Professional Tizen Application Development

Contact API 134Address Book 134Contacts 136Person Objects 144The Calendar API 146Calendar Events 149Calendar Tasks 149Adding Events 151Getting Events 153Updating Events 153Creating Recurring Events 154Setting Alarms 157Converting Events to iCalendar Format 158Summary 159Part III: Tizen Native APIsChapter 10: Native UI Applications 163UI Framework Architecture 163Types of Native UI Applications 166Native UI Application Life Cycle 167State Transition Flow 168Initialisation and Termination 169Application and Frame States 170Creating a Form and Handling Events 171Handling UI Events 175Handling Hardware Keys 177Handling Gestures 179Summary 182Chapter 11: Native Application fundamentals 183Basic Idioms and Styles 184Error Handling 184Debugging Macro Functions 189Two-Phase Construction 192The RAII Idiom 193Transferring Object Ownership 199Fundamental Data Types 200Object 200String 201Collection 206STLConverter 214DateTime and TimeSpan 218ByteBuffer 221Summary 223Chapter 12: Native UI Controls 225An Overview of UI Controls 225Using Containers 227Popups 228Panels 229Layout 230Coordinate System 231Using UI Controls 232Button 232EditArea, EditField, Textbox, and ExpandableEditArea 232Keypad 233Gallery 234SearchBar 234CheckButton 235Slider and Progress 236EditTime and EditDate 237ContextMenu and OptionMenu 238TabBar 239ColorPicker 240Header and Footer 240ListViews 243TableViews 244Summary 247Chapter 13: Multimedia and Content 249Content and Content Information 250Searching for Content 252Managing Playlists 254Playing Media Content 254Playing Audio 256Seeking in the Audio Player 257Playing Video 258Capturing Video in the Player 260Playing Multiple Audio Sources 261Recording Media Content 263Recording Audio 263Recording Video 265Capturing Images from the Camera 268Working with Images 269Decoding Images 269Editing Images 271Encoding Images 271Decoding Audio and Video 272Decoding Audio Content 272Decoding Video Content 272Encoding Audio and Video 273Encoding Audio Content 273Encoding Video Content 273Extracting Frames from Video 274Media Application Controls 274Music Player Application Control 275Video Player Application Control 277Camera Application Control 277Image Viewer Application Control 279Summary 281Chapter 14: Telephony and Networking 283Telephony 284Phone and Call Application Controls 284Getting the Current Call Information 286Checking the Telephony Network and SIM State 289Messages 291SMS Messages 291MMS Messages 298E-mail 300Push Messages 303Networking 307Network Connection Management 308HTTP 312Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct 314Bluetooth 320NFC 325Summary 331Chapter 15: Location and Social Services 333The Location Service 334Location Settings 334Location Criteria 336Getting the Location 336Monitoring Locations 337Using a Map 343The Social Service 343Social Privacy Setting 344Account Management 344The Address Book 349The Calendar Book 358Summary 366Chapter 16: Advanced UI and Graphics 367Advanced UIs 367Animations 368Scene Management 377Graphics 380UI Extensions 382Vision 383Sensors 386Speech 388Summary 390Chapter 17: I/O and Internationalisation 391Predefined Directories 392Handling File I/O 396Basic File Operations 396Getting File Attributes 399Copying, Moving, and Deleting Files 401Handling Directories 402Locking Files 405Observing File and Directory Changes 406Building a Database 409Creating a Table 409Creating a Row 410Updating a Row 412Deleting a Row 413Querying a Table 414Monitoring Storage Events 415Internationalising Your Applications 417Handling Different Text Encodings 417Handling Locale-Sensitive Information 425Summary 430Part IV: Advanced TizenChapter 18: Multithreading 433Worker Threads 434Making an Asynchronous Worker 437Using Timers 443Asynchronous Inter-thread Communication 445Summary 455Chapter 19: Inter-Application Communication and Hybrid Applications 457Inter-Application Communication 458Message Ports 458Creating a LocalMessagePort in a Native Application 459Sending a Message to Another Application 461Receiving a Message Response 461Defining a Message Protocol 463Sending Requests to a Native Application from a Web Application 467Using a Trusted Message Port 474Making a Hybrid Package 475Summary 477Index 479