Video: Android Application Development - AsyncTask, Preferences, and Options Menu

Class 2, Part 4. This video comes from Marakana's 5-Day Android Bootcamp Training Course which Marko Gargenta taught in San Jose, CA earlier this year.

In this tutorial Marko will begin with an explanation of threading in Android, and how you can use AsyncTask to enable proper use of the UI thread.

Marko will also cover how the Android file system is organized as well as how you can use intents and the options menu to jump from one activity to another.

A few other topics covered include how to:
- Create Preference resource file prefs.xml
- Implement PrefsActivity.java file that inflates the Preference resource file
- Register PrefsActivity with the AndroidManifest.xml file
- Update StatusActivity to Handle Menu Events
- Create menu.xml resource to specify what a menu consists of
- Add onCreateOptionsMenu() to the activity that you want to provide a menu

** Grab the source code at http://marakana.com/f/257 **

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[arvesh9]

how to make a menu class ? as i do not want to copy/past the menu all the times in all the intents

[santoshlimbuthebe]

love you guys.....You guys made me hooked in Android Application

[arvesh9]

THANKS a LOT man !

[hanushh]

thku very much for the tut.. you could hav made simple editing before uploading.. it cud hav saved so much of time..

[MattNTiffany]

Just want to say, I just fell into the import.android.R issue!! Took me an hour to figure out what happened! I you just told us about that!!!! Point is if you have an issue, check the import lines in your Java files!!!!

[ChordsAndCode]

Thanks a bunch!!!.,., Async-ing fetch events significantly improved runtime.,XDXD =]

[nickthelegend100]

Massive help, thanks a lot! Ben trying to get my heal around AsyncTasks for some time to no avail until now.

[TheFapboy]

1:18:00 - menu stuff