Beginning Android Development : getting started with android programming, activities, fragments and intents, getting to know the android user interface, designing your user interface with views, displaying pictures and menus with views, data persistence, content providers, messaging, location-based services, networking, developing android services, publishing android applications, configuring the android sdk manager, creating android virtual devices, applying styles and themes to an activity, linking activities using intents, fragments, calling built-in applications using intents, understanding the components of a screen, adapting to display orientation, managing changes to screen orientation, using picker views, using image views to display pictures, using menus with views, saving and loading user preferences, creating and using databases, sms messaging, sending e-mail, displaying maps, getting location data, establishing communication between a service and an activity, understanding threading, deploying apk files, sockets programming.