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You're reading from Android Studio 4.1 Development Essentials – Java Edition

Product type Book

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815161

Pages 810 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Android Development

Author (1):

Neil Smyth

Table of Contents (88) Chapters

1. Introduction

2. Setting up an Android Studio Development Environment

3. Creating an Example Android App in Android Studio

4. Creating an Android Virtual Device (AVD) in Android Studio

5. Using and Configuring the Android Studio AVD Emulator

6. A Tour of the Android Studio User Interface

7. Testing Android Studio Apps on a Physical Android Device

8. The Basics of the Android Studio Code Editor

9. An Overview of the Android Architecture

10. The Anatomy of an Android Application

11. An Overview of Android View Binding

12. Understanding Android Application and Activity Lifecycles

13. Handling Android Activity State Changes

14. Android Activity State Changes by Example

15. Saving and Restoring the State of an Android Activity

16. Understanding Android Views, View Groups and Layouts

17. A Guide to the Android Studio Layout Editor Tool

18. A Guide to the Android ConstraintLayout

19. A Guide to using ConstraintLayout in Android Studio

20. Working with ConstraintLayout Chains and Ratios in Android Studio

21. An Android Studio Layout Editor ConstraintLayout Tutorial

22. Manual XML Layout Design in Android Studio

23. Managing Constraints using Constraint Sets

24. An Android ConstraintSet Tutorial

25. A Guide to using Apply Changes in Android Studio

26. An Overview and Example of Android Event Handling

27. Android Touch and Multi-touch Event Handling

28. Detecting Common Gestures using the Android Gesture Detector Class

29. Implementing Custom Gesture and Pinch Recognition on Android

30. An Introduction to Android Fragments

31. Using Fragments in Android Studio - An Example

32. Modern Android App Architecture with Jetpack

33. An Android Jetpack ViewModel Tutorial

34. An Android Jetpack LiveData Tutorial

35. An Overview of Android Jetpack Data Binding

36. An Android Jetpack Data Binding Tutorial

37. An Android ViewModel Saved State Tutorial

38. Working with Android Lifecycle-Aware Components

39. An Android Jetpack Lifecycle Awareness Tutorial

40. An Overview of the Navigation Architecture Component

41. An Android Jetpack Navigation Component Tutorial

42. Creating and Managing Overflow Menus on Android

43. An Introduction to MotionLayout

44. An Android MotionLayout Editor Tutorial

45. A MotionLayout KeyCycle Tutorial

46. Working with the Floating Action Button and Snackbar

47. Creating a Tabbed Interface using the TabLayout Component

48. Working with the RecyclerView and CardView Widgets

49. An Android RecyclerView and CardView Tutorial

50. A Layout Editor Sample Data Tutorial

51. Working with the AppBar and Collapsing Toolbar Layouts

52. An Android Studio Master/Detail Flow Tutorial

53. An Overview of Android Intents

54. Android Explicit Intents – A Worked Example

55. Android Implicit Intents – A Worked Example

56. Android Broadcast Intents and Broadcast Receivers

57. A Basic Overview of Threads and AsyncTasks

58. An Overview of Android Started and Bound Services

59. Implementing an Android Started Service – A Worked Example

60. Android Local Bound Services – A Worked Example

61. Android Remote Bound Services – A Worked Example

62. An Android Notifications Tutorial

63. An Android Direct Reply Notification Tutorial

64. Foldable Devices and Multi-Window Support

65. An Overview of Android SQLite Databases

66. The Android Room Persistence Library

67. An Android TableLayout and TableRow Tutorial

68. An Android Room Database and Repository Tutorial

69. Accessing Cloud Storage using the Android Storage Access Framework

70. An Android Storage Access Framework Example

71. Video Playback on Android using the VideoView and MediaController Classes

72. Android Picture-in-Picture Mode

73. An Android Picture-in-Picture Tutorial

74. Making Runtime Permission Requests in Android

75. Android Audio Recording and Playback using MediaPlayer and MediaRecorder

76. Working with the Google Maps Android API in Android Studio

77. Printing with the Android Printing Framework

78. An Android HTML and Web Content Printing Example

79. A Guide to Android Custom Document Printing

80. An Introduction to Android App Links

81. An Android Studio App Links Tutorial

82. A Guide to the Android Studio Profiler

83. An Android Biometric Authentication Tutorial

84. Creating, Testing and Uploading an Android App Bundle

85. An Overview of Android Dynamic Feature Modules

86. An Android Studio Dynamic Feature Tutorial

87. An Overview of Gradle in Android Studio

Index

77.2 The Print Service Plugins

The purpose of the Print Service plugins is to enable applications to print to compatible printers that are visible to the Android device via a local area wireless network or Bluetooth.

The presence of the Print Service Plugin on an Android device can be verified by loading the Google Play app and performing a search for “Print Service Plugin”. Once the plugin is listed in the Play Store, and in the event that the plugin is not already installed, it can be installed by selecting the Install button. Figure 77-1, for example, shows the HP Print Service plugin within Google Play.

The Print Services plugins will automatically detect compatible printers on the network to which the Android device is currently connected and list them as options when printing from an application.