1st Edition

Coding Android Apps

By Margaret Kozak Polk Copyright 2025
308 Pages 190 Color Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

308 Pages 190 Color Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

308 Pages 190 Color Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

As Android apps continue to grow in popularity and an associated job market emerges, the ability to develop software and applications for Android smartphones will only grow more relevant in the foreseeable future. Compiled from materials used in over a decade of teaching undergraduate and graduate students majoring in computer science and information technology, this book is a hands-on,... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Lift Off with Android Native Apps

3. First Image Impressions and Launcher Icons

4. Externalizing Resources: Strings, Colors, and Sizes

5. Interacting with Users via Keyboard and Buttons

6. More on Layouts and Living without Constraints

7. Improving the UI with Selection Inputs and Dynamic Content

8. Apps with Multiple Activities

9. Saving App Data with Shared Preferences

10. Android Native Databases as Persistent Storage

11. Navigation Drawers and Implementing Fragments

12. Tabbed Apps, Styles, and Themes

13. Hybrid Apps

14. Media and Communication

Biography

Margaret Kozak Polk, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, since August 2020. Prior to that she was a Professor of Computer Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. She has over 25 years of experience teaching computer science and information technology courses. She earned a PhD in computer science, with an emphasis in artificial intelligence, at the Illinois Institute of Technology.