1、android系统外文翻译附录一：英文翻译原文AbstractWith the development of the mobile phone market,3G mobile phone system development has also become popular on the maket. This paper introduces some basic applications of the Android system about a part of the Application Fundamentas book translation, so that more learn
2、ers can easily learn about the development and application of the Android system. Translation about this paper is my personal understanding of the Application Fundaments, there are some similarities and differences with the original, and if you would like to know more about or more detailed about ba
3、sic application of Android system,please read the original article referenced this article, this paper only introduces basic application of the Android system about applicatedcomponent,closecomponent,manifestfile,the Intent filter.Key word: application components, closed components , Intent filter,
4、manifest files, activity, Service,Broadcast receiver , Content providerAndroid applications are written in the Java programming language. The compiled Java code along with any data and resource files required by the application is bundled by the aapt tool into an Android package, an archive file mar
5、ked by an .apk suffix. This file is the vehicle for distributing the application and installing it on mobile devices; its the file users download to their devices. All the code in a single .apk file is considered to be one application.In many ways, each Android application lives in its own world:1.
6、By default, every application runs in its own Linux process. Android starts the process when any of the applications code needs to be executed, and shuts down the process when its no longer needed and system resources are required by other applications.2. Each process has its own virtual machine (VM
7、), so application code runs in isolation from the code of all other applications.3. By default, each application is assigned a unique Linux user ID. Permissions are set so that the applications files are visible only to that user and only to the application itself although there are ways to export t
8、hem to other applications as well.Its possible to arrange for two applications to share the same user ID, in which case they will be able to see each others files. To conserve system resources, applications with the same ID can also arrange to run in the same Linux process, sharing the same VM.Appli
9、cation ComponentsA central feature of Android is that one application can make use of elements of other applications (provided those applications permit it). For example, if your application needs to display a scrolling list of images and another application has developed a suitable scroller and mad
10、e it available to others, you can call upon that scroller to do the work, rather than develop your own. Your application doesnt incorporate the code of the other application or link to it. Rather, it simply starts up that piece of the other application when the need arises.For this to work, the syst
11、em must be able to start an application process when any part of it is needed, and instantiate the Java objects for that part. Therefore, unlike applications on most other systems, Android applications dont have a single entry point for everything in the application (no main() function, for example)
12、. Rather, they have essential components that the system can instantiate and run as needed. There are four types of components:ActivitiesAn activity presents a visual user interface for one focused endeavor the user can undertake. For example, an activity might present a list of menu items users can
13、 choose from or it might display Photographs along with their captions. A text messaging application might have one activity that shows a list of contacts to send messages to, a second activity to write the message to the chosen contact, and other activities to review old messages or change settings
14、. Though they work together to form a cohesive user interface, each activity is independent of the others. Each one is implemented as a subclass of the Activity base class.An application might consist of just one activity or, like the text messaging application just mentioned, it may contain several
15、. What the activities are, and how many there are depends, of course, on the application and its design. Typically, one of the activities is marked as the first one that should be presented to the user when the application is launched. Moving from one activity to another is accomplished by having th
16、e current activity start the next one.Each activity is given a default window to draw in. Typically, the window fills the screen, but it might be smaller than the screen and float on top of other windows. An activity can also make use of additional windows for example, a pop-up dialog that calls for
17、 a user response in the midst of the activity, or a window that presents users with vital information when they select a particular item on-screen.The visual content of the window is provided by a hierarchy of views objects derived from the base View class. Each view controls a particular rectangula
18、r space within the window. Parent views contain and organize the layout of their children. Leaf views (those at the bottom of the hierarchy) draw in the rectangles they control and respond to user actions directed at that space. Thus, views are where the activitys interaction with the user takes pla
19、ce.For example, a view might display a small image and initiate an action when the user taps that image. Android has a number of ready-made views that you can use including buttons, text fields, scroll bars, menu items, check boxes, and more.A view hierarchy is placed within an activitys window by t
20、he Activity.setContentView() method. The content view is the View object at the root of the hierarchy. (See the separate User Interface document for more information on views and the hierarchy.)ServicesA service doesnt have a visual user interface, but rather runs in the background for an indefinite
21、 period of time. For example, a service might play background music as the user attends to other matters, or it might fetch data over the network or calculate something and provide the result to activities that need it. Each service extends the Service base class.A prime example is a media player pl
22、aying songs from a play list. The player application would probably have one or more activities that allow the user to choose songs and start playing them. However, the music playback itself would not be handled by an activity because users will expect the music to keep playing even after they leave
23、 the player and begin something different. To keep the music going, the media player activity could start a service to run in the background. The system would then keep the music playback service running even after the activity that started it leaves the screen.Its possible to connect to (bind to) a
24、n ongoing service (and start the service if its not already running). While connected, you can communicate with the service through an interface that the service exposes. For the music service, this interface might allow users to pause, rewind, stop, and restart the playback.Like activities and the
25、other components, services run in the main thread of the application process. So that they wont block other components or the user interface, they often spawn another thread for time-consuming tasks (like music playback). See Processes and Threads, later.Broadcast receiversA broadcast receiver is a
26、component that does nothing but receive and react to broadcast announcements. Many broadcasts originate in system code for example, announcements that the timezone has changed, that the battery is low, that a picture has been taken, or that the user changed a language preference. Applications can al
27、so initiate broadcasts for example, to let other applications know that some data has been downloaded to the device and is available for them to use.An application can have any number of broadcast receivers to respond to any announcements it considers important. All receivers extend the BroadcastRec
28、eiver base class.Broadcast receivers do not display a user interface. However, they may start an activity in response to the information they receive, or they may use the NotificationManager to alert the user. Notifications can get the users attention in various ways flashing the backlight, vibratin
29、g the device, playing a sound, and so on. They typically place a persistent icon in the status bar, which users can open to get the message.Content providersA content provider makes a specific set of the applications data available to other applications. The data can be stored in the file system, in
30、 an SQLite database, or in any other manner that makes sense. The content provider extends the ContentProvider base class to implement a standard set of methods that enable other applications to retrieve and store data of the type it controls. However, applications do not call these methods directly
31、. Rather they use a ContentResolver object and call its methods instead. A ContentResolver can talk to any content provider; it cooperates with the provider to manage any interprocess communication thats involved.See the separate Content Providers document for more information on using content provi
32、ders.Whenever theres a request that should be handled by a particular component, Android makes sure that the application process of the component is running, starting it if necessary, and that an appropriate instance of the component is available, creating the instance if necessary.Activating components: intentsContent providers are activated when theyre targeted by a request from a ContentResolver. The other three components activities, services, and broadcast receivers are activated by asynchronous messages called intents. An intent is an Intent object that holds the content o
