Android 4.0 New Features
This course introduces the new developer features available in Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
What you'll learn
Android 4.0 includes a number of new developer features that improve the ability for applications to support a wide variety of devices and enhance developer productivity. In this course we will exam many of these new features including Android user interface Fragments, the ActionBar, how to detect network availability, working with peer-to-peer network communications, and using the new Calendar API.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- UI Modularization and Android 4.0 8m
- Android fragment basics 2m
- Demo: Android fragment basics 12m
- Coordinating fragment content 5m
- Demo: Coordinating fragment content 9m
- Maintaining fragment state 1m
- Demo: Maintaining fragment state 4m
- Dynamically managing fragment display 2m
- Demo: Dynamically managing fragment display 10m
- Summary 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Introducing the Android Calendar API 4m
- Accessing the calendar through Intents 3m
- Demo: Accessing the calendar through Intents 6m
- Working with events through Intents 3m
- Demo: Working with events through Intents 6m
- Using the calendar content provider 8m
- Demo: Using the calendar content provider 9m
- Adding, updating, and deleting events 7m
- Demo: Adding, updating, and deleting events 10m
- Event reminders, attendees, and recurring events 6m
- Demo: Event reminders, attendees, and recurring events 5m
- Summary 2m
About the author
Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Android, iOS, and Microsoft platforms. Jim has over 30 years of software engineering experience, with the past 15 years heavily focused on creating mobile device and location-based solutions. He has co-founded multiple software-related startups and has served in a consulting role at several more. After nearly a decade as a Microsoft Device Application Development MVP, Jim now focuses on developing A... more