PacktLib: Android 4: New Features for Application Development

Android 4: New features for Application Development

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Action Bar for All

Action bar

Adding an ActionProvider

Adding an action view

Using the action bar for navigation

Summary

A New Layout – GridLayout

GridLayout

A new view – Space

Summary

Social APIs

Basics of contacts in Android

Using Social API

Summary

Calendar APIs

Using Calendar APIs

Summary

Fragments

Fragment basics

Creating and managing fragments

Types of fragments

Summary

Supporting Different Screen Sizes

Android 4.0 supports different screen sizes

Summary

Android Compatibility Package

What is Android Compability Package

How to use the Android Compatibility Package

Summary

New Connectivity APIs – Android Beam and Wi-Fi Direct

Android Beam

Wi-Fi Direct

Summary

Index