Android for .NET Developers: 3 Adopting The Android Mindset
This course teaches you how to think like an Android developer. It moves you beyond simply leveraging your existing skills to creating Android apps that take advantage of the Android platform’s unique capabilities to meet and exceed user expectations.
What you'll learn
Creating high-quality, successful Android apps requires much more than just learning a list of features, you must learn to think like an Android developer. This course teaches you how to do exactly that. It moves you beyond simply leveraging your existing skills to creating user-oriented Android apps that take advantage of the Android platform’s unique capabilities. The specific behaviors and usage patterns of mobile users are discussed with a focus on the Android classes and features that facilitate the building of rich, user-oriented Android apps that meet and exceed user expectations.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Prerequsites and Expectations 3m
- Adopting The Android Mindset: Partition The UI 1m
- Introducing Fragments 5m
- Creating A Simple Fragment 8m
- Creating A ListFragment 4m
- Placing Fragments on an Activity 3m
- Structure of an Activity Containing A Fragment 2m
- Coordinating Activities and Fragments 6m
- Swipe Navigation: Creating The Project 5m
- Swipe Navigation: Building The Fragment 7m
- Swipe Navigation: Building The Pager Adapter 8m
- Swipe Navigation: Connecting The Pieces 2m
- Summary 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Adopting The Android Mindset: Be Adaptable 1m
- The Need for Adaptability 2m
- Adaptability is Fundamental to Android 1m
- Density Independence 3m
- Dynamic Resource Selection 1m
- Adapting to A Change in Device Characteristics 7m
- When Size Matters 3m
- Adapting to Display Size 3m
- Eliminating Redundancy 6m
- Summary 3m
- Introduction 2m
- Adopting The Android Mindset: Immediate Access 0m
- Moving From Menu to ActionBar 5m
- Activity and Fragment ActionBar Cooperation 2m
- Adding and Handling ActionBar Actions in Fragments 13m
- Adding Special Behaviors 2m
- Linking to The App Home Screen 6m
- Making More Actions Directly Accessible 3m
- Learning More About The ActionBAr 2m
- Summary 4m
- Introduction 1m
- Adopting The Android Mindset: Make App Navigation Easy 1m
- Navigation Drawer 5m
- Creating A Simple Navigation Drawer 5m
- Providing The Drawer Options 4m
- Implementing Navigation Drawer Options 13m
- ActionBar Tie-In 1m
- Connecting The Navigation Drawer to The ActionBar 11m
- Creating Consistent Navigation Across Activities 10m
- Activity Handling of Navigation Request 4m
- 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