ENTERPRISE ANDROID™ INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix CHAPTER 1 Developing for Android Tablets and Smartphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER 2 The Relational Model and SQLite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 CHAPTER 3 Android Database Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 CHAPTER 4 Content Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 CHAPTER 5 REST, Content Providers, Concurrency, Networking, and Sync Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 CHAPTER 6 Service Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167 CHAPTER 7 Mobile and the Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 CHAPTER 8 Complex Device-Based Data: Android Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 CHAPTER 9 Generic Data Synchronization: Project Migrate and the WebData API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 CHAPTER 10 WebData Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 CHAPTER 11 Building Human Interfaces for Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 CHAPTER 12 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 Enterprise Android™ Enterprise Android™ PROGRAMMING ANDROID DATABASE APPLICATIONS FOR THE ENTERPRISE Zigurd Mednieks G. 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