Professional Android 4 Application Development

CONTENTS
Updating Menu Items Dynamically 385
Handling Menu Selections 386
Introducing Submenus and Context Menus 387
Creating Submenus 387
Using Context Menus and Popup Menus 388
Refreshing the Earthquake Monitor 390
Going Full Screen 392
Introducing Dialogs 394
Creating a Dialog 395
Using the Alert Dialog Class 396
Using Specialized Input Dialogs 397
Managing and Displaying Dialogs Using Dialog Fragments 398
Managing and Displaying Dialogs Using Activity Event Handlers 400
Using Activities as Dialogs 401
Let’s Make a Toast 401
Customizing Toasts 402
Using Toasts in Worker Threads 404
Introducing Notifications 405
Introducing the Notification Manager 406
Creating Notifications 407
Creating a Notification and Confi guring the Status Bar Display 407
Using the Default Notification Sounds, Lights, and Vibrations 408
Making Sounds 408
Vibrating the Device 409
Flashing the Lights 409
Using the Notification Builder 410
Setting and Customizing the Notification Tray UI 410
Using the Standard Notifi cation UI 411
Creating a Custom Notification UI 412
Customizing the Ticker View 414
Confi guring Ongoing and Insistent Notifications 415
Triggering, Updating, and Canceling Notifications 416
Adding Notifications and Dialogs to the Earthquake Monitor 418
CHAPTER 11: ADVANCED USER EXPERIENCE 425
Designing for Every Screen Size and Density 426
Resolution Independence 426
Using Density-Independent Pixels 426
Resource Qualifiers for Pixel Density 427
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