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Contents at a Glance
About the Authors xix
About the Technical Reviewer xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction xxv
■■Chapter 1: Exploring Custom Views 1
■■Chapter 2: pound Controls 33
■■Chapter 3: Principles and Practice of Custom Layouts 61
■■Chapter 4: JSON for On-Device Persistence 81
■■Chapter 5: Programming for Multiple Devices 99
■■Chapter 6: Advanced Form Processing 115
■■Chapter 7: Using the Telephony APIs 135
■■Chapter 8: Advanced Debugging and Analysis 153
■■Chapter 9: Programming 3D Graphics with OpenGL 175
■■Chapter 10: Introduction to Android Search 257
■■Chapter 11: Simple Search Suggestion Provider 279
■■Chapter 12: Custom Search Suggestion Provider 297
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■■Chapter 13: Introduction to Cloud Storage with Parse 329
■■Chapter 14: Enhancing Parse with Parcelables 353
■■Chapter 15: Exploring Push Notifications with Parse 381
Index 397
Introduction
As a programmer, designer, or architect, you may be lulled into thinking that the Android API is
merely what you use to write mobile programs for the Android mobile platform—which, of course,
is true. However, we believe that the Android architecture has an undercurrent that makes it a key
pillar in the cloud-based puting era that is beckoning all of us! When you learn deeply
about the Android API, you are gaining a pass to the future of Google, and perhaps to the future of
all of us.
This book, Expert Android, is our fifth book on Android in the last four years. In the first four books,
published under the Pro Android name, we covered increasingly new material on the core Android API.
Expert Android is the e of our deepest desire mitment to bring you the essentials for
pelling and impactful Android applications at a faster pace.
In Expert Andro