Android Programming

Challenge: Add a Listener to the TextView .................................................................. 49

Challenge: Add a Previous Button ............................................................................. 49
Challenge: From Button to ImageButton ..................................................................... 49
3. The Activity Lifecycle ................................................................................................. 53
Logging the Activity Lifecycle .................................................................................. 54
Making log messages ...................................................................................... 54
Using LogCat ................................................................................................. 56
Rotation and the Activity Lifecycle ............................................................................ 61
Device configurations and alternative resources .................................................... 61
Saving Data Across Rotation .................................................................................... 65
Overriding onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) ............................................................. 66
The Activity Lifecycle, Revisited ............................................................................... 67
For the More Curious: Testing onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) ........................................... 69
For the More Curious: Logging Levels and Methods ..................................................... 70
4. Debugging Android Apps ............................................................................................. 73
The DDMS Perspective ............................................................................................ 74
Exceptions and Stack Traces ..................................................................................... 76
Diagnosing misbehaviors .................................................................................. 77
Logging stack traces ........................................................................................ 78
Setting breakpoints .......................................................................................... 80
Using exception breakpoints ............................................................................. 83
File Explorer .......................................................................................................... 84
Android-Specific Debugging ..................................................................................... 85
Using Android Lint ......................................................................................... 85
Issues with the R class ..................................................................................... 87
5. Your Second Activity ................................................................................................... 89
Setting Up a Second Activity .................................................................................... 90
Creating a new layout ...................................................................................... 91
Creating a new activity subclass ........................................................................ 95
Declaring activities in the manifest ..................................................................... 97
Adding a Cheat button to QuizActivity ............................................................... 98
Starting an Activity ................................................................................................. 99
Communicating with intents ............................................................................ 100
Passing Data Between Activities .............................................................................. 101
Using intent extras ........................................................................................ 102
Getting a result back from a child activity ......................................................... 104
How Android Sees Your Activities ........................................................................... 109
Challenge ............................................................................................................. 112
6. Android SDK Versions and Compatibility ...................................................................... 113
Android SDK Versions ........................................................................................... 113
Compatibility and Android Programming ................................................................... 114
Honeycomb was big ...................................................................................... 114
Minimum SDK version .................................................................................. 116
Target SDK version ....................................................................................... 116
Build SDK version ........................................................................................ 116
Adding code from later APIs safely .................................................................. 118
Using the Android Developer Documentation ............................................................. 120
Challenge: Reporting the Build Version ..................................................................... 122

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From the Library of Dan A German