Chapter 15. Developing for Android tablets
In this chapter
- Working with fragments
- The Action Bar
- Implementing drag and drop
Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophisticantion.
Bill Budge
The year was 2001. Microsoft was the largest technology company in the world and they had debuted their biggest advancement to their ubiquitous operating system: Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Touch-based computing had arrived, they claimed. We know how that turned out: XP Tablet PC Edition flopped.
In reality, XP Tablet wasn’t the first attempt to bring touch-based computing to a mass market. A decade earlier engineers at Apple developed a prototype to what would one day become the Newton. It was eerily similar to those Tablet PCs that Microsoft would tout 10 years later. That variant of the Newton never saw the light of day, and instead the Newton became the forerunner to the PDA.