Android Development Basics

This free short book describes the basics of Android development.
It contains short explanations and examples.

Here is the subject list:
Basic Concepts
Activity
View
Intent
Service
Development
Android SDK
ADT Eclipse plugin
Creating a project
A project structure
Creating a Virtual Device
Generating jars
User Interface
Views
-View Groups
-List view
-Spinner
-Layouts
Global Strings
Menus
-Options Menu
-Context Menu
-Submenu
Alerts/Dialogs
-AlertDialog
-AlertDialog with a List
-Custom Dialog from XML file
-Status-Bar Notifications
Resource images
-A Bitmap object
-Drawing the bitmap on a canvas
Linkfy
System APIs
Multi-threading
-Regular Thread
-Thread + Handler
-AsyncTask
-Timer
Opening a new screen
Network
Media (audio, video)
Text to speech
Storage
-Shared preferences
-Storing internally
-Storing externally
Camera
Contacts
Phone calls
SMS, MMS
Geo-location
Screen Properties
Vibrate
List installed Applications

NDK


Enjoy.