Table of Contents

1. Project Introduction 1
2. Setting up an Android Studio Development Environment 2
System Requirements 2
Installing the Java Development Kit (JDK) 2
Windows JDK Installation 2
Mac OS X JDK Installation 2
Linux JDK Installation 3
Downloading the Android Studio Package 3
Installing Android Studio 4
Installation on Windows 4
Installation on Mac OS X 5
Installation on Linux 5
The Android Studio Setup Wizard 5
Installing the Latest Android SDK Packages 6
Making the Android SDK Tools Command-line Accessible 7
Windows 7 8
Windows 8.1 9
Linux 9
Mac OS X 9
Updating the Android Studio and the SDK 10
​Summary 10

3. Creating an Example Android App in Android Studio 11

​ reating a New Android Project
C 11
Defining the Project and SDK Settings 12
Creating an Activity 13
Modifying the Example Application 14
Reviewing the Layout and Resource Files 19
Previewing the Layout 21
Summary 21
4. ​A Tour of the Android Studio User Interface 22
The Welcome Screen 22
 The Main Window 23
The Tool Windows 24
Android Studio Keyboard Shortcuts 27
Switcher and Recent Files Navigation 27
Changing the Android Studio Theme 28
Summary 28
5. Web Services 29
Java Web Services 29
Web Services Examples 29
Problem 29
What is Web Service 29
Types of Web Services 30
Web Service Components 31
Summary 31
6. PHP Data Obiects 32
what is PDO 32
Why is it needed 32
What Databases are Supported 32
Installing PDO 32
Using PDO 30
Web Service Components 33
What if the Connection Fails? 33
7. API’S Used In this application 39
Login api 39
Inserting a Paper api 39
Inserting a User api 40
List of Papers api 40
List of Users api 40
Section of a single User api 40
8. Database tables 41
Pa_papers table 41
Pa_users table 42
Pa_users_bills table 42
Pa_users_papers table 43
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………….43