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PROFESSIONAL
ANDROID
™
PROGRAMMING WITH MONO®
FOR ANDROID AND .NET/C#
FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Android, Mobile Devices, and the Marketplace . . . . . . . .1
CHAPTER 2
Introduction to Mono for Android . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
CHAPTER 3
Understanding Android/Mono for Android Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
CHAPTER 4
Planning and Building Your Application’s User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CHAPTER 5
Working with Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
CHAPTER 6
Binding Data to Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
CHAPTER 7
Working with the File System and Application Preferences . . . . . . . . 183
CHAPTER 8
Programming with the Device Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
CHAPTER 9
Using Multimedia — Audio, Video, and the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
CHAPTER 10
Talking to Other Applications and Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
CHAPTER 11
Developing Background Services and Asynchronous Code . . . . . . . . 289
CHAPTER 12
Canvas and Drawables: Building Custom Android Graphics . . . . . . . . 323
CHAPTER 13
Working with Location Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .371
CHAPTER 14
Internationalization and Localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
CHAPTER 15
Sharing Code Between Mono for Android,
MonoTouch, and Windows Phone 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .417
CHAPTER 16
Preparing and Publishing Your Application to the Market . . . . . . . . . . 445
CHAPTER 17
Android Tablets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
APPENDIX A
Tips for Developers and the Future of Mono and Android . . . . . . . . . . 495
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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PROFESSIONAL
Android
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Programming with Mono® for
Android and .NET/C#
Wallace B. McClure
Nathan Blevins
John J. Croft IV
Jonathan Dick
Chris Hardy
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