Work with the touchscreens, hardware sensors, cameras, and network transceivers on Android phones and tablets.
About this Book
Whether you're a student, teacher, hobbyist, or experienced developer, Rapid Android Development puts the fast-growing market for Android phone and tablet applications within your reach. Without needing to master the complexities of Java, Eclipse, or the Android SDK, you'll find yourself writing dazzling graphics displays and location-aware programs in no time.
With more than than 40 ready-to-run demos, applications, and games, you'll find yourself diving deeper than you thought possible into the treasure trove of software and hardware packed into today's Android devices. You'll learn how to:
- Access the Android touch screen, keyboard, and gestures to create eye-popping user experiences.
- Tap into Android's on-board sensors for orientation, location, motion, geolocation, and more to build environment-aware applications.
- Use Android's built-in networking devices to access the Internet, network with nearby Android devices, and interact with NFC-formatted RFID tags.
- Create OpenGL accelerated 2D and 3D graphics.
- Integrate camera images, video, and face-detection into your mobile apps.
- Take selected apps cross-platform with new Processing support for HTML 5 and JavaScript.
- And once the prototyping is done, you can easily move your work to Eclipse for debugging and deployment.
What You Need:
Users will need to install Version 2.0 of the Processing open source language and environment, a free download at processing.org. Readers also need to install the free Android SDK (Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 or higher) and the Ketai library for Processing. An Android phone or tablet is required to test most of the examples in the book.
Contents and Extracts
This book is currently in beta, so the contents and extracts will change as the book is developed.
Getting Started with the Touch Screen and Android Sensors
Getting Started
Working With The Touch Screen Display excerpt
Using Motion and Position Sensors
Working with Camera and Location Devices
Using Geolocation and Compass
Using Android Cameras excerpt
Using Peer-To-Peer Networking
Networking Devices with WiFi
Peer-To-Peer Networking Using Bluetooth and WiFi Direct
Using Near Field Communication (NFC) excerpt
Working with Data
Working With Data
Using SQLiteDatabases
Creating 3D Graphics and Cross-platform Apps
Introducing 3D Graphics With OpenGL
Working With Shapes and 3D Objects
Writing Cross-platform Apps In Processing.js
Lectures and Workshops
Nov. 13, 2013: Lecture
Department: Film, Video, New Media
SAIC
Chicago, IL
Nov. 3, 2013: Lecture
Mobile Processing Conference 2013
UIC Innovation Center
Chicago, IL
Nov. 1, 2013: Workshop
Mobile Processing Conference 2013
UIC Innovation Center
Chicago, IL
Feb. 7, 2013: Workshop
Human Augmentics
UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Chicago, IL
Nov. 12, 2012: Workshop
ITP - Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
New York, NY
Nov. 3+4, 2012: Workshop
Mobile Processing Conference
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Nov. 3, 2012: Artist Talk
Mobile Processing Conference
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Oct. 24, 2012: Artist Talk and Workshop
Processing Berlin
Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance
Berlin, DE
Oct. 23, 2012: Artist Talk
Digitale Klasse
University of the Arts
Berlin, DE
Oct. 18, 2012: Artist Talk and Workshop
Media Lab
Lasalle College
Singapore, SG
Oct. 16, 2012: Artist Talk
School of Art, Design and Media
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore, SG
Oct. 14, 2012: Artist Talk and Workshop
Videotage New Media Art Collective
Hong Kong, HK
Oct. 12, 2012: Artist Talk and Workshop
@Loftwork, Shibuya
Tokyo, JP
Oct. 8, 2012: Workshop
Design/Media Arts
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 6, 2012: Workshop
School of Art and Design
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
