Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook电子书

Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook

Table of Contents

Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Working with Xamarin.Android

Introduction

Creating Xamarin.Android projects

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating user interface layouts

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating an options menu

How to do it...

How it works...

Supporting previous Android versions

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Adding an action bar

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Navigating with the action bar

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Adding action bar action items

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating contextual action mode menu

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating contextual action mode menus

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Sharing code with other platforms

How to do it...

How it works...

2. Showing Views and Handling Fragments

Introduction

Using custom views with layouts

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating and using fragments

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Preserving view and fragment state

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Navigating between fragments

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Fragments and the action bar

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Animating fragment navigation

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Animating view and object properties

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Animating views on the UI

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Adding a navigation drawer with fragments

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Applying local styles and global themes

How to do it...

How it works...

3. Managing App Data

Introduction

Storing data with SharedPreferences

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using files and the filesystem

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Reading bundled assets and resources

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Parsing, processing, and generating XML

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Accessing data with ADO.NET

Getting ready...

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Accessing data with SQLite.NET

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Encrypting databases with SQLCipher

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Consuming content providers

Getting ready...

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating content providers

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Backing up preferences and files to the cloud

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Backing up data to the cloud

Getting ready...

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

4. Presenting App Data

Introduction

Implementing a ListView

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using a SimpleAdapter

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using custom ListView items

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using a BaseAdapter with arbitrary data

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using a CursorAdapter

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Optimizing the ListView

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Enabling fast scrolling

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using section indexes

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Integrating app searchability

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

5. Communicating with the Outside World

Introduction

Consuming REST services with HttpClient

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Obtaining a network state

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Handling network state changes

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using DownloadManager

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Accessing Bluetooth

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Transferring data via Bluetooth

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Receiving NFC events

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Writing NFC tags

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Transferring data via NFC

How to do it...

How it works...

Obtaining location coordinates and addresses

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

6. Using Background Tasks

Introduction

Asynchronous tasks

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Starting services

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Stopping services

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling simultaneous service requests

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Starting services automatically

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Communicating with running services

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Critical services

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

7. Notifying Users

Introduction

Toasts

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Alert dialogs

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Alert fragments

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Embedded alert fragments

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Selection alerts

How to do it...

How it works...

The notification builder

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Ongoing notifications

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Custom notification views

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Push notifications

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

8. Interacting with Other Apps

Introduction

Starting app components

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Launching other apps

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Obtaining data from activities

How to do it...

How it works...

Using BroadcastReceivers

How to do it...

How it works...

Scheduling tasks

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Making phone calls

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Intercepting phone calls

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Sending SMS messages

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Receiving SMS messages

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

9. Presenting Multimedia

Introduction

Playing audio

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Playing audio in the background

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Managing the audio volume

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Recording an audio

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Playing a video

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Custom video controls

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the camera

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a camera app

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Handling high-resolution images

How to do it...

How it works...

Drawing on the canvas of a View

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Drawing on the canvas of a SurfaceView

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

10. Responding to the User

Introduction

Responding to simple touches

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Responding to scroll gestures

How to do it…

How it works...

There's more...

Responding to manipulation gestures

How to do it...

How it works...

Detecting rotate gestures

How to do it...

How it works...

Responding to custom user gestures

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Listening to sensor data

How to do it...

How it works...

Listening for sensor triggers

How to do it...

How it works...

Discovering the environment

How to do it...

How it works...

Detecting device shakes

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

11. Connecting to Wearables

Introduction

Introducing wearable notifications

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Customizing wearable notifications

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating wearable apps

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating always-on wearable apps

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating dynamic always-on wearable apps

How to do it...

How it works...

Communicating with wearables

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Building watch faces

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Configuring watch faces

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

12. Adding In-App Billing

Introduction

Preparing for in-app billing

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Integrating in-app billing

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Listing available products

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Purchasing products

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Listing purchased products

How to do it...

How it works...

Consuming purchases

How to do it...

How it works...

13. Publishing Apps

Introduction

Protecting the content

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Protecting the code

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Preparing the app package

How to do it...

How it works...

Shrinking the app package

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating the app package

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Uploading the app package

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding preview testers

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Releasing for production

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Updating the app

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Index