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Preface

Before You Begin

Ch. 1. Introduction to Android

Ch. 2. Android Market and App Business Issues

Ch. 3. Welcome App: Dive-Into® Eclipse and the ADT Plugin

Ch. 4. Tip Calculator App: Building an Android App with Java

Ch. 5. Favorite Twitter® Searches App: SharedPreferences, Buttons, Nested Layouts, Intents AlertDialogs, Inflating XML Layouts and the Manifest File

Ch. 6. Flag Quiz Game App: Assets, AssetManager, Tweened Animations, Handler, Menus and Logging Error Messages

Ch. 7. Cannon Game App: Listening for Touches and Gestures, Manual Frame-By-Frame Animation, Graphics, Sound, Threading, SurfaceView and SurfaceHolder

Ch. 8. SpotOn Game App: Property Animation, ViewPropertyAnimator, AnimatorListener, Thread-Safe Collections, Default SharedPreferences for an Activity

Ch. 9. Doodlz App: Two-Dimensional Graphics, SensorManager, Multitouch Events and Toasts

Ch. 10. Address Book App: ListActivity, AdapterViews, Adapters, Multiple Activities, SQLite, GUI Styles, Menu Resources and MenuInflater

Introduction

Test-Driving the Address Book App

Technologies Overview

Building the GUI and Resource Files

Building the App

Wrap-Up

Ch. 11. Route Tracker App: Google Maps API, GPS, LocationManager, MapActivity, MapView and Overlay

Ch. 12. Slideshow App: Gallery and Media Library Access, Built-In Content Providers, MediaPlayer, Image Transitions, Custom ListActivity Layouts and the View-Holder Pattern

Ch. 13. Enhanced Slideshow App: Serializing Data, Taking Pictures with the Camera and Playing Video in a VideoView

Ch. 14. Weather Viewer App: Web Services, JSON, Fragment, ListFragment, DialogFragment, ActionBar, Tabbed Navigation, App Widgets, Broadcast Intents and BroadcastReceivers

Ch. 15. Pizza Ordering App: Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text and Telephony

Ch. 16. Voice Recorder App: Audio Recording with MediaRecorder, Audio Playback with MediaPlayer, Sending a File as an E-Mail Attachment

Ch. 17. Enhanced Address Book App: Connecting Devices Via Bluetooth, Using JSONObject to Create and Parse JSON-Formatted Data

Ch. 18. Art App: OpenGL ES and 3D rendering

Ch. 19. HTML5 Favorite Twitter Searches App: Browser-Based Mobile Apps with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Web Storage

Index

10.4. Building the GUI and Resource Files

In this section, you’ll create the Address Book app’s resource files and GUI layout files. To save space, we do not show this app’s strings.xml resource file or the layout files for the ViewContact Activity (view_contact.xml) and AddEditContact (add_contact.xml). You can view the contents of these files by opening them from the project in Eclipse.

10.4.1. Creating the Project

Begin by creating a new Android project named AddressBook. Specify the following values in the New Android Project dialog, then press Finish:

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10.4. Building the GUI and Resource Files

10.4.1. Creating the Project