Pro Android 5 [Paperback]

Pro Android 5 shows you how to build real-world and fun mobile apps using the Android 5 SDK. This book updates the best-selling Pro Android and covers everything from the fundamentals of building apps for smartphones, tablets, and embedded devices to advanced concepts such as custom components, multi-tasking, sensors/augmented reality, better accessories support and much more.

• Using the tutorials and expert advice, you'll quickly be able to build cool mobile apps and run them on dozens of Android-based smartphones.
• You'll explore and use the Android APIs, including those for media and sensors.
• And you'll check out what's new in Android, including the improved user interface across all Android platforms, integration with services, and more.

By reading this definitive tutorial and reference, you'll gain the knowledge and experience to create stunning, cutting-edge Android apps that can make you money, while keeping you agile enough to respond to changes in the future.

1 Hello, World

2 Introduction to Android Applications

3 Basic User Interface Controls

4 Adapters and List Controls

5 Making Advanced UI Layouts

6 Adding Menus and ActionBar

7 Styles and Themes

8 Fragments

9 Responding to Configuration Changes

10 Dialogs: Regular and Fragment

11 Working with Preferences and Saving State

12 Compatibility Library

13 Exploring Packages, Processes, Components, Threads and Handlers

14 Working with Services

15 Advanced Async Task & Progress Dialogs

16 Exploring Broadcast Receivers and Long Running Servilc%