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Building Your First App
After you've installed the Android SDK, start with this class to learn the basics about Android app development.
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Adding the Action Bar
The action bar is one of the most important design elements you can implement for your app's activities. Although first introduced with API level 11, you can use the Support Library to include the action bar on devices running Android 2.1 or higher.
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Supporting Different Devices
How to build your app with alternative resources that provide an optimized user experience on multiple device form factors using a single APK.
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Managing the Activity Lifecycle
How Android activities live and die and how to create a seamless user experience by implementing lifecycle callback methods.
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Building a Dynamic UI with Fragments
How to build a user interface for your app that is flexible enough to present multiple UI components on large screens and a more constrained set of UI components on smaller screens—essential for building a single APK for both phones and tablets.
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Saving Data
How to save data on the device, whether it's temporary files, downloaded app assets, user media, structured data, or something else.
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Interacting with Other Apps
How to build a user experience that leverages other apps available on the device to perform advanced user tasks, such as capture a photo or view an address on a map.