Writing Your Own Plugin Dundar, Onur; Yener, Murat
Expert Android,
2016, 2016-09-06
Book Chapter
This chapter explains how to build plugins for the IntelliJ Idea platform to extend Android Studio for the special needs. IntelliJ Idea offers an easy‐to‐extend architecture with many APIs to write ...the plugin. The ability to write the plugins will enable user to fix missing functionality. The chapter starts with building basic actions, and then discusses how to listen to files and projects. A plugin is integrated with the editor to interact with its contents. IntelliJ packages plugins as JAR files that can be installed from external repositories or from the local disk. The chapter further covers how to create custom wizards for specific tasks and how to customize their steps. IntelliJ Idea offers an easy way to create wizards for the custom tasks. Finally, the chapter shows how to write a plugin that can act without code, resources, a UI, or even a build cycle.
Setting up the Development Environment Nunes, David; Sa Silva, Jorge; Boavida, Fernando
A Practical Introduction to Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems,
2017, 2017-12-26
Book Chapter
This chapter focuses on the major ideas behind the human‐in‐the‐loop (HiTL) application — HappyWalk Android project, and discusses the actual implementation of this ...application. It then discusses the various phases needed for setting up the development environment. These comprise installing the Android software development kit, cloning the HappyWalk Android project, deploying the server, and testing the basic sample app. Android applications are developed through Android Studio (AS). The chapter summarizes the necessary tasks to properly install this IDE, including installing the Java SE Development kit, AS, and Android SDK. To compile and use the server, the following technologies are available: PostgreSQL 9.3, for hosting the given database; Eclipse Mars IDE for Java EE Developers; and Apache Tomcat 7. The server needs to communicate with Foursquare to acquire POI information. Therefore, the machine hosting it needs to have an active Internet connection. This is essential for the proper functioning of the HappyWalk system.
Contemporary perspectives and trends of information society development in Russia assume the implementation in a way of people's life fundamentally new technologies. As you can see, a crucial issue ...is the availability of development software complex as a necessary part in the progressing information projects. Therefore, it is important to study the object-oriented programming languages with the adaptation of programmes for mobile devices as an essential part in the system of General education of computer science.
This chapter explains how to navigate the intricacies of Android Studio in a way that helps to develop applications more easily and with great efficiency. It explores the Android Studio Integrated ...Development Environment, which is also known as the IDE. Basically, the IDE is the interface between developers and Android Studio. The Android Monitor automatically displays while debugging an application. It contains a very useful tool called logcat. Android Studio Code Completion should display a list of values that may use to try to complete the code statement. After building an application, it is easy to debug it and is easy to see what is going on inside the code. Breakpoints are a mechanism by which developer can command Android Studio to temporarily pause execution of their code, which allows them to examine the condition of the application. There are two other types of breakpoints: temporary breakpoints and conditional breakpoints.
This chapter focuses on Android NDK and shows how to build native C/C++ code in Android Studio. Native code is commonly used in Android projects for games and applications, which require high ...performance face recognition, audio processing, and so on. Although Android NDK is a powerful tool, many Android developers and projects may not need to use it. The chapter explores how to use Android NDK with the new Android Studio and Gradle. It also provides guidelines to install Android NDK on the following operating systems: Linux, Windows 10 and Mac OS X. Using Android NDK in an application requires high performance graphics processing, image processing, and audio processing. The experimental Gradle plugin, which provides support for NDK, introduces some changes in Gradle DSL. The chapter also explores how to use the plugin to migrate an existing NDK project.
This chapter introduces Java programming for mobile applications. It also introduces the mobile software development tool Android Studio, and then provides three mobile example programs, and finally ...presents the deployment of mobile application programs. The chapter presents Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) App Inventor, another popular way of developing Android applications. It describes the next‐generation mobile network technology, 5G, and outlines how 5G works and what it can be used for. The chapter shows how to use Android Studio to develop mobile phone applications— apps —for Android phones. 5G's small cells have a size of a few hundred meters, compared with several kilometers of 4G/3G/2G cells. The Multiple‐Input, Multiple‐Output describes wireless systems that use two or more transmitters and receivers to send and receive more data at once. Beamforming is designed for base stations to identify the most efficient data‐delivery route to a particular user and to reduce interference for nearby users in the process.
This chapter explains what Android is and what makes it so compelling to both developers and device manufacturers. It also shows how to obtain and set up all the necessary tools to test application ...on an Android emulator in Android Studio 2 and how to get started with developing Android application. Developers need only develop for Android in general, and their applications should be able to run on numerous different devices, as long as the devices are powered using Android. The chapter shows the various versions of Android and their codenames, where each version has its own features and application programming interfaces (APIs). The base Android OS supports many features, including storage, hardware support, multi‐touch, multi‐tasking, etc. To understand how Android works, the chapter shows the various layers that make up the Android operating system (OS). One of the main factors determining the success of a smartphone platform is the applications that support it.
Content Providers DiMarzio, Jerome
Beginning Android Programming with Android Studio,
2016, 2016-10-24
Book Chapter
Sharing data is a challenge because the database is accessible to only the package that created it, although using the database approach is the recommended way to save complex data. This chapter ...explains Android's way of sharing data through the use of content providers. It shows how to use the built‐in content providers, as well as implement one's own content providers to share data across packages. The way in which packages can access the data stored in it using a consistent programming interface is important. Android ships with many useful content providers, including: Browser, CallLog, Contacts, MediaStore, and Settings. To query a content provider, developers should specify the query string in the form of a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), with an optional specifier for a particular row. Besides using the query URI, developers can also use a list of predefined query string constants in Android to specify the URI for the different data types.
This chapter discusses how to set up development environment to start Android development with Android Studio. It provides installation instructions for Oracle Java version 7 on 64 bit Windows, Mac ...OS X, and Linux. The chapter also covers the basic installation instructions for Android Studio and its system requirements. Although the Android operating system is based on Linux, the Android SDK and tools are available for all major operating systems, so one can set up the development environment for the operating system he/she is working with. When he/she first launches Android Studio, he/she will see the Complete Installation dialog box, which enables him/her to import settings from a previous installation. If he/she would like to explore Android SDK and tools separately, he/she can get the standalone installation binaries for the choice of operating system. Standalone installation helps to either work with an IDE other than Android Studio, or to use the tools alone.
Third-Party Tools Dundar, Onur; Yener, Murat
Expert Android,
2016, 2016-09-06
Book Chapter
This chapter presents some popular Android Studio plugins and chip vendor tools to expand the development skills and capabilities. It starts by exploring Android Studio plugins and their use cases, ...and then deals with tools developed by Intel to enhance Android application development together with Android Studio. The chapter looks into Qualcomm and NVIDIA software tools for Android. Qualcomm provides various software tools for Android application development for Snapdragon SoC, which Qualcomm claims is used on one billion Android devices. Like all other chip vendors, Qualcomm assists developers to enhance the performance and experience of Android applications, especially native ones, with supporting libraries and tools. Intel Integrated Native Developer Experience (INDE) provides tools for Linux, Windows, and Android platforms for developing high performance applications running on platforms with Intel CPU and GPU. The chapter discusses some tools in the Intel INDE, such as Intel Tamper Protection Toolkit and Intel Multi‐OS Engine.
