You're reading from Android Programming for Beginners Build in-depth, full-featured Android apps starting from zero programming experience

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Last Updated in Feb 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563438

Length 742 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

John Horton

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Table of Contents (30) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Beginning Android and Java

2. Chapter 2: First Contact: Java, XML, and the UI Designer FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Exploring Android Studio and the Project Structure

4. Chapter 4: Getting Started with Layouts and Material Design

5. Chapter 5: Beautiful Layouts with CardView and ScrollView

6. Chapter 6: The Android Lifecycle

7. Chapter 7: Java Variables, Operators, and Expressions

8. Chapter 8: Java Decisions and Loops

9. Chapter 9: Learning Java Methods

10. Chapter 10: Object-Oriented Programming

11. Chapter 11: More Object-Oriented Programming

12. Chapter 12: The Stack, the Heap, and the Garbage Collector

13. Chapter 13: Anonymous Classes – Bringing Android Widgets to Life

14. Chapter 14: Android Dialog Windows

15. Chapter 15: Arrays, Maps, and Random Numbers

16. Chapter 16: Adapters and Recyclers

17. Chapter 17: Data Persistence and Sharing

18. Chapter 18: Localization

19. Chapter 19: Animations and Interpolations

20. Chapter 20: Drawing Graphics

21. Chapter 21: Threads and Starting the Live Drawing App

22. Chapter 22: Particle Systems and Handling Screen Touches

23. Chapter 23: Supporting Different Versions of Android, Sound Effects, and Spinner Widget

24. Chapter 24: Design Patterns, Multiple Layouts, and Fragments

25. Chapter 25: Building a Simple Image Gallery App

26. Chapter 26: Advanced UI with Navigation Drawer and Fragment

27. Chapter 27: Android Databases

28. Chapter 28: A Quick Chat before You Go

29. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 5: Beautiful Layouts with CardView and ScrollView

This is the last chapter on layouts before we spend some time focusing more on Java and object-oriented programming. We will formalize our learning of some of the different attributes we have already met, and we will also introduce two more cool layouts: ScrollView and CardView. To finish the chapter off, we will run the CardView project on a tablet emulator.

In this chapter, we will cover the following: