a senior member of the Mobility academy at Infosys Limited, and has been responsible for providing consultancy to delivery teams on mobile apps development and validation.

Table of Contents:
Part I Introduction Chapter 1 Mobility and Android 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Mobility Panorama 1.3 Mobile Platforms 1.4 App Development Approaches 1.5 Android Overview Chapter 2 Getting Started with Android 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Setting up Development Environment 2.3 Saying Hello to Android 2.4 Traversing an Android App Project Structure 2.5 Logical Components of an Android App 2.6 Android Tool Repository 2.7 Installing and Running App Devices Chapter 3 Learning with an Application - 3CheersCable 3.1 Introduction 3.2 3CheersCable App 3.3 Mobile App Development Challenges 3.4 Tenets of a Winning App Part II Building Blocks Chapter 4 App User Interface 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Activity 4.3 UI Resources 4.4 UI Elements and Events 4.5 Let’s Apply 4.6 Interaction among Activities 4.7 Let’s Apply 4.8 Fragments 4.9 Let’s Apply 4.10 Action Bar 4.11 Let’s Apply Chapter 5 App Functionality - Beyond UI 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Threads 5.3 AsyncTask 5.4 Let’s Apply 5.5 Service 5.6 Notifications 5.7 Intents and Intent Resolution 5.8 Broadcast Receivers 5.9 Telephony and SMS 5.10 Let’s Apply Chapter 6 App Data - Persistence and Access 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Flat Files 6.3 Shared Preferences 6.4 Let’s Apply 6.5 Relational Data 6.6 Data Sharing Across Apps 6.7 Enterprise Data 6.8 Let’s Apply Part III Sprucing Up Chapter 7 Graphics and Animation 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Android Graphics 7.3 Android Animation 7.4 Let’s Apply Chapter 8 Multimedia 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Audio, Video and Images 8.3 Playback 185 8.4 Let’s Apply 8.5 Capture and Storage Chapter 9 Location Services and Maps 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Google Play Services 9.3 Location Services 9.4 Maps Chapter 10 Sensors 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Sensors in Android 10.3 Android Sensor Framework 10.4 Motion Sensors 10.5 Position Sensors 10.6 Environment Sensors 10.7 Let’s Apply Part IV Moving To Market Chapter 11 Testing Android Apps 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Testing Android App Components 11.3 App Testing Landscape Overview Chapter 12 Publishing Apps 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Groundwork 12.3 Configuring 12.4 Packaging 12.5 Distributing References Index