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IN ACTION
THIRD EDITION

W. Frank Ableson
Robi Sen
Chris King
C. Enrique Ortiz

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Android in Action
Third Edition

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Android in Action
Third Edition
W. FRANK ABLESON
ROBI SEN
CHRIS KING
C. ENRIQUE ORTIZ

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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

X
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

Z

zombie widgets 490

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MOBILE TECHNOLOGY

Android IN ACTION THIRD EDITION
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Ableson Sen King Ortiz
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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 find interesting examples on every page as you

explore cross-platform graphics with RenderScript, the updated
notification system, and the Native Development Kit. This book
also introduces important tablet concepts like drag and drop,
fragments, and the Action Bar, all new in Android 3.

—Gabor Paller, Ericsson

the best single book
“forStillboth
beginners and
experts.
”
—Matthew Johnson
Sabaki Engineering

covers most Android
“Fully
tablet functionalities.
”
—Loïc Simon, SII

What’s Inside
Covers Android 3.x
SDK and WebKit development from the ground up
● Driving a robot with Bluetooth and sensors
● Image processing with Native C code
●
●

This book is written for hobbyists and developers. A background 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, respectively. Chris King is a senior mobile engineer and C. Enrique Ortiz
a mobile technologist, developer, and author.

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