Android programming: the Big Nerd Ranch guide

Learning Android. Your first Android application

Android and model-View-Controller

The activity lifecycle

Debugging Android apps

Your second activity

Android SDK versions and compatibility

UI fragments and the fragment manager

Crating user interfaces with layouts and widgets

Displaying lists with ListFragment

Using fragment arguments

Using ViewPager

Dialogs

Audio playback using MediaPlayer

Retained fragments

Localization

The action bar

Saving and loading local files

Context menus and contextual action mode

Camera I: Viewfinder

Camera II: taking pictures and handling images

Implicit intents

Two-pane master-detail interfaces

More about intents and tasks

Styles and includes

XML drawables and 9-patches

HTTP & background tasks

Loopers, handlers, and HandlerThread

Search

Background services

Broadcast intents

Browsing the web & WebView

Custom views and touch events

Tracking the device's location

Local databases with SQLite

Loading asynchronous data with loaders

Using maps

Afterword.