Córki Wawelu. Opowieść o jagiellońskich królewnach

Anna Brzezińska

Polska Jagiellonów oczami kobiet Wielki powrót Anny Brzezińskiej przełomowa książka o historii kreowanej przez mężczyzn, w której jednak najważniejszą rolę odgrywały kobiety Regina jest prostą chłopką, dla której Kraków to obietnica lepszego bytu i zarobku. Dziewczyna zostaje przyjęta na służbę do mistrza Bartłomieja, uznanego słodownika, który, jak szybko się okazuje, oczekuje od niej oddania i posłuszeństwa nie tylko w kuchni Wkrótce na świat przychodzi potworek Regina nie umie myśleć inaczej o swojej córce karlicy. A jednak to właśnie Dosia trafia na królewski dwór. To jej oczami postaci prawdziwej, która rzeczywiście przechadzała się po królewskich krużgankach, opiekunki, świadka wydarzeń, uczt, ślubów, spisków i gwałtów podglądamy codzienne życie jagiellońskich królewien: Jadwigi, Izabeli, Zofii, Anny i Katarzyny. Anna Brzezińska, ceniona pisarka i mediewistka, powraca z nową zaskakującą książką. Na przeszło ośmiuset stronach opisuje życie kobiet za czasów ostatnich Jagiellonów. Jej bohaterkami są nie tyko uprzywilejowane jak mogłoby się zdawać córki króla Zygmunta I Starego z małżeństw z Barbarą Zápolyą i Boną Sforzą, ale także bękarcice, mieszczki, kobiety z plebsu przyjmowane do pracy jako sługi, a traktowane jak niewolnice. Córki Wawelu zadziwiają rozmachem i drobiazgowością, jednocześnie pociągają barwną fabułą i plastycznością opisów. Brzezińska, jako wytrawna historyczka i znawczyni epoki, dba o szczegóły, powołuje się na źródła, a jako pisarka, tak ciekawie snuje opowieść, że jej książkę czytać można na równi jako dzieło historyczne i wciągającą powieść. To właśnie tu toczyła się historia: pomiędzy komnatami, na uliczkach, w spiżarniach i w ciemnych zaułkach Krakowa. Często miały na nią wpływ z pozoru mało znaczące wydarzenia, co Brzezińska potwierdza w dokumentach. Tylko tam, gdzie brakuje źródeł, pisarka wspomaga się wyobraźnią. Słowem, to książka totalna, jakiej w polskiej literaturze historycznej jeszcze nie było. Anna Brzezińska ceniona pisarka i historyczka, trzykrotna laureatka Nagrody im. Janusza A. Zajdla, prestiżowego polskiego wyróżnienia w dziedzinie fantastyki, autorka powieści i opowiadań, współpracowniczka Polityki i felietonistka Wysokich Obcasów Extra. Gdy nie pisze, pielęgnuje ogród, w którym hoduje historyczne odmiany róż i jabłoni. Czegoś takiego jeszcze nie było. Opowieść o renesansowej Polsce, Wawelu i jagiellońskich królewnach - z kobiecego punktu widzenia. A kobiety widzą więcej, bo widzą i kuchnię, i sypialnię, i skarbiec, i stajnię. Słyszą szepty w kuluarach, wyczuwają pismo nosem. To wszystko jest w tej książce, przeczytałem z zapartym tchem. - Wojciech Orliński, Gazeta Wyborcza

"Cóż tam, panie, w polityce?" Czyli o wzajemnym postrzeganiu dziennikarzy i polityków w mediach

Katarzyna Brzoza-Kolorz, Dagmara Głuszek-Szafraniec, Patrycja Szostok-Nowacka

Z recenzji dr hab. Agnieszki Szymańskiej: „Niniejsza książka jest przede wszystkim bardzo obszernym studium przekazu polskich mediów w kluczowym dla (…) sytuacji w Polsce roku wyborczym 2015. Podwójne wybory, które w rezultacie przyniosły tzw. dobrą zmianę, były bowiem czasem, w którym polityczne karty w rozgrywce o przyszłość Polski i kierunek jej dalszego rozwoju zostały rozdane na nowo. (…) wartość książki oddawanej do rąk czytelników odnosi się do jej wymiaru dokumentacyjnego. Jej treść składa się bowiem na niezwykle wnikliwy opis czasu, który objęła badaniem. Opis ponad wszelką wątpliwość rzetelny i bezstronny, a o takie publikacje dzisiaj najtrudniej. Jestem przekonana, że książka ta nie tylko jest interesująca dla nas dziś, ale będzie stanowić cenne źródło informacji na temat historycznego dla Polski roku 2015 dla wielu przyszłych pokoleń badaczy polskiej sfery publicznej oraz relacji mediów i polityki. Jej lektura powinna dać do myślenia poza tym nie tylko medioznawcom i politologom, ale nade wszystko ludziom mediów i samym politykom.”   Katarzyna Brzoza-Kolorz, doktor nauk humanistycznych, adiunkt w Instytucie Dziennikarstwa i Komunikacji Medialnej UŚ. Swoje zainteresowania naukowe koncentruje wokół następujących zagadnień: komunikowanie społeczne, komunikowanie polityczne, women’s media studies i system komunikowania lokalnego. Członkini Polskiego Towarzystwa Komunikacji Społecznej (PTKS) i European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). Uczestniczka ponad 20 konferencji naukowych. Autorka kilkunastu artykułów opublikowanych w czasopismach naukowych i pracach zbiorowych m.in. Entertainizacja polityki, „Zeszyty Prasoznawcze” nr 2/2014; Kobiety świata polityki na okładkach wybranych polskich tygodników w latach 2014-2015, „Polityka i Społeczeństwo” 1(15) / 2017, Obraz polityczek w okresie wyborów parlamentarnych w 2015 roku w polskich tygodnikach opinii a teoria zagłuszanej grupy, „Political Preferences” 17/2017. [20.02.2020] Dagmara Głuszek-Szafraniec, doktor nauk humanistycznych, adiunkt w Instytucie Dziennikarstwa i Komunikacji Medialnej UŚ, stypendystka programu Erasmus na Georg-August Universität (RFN), była redaktor mediów niemieckojęzycznych. Wykonawca w projektach finansowanych przez NCN (również w OPUS 6  pt. Miejsce religii w sferze publicznej. Tożsamości religijne w wieloreligijnych regionach Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej na przykładzie wybranych regionów Polski, Ukrainy i Słowacji [Nr: 2012/07/B/HS6/02509]). Autorka artykułów nt. mediów na świecie, m.in. Hiszpańska partia Podemos a mediatyzacja polityki, „Politeja” 4(49)/2017; Media w hiszpańskiej wspólnocie Galicji. Proces degalicyzacji mediów, „Zeszyty Prasoznawcze” 3(227)/2016, System mediów w Hiszpanii. Różnice regionalne, „Zeszyty Prasoznawcze” 4(240)/2019 oraz współautorka publikacji nt. medialnych obrazów rzeczywistości, m.in. Medialna abdykacja. Od ustąpienia Benedykta XVI do wyboru papieża Franciszka (Katowice, 2015) [20.02.2020] Patrycja Szostok-Nowacka, doktor habilitowana, prof. UŚ w Instytucie Dziennikarstwa i Komunikacji Medialnej UŚ. Była wykonawcą w dwóch grantach naukowych: „Obraz wyborów do Parlamentu Europejskiego w polskich mediach. Analiza zawartości mediów” – grant KBN pod kierownictwem M. Kolczyńskiego nr 116211936 oraz „Obraz Prezydencji Polski w Radzie Unii Europejskiej (2011) w wybranych tytułach prasy polskiej” – grant NCN pod kierownictwem M. Kolczyńskiego nr 2011/01/B/HS5/00524. Jej zainteresowania badawcze koncentrują się wokół zagadnień psychologii komunikowania, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem jego lokalnego wymiaru oraz komunikowania politycznego. W swojej pracy naukowej realizuje przede wszystkim projekty empiryczne, oparte głównie na analizie zawartości mediów oraz badaniach społecznego odbioru komunikowania. [20.02.2020]

Cóż wam pozostało? Losy Palestyńczyków na podstawie prozy Gassana Kanafaniego

Małgorzata Al-Khatib

Książka jest prezentacją rzeczywistości palestyńskiej do lat 70-tych XX wieku, ujętą na podstawie twórczości najwybitniejszego prozaika palestyńskiego Ğassāna Kanafāniego. Autorka prezentuje twórczość tego pisarza na tle historii Palestyńczyków. Szczególne ważny jest tu obraz stosunków żydowsko-palestyńskich i izraelsko-palestyńskich, oddający wiernie konflikty, do jakich dochodzi między obiema społecznościami. Niniejsza pozycja – oparta na oryginalnych źródłach arabskich – stanowi istotny wkład do przedstawienia polskiemu odbiorcy obiektywnego obrazu tego konfliktu.

cPanel User Guide and Tutorial. Get the most from cPanel with this easy to follow guide

Aric Pedersen

A great book for getting the most out of your cPanel-supporting web hostIf you have web hosting requirements beyond the most basic, you should look for a host that offers cPanel. cPanel gives you tight control over every aspect of your web site, email accounts, and domain names.But once you've got a web site with cPanel support, how do you go about using it? While the documentation included with cPanel may provide a quick reference, to really get the most from it you need a more detailed, systematic tutorial.Read this book to find out exactly how to get the most from cPanel in all aspects of your web site management: web, email, FTP, security, domains, back ups, and more.

CQRS by Example. Master CQRS: Build Efficient and Scalable Systems with Real-World Examples

Carlos Buenosvinos, Christian Soronellas, Keyvan Akbary

This course offers an in-depth exploration of the Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern, a powerful architecture design that separates read and write operations to achieve greater scalability and performance in software systems. You'll begin by understanding the core principles behind CQRS and why it is essential for handling complex, high-traffic applications. Throughout the course, we’ll work through real-world examples that demonstrate how to apply CQRS to achieve a cleaner and more efficient codebase.Next, we will guide you through the practical aspects of implementing CQRS in a variety of use cases, focusing on how it enhances system maintainability and performance. You'll learn to distinguish between commands and queries effectively, and how to manage data consistency across distributed systems using techniques like event sourcing and eventual consistency.By the end of the course, you will have a comprehensive understanding of CQRS and its benefits. You'll be able to implement it in your own projects, whether you're building new applications or improving legacy systems. With a focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance, this course equips you with the skills needed to take on complex architectural challenges confidently.

Cracking the Data Engineering Interview. Land your dream job with the help of resume-building tips, over 100 mock questions, and a unique portfolio

Kedeisha Bryan, Taamir Ransome

Preparing for a data engineering interview can often get overwhelming due to the abundance of tools and technologies, leaving you struggling to prioritize which ones to focus on. This hands-on guide provides you with the essential foundational and advanced knowledge needed to simplify your learning journey.The book begins by helping you gain a clear understanding of the nature of data engineering and how it differs from organization to organization. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll receive expert advice, practical tips, and real-world insights on everything from creating a resume and cover letter to networking and negotiating your salary. The chapters also offer refresher training on data engineering essentials, including data modeling, database architecture, ETL processes, data warehousing, cloud computing, big data, and machine learning. As you advance, you’ll gain a holistic view by exploring continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD), data security, and privacy. Finally, the book will help you practice case studies, mock interviews, as well as behavioral questions.By the end of this book, you will have a clear understanding of what is required to succeed in an interview for a data engineering role.

Cracking the Data Science Interview. Unlock insider tips from industry experts to master the data science field

Leondra R. Gonzalez, Aaren Stubberfield, Angela Baltes

The data science job market is saturated with professionals of all backgrounds, including academics, researchers, bootcampers, and Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) graduates. This poses a challenge for companies seeking the best person to fill their roles. At the heart of this selection process is the data science interview, a crucial juncture that determines the best fit for both the candidate and the company.Cracking the Data Science Interview provides expert guidance on approaching the interview process with full preparation and confidence. Starting with an introduction to the modern data science landscape, you’ll find tips on job hunting, resume writing, and creating a top-notch portfolio. You’ll then advance to topics such as Python, SQL databases, Git, and productivity with shell scripting and Bash. Building on this foundation, you'll delve into the fundamentals of statistics, laying the groundwork for pre-modeling concepts, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI. The book concludes by offering insights into how best to prepare for the intensive data science interview.By the end of this interview guide, you’ll have gained the confidence, business acumen, and technical skills required to distinguish yourself within this competitive landscape and land your next data science job.

Cracking the IT Architect Interview. The ultimate guide to successful interviews for Enterprise, Business, Domain, Solution, and Technical Architect roles as well as IT Advisory Consultant and Software Designer roles

Sameer Paradkar

An architect attends multiple interviews for jobs or projects during the course of his or her career. This book is an interview resource created for designers, consultants, technical, solution, domain, enterprise, and chief architects to help them perform well in interview discussions and launch a successful career. The book begins by providing descriptions of architecture skills and competencies that cover the 12 key domains, including 350+ questions relating to these domains. The goal of this book is to cover all the core architectural domains. From an architect’s perspective, it is impossible to revise or learn about all these key areas without a good reference guide – this book is the solution. It shares experiences, learning, insights, and proven methodologies that will benefit practitioners, SMEs, and aspirants in the long run. This book will help you tackle the NFR domain, which is a key aspect pertaining to architecting applications.It typically takes years to understand the core concepts, fundamentals, patterns, and principles related to architecture and designs. This book is a goldmine for the typical questions asked during an interview and will help prepare you for success!

Cracking the Product Marketing Code. Craft winning go-to-market strategies for market domination

Iman Bayatra, Daniel Kuperman

In the ever-evolving product landscape, the significance of building the right product and bringing it effectively to the right market cannot be overstated. With this book, you’ll learn how to bridge the gap between your product and the market to meet customer needs effectively.Equipped with a comprehensive understanding of product marketing and its key functions—inbound and outbound strategies—you’ll discover how these strategies interweave throughout the product launch process and how to effectively leverage them to bring a product to market.This product marketing book will help you master the inbound strategies, influencing product development by conducting market and customer research, analyzing the competitive landscape, identifying customer segments, and building buyer personas to identify gaps and drive product innovation.Next, you’ll get to grips with outbound strategies, the driving force behind product adoption and sustained exponential growth. You’ll create and test messaging and positioning, build the go-to-market (GTM) plan, enable your sales team to maximize effectiveness, and ensure a product-market fit throughout the different stages of the buyer journey with impactful collaboration internally and externally for creating value.By the end of this book, you’ll have transformed into a product marketing expert enhancing product innovation, driving product adoption, and accelerating growth.

Cracow calling czyli rebelia lat 90-tych

Marcin Siwiec

Kraków lat 90. – bez makijażu, brudny, ale szczery Marcin Siwiec, czyli po prostu Siwy, lider znanej w latach 90. kapeli punkrockowej, autor tekstów piosenek, powraca w świat tuż po przemianach ustrojowych – w świat agresji, przemocy oraz skrajnego nacjonalizmu ścigającego na ulicach wszystko, co odmienne. Wprowadza czytelnika w środowisko punków, anarchistów, ale też przedstawia zwyczajnych ludzi, którzy chcieli być po prostu wolni, równi i mieć z życia coś więcej niż tylko pracę i wydawanie zarobionych pieniędzy na tanie świecidełka. Opowiada również o muzyce, ale nie o taniej, popularnej, lecz o muzyce z przekazem, gdzie tekst często bywał wskazówką i radą. Tekst, który zrywał maskę obłudy z zakłamanego świata. W tej książce i zdarzenia, i ludzie są autentyczni, a poruszane problemy wciąż aktualne. Michał „Czarny” Krzywak krakowski załogant lat 90., poeta, wolnościowiec, miłośnik Krakowa

Crafting Secure Software. An engineering leader's guide to security by design

Greg Bulmash, Thomas Segura

Drawing from GitGuardian's extensive experience in securing millions of lines of code for organizations worldwide, Crafting Secure Software takes you on an exhaustive journey through the complex world of software security and prepares you to face current and emerging security challenges confidently.Authored by security experts, this book provides unique insights into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and delivers actionable advice to help you mitigate and prevent risks. From securing code-writing tools and secrets to ensuring the integrity of the source code and delivery pipelines, you’ll get a good grasp on the threat landscape, uncover best practices for protecting your software, and craft recommendations for future-proofing against upcoming security regulations and legislation.By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a clear vision of the improvements needed in your security posture, along with concrete steps to implement them, empowering you to make informed decisions and take decisive action in safeguarding your software assets.

Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python. Write test suites that scale with your applications' needs and complexity using Python and PyTest

Alessandro Molina

Test-driven development (TDD) is a set of best practices that helps developers to build more scalable software and is used to increase the robustness of software by using automatic tests. This book shows you how to apply TDD practices effectively in Python projects.You’ll begin by learning about built-in unit tests and Mocks before covering rich frameworks like PyTest and web-based libraries such as WebTest and Robot Framework, discovering how Python allows you to embrace all modern testing practices with ease. Moving on, you’ll find out how to design tests and balance them with new feature development and learn how to create a complete test suite with PyTest. The book helps you adopt a hands-on approach to implementing TDD and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and make you more productive in no time. With the help of step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll explore automatic tests and TDD best practices and get to grips with the methodologies and tools available in Python for creating effective and robust applications.By the end of this Python book, you will be able to write reliable test suites in Python to ensure the long-term resilience of your application using the range of libraries offered by Python for testing and development.

Cranford Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Gaskell, Elizabeth

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Kate Mattock Life in the small English town of Cranford seems very quiet and peaceful. The ladies of Cranford lead tidy, regular lives. They make their visits between the hours of twelve and three, give little evening parties, and worry about their maid-servants. But life is not always smooth - there are little arguments and jealousies, sudden deaths and unexpected marriages . . . Mrs Gaskell's timeless picture of small-town life in the first half of the nineteenth century has delighted readers for nearly 150 years.

Craven Fortune

Fred M. White

The moral of this story is clear to all, because it is relevant envy. It was a large, beautifully furnished room, filled with priceless paintings, bronze and old furniture. It was the mansion of a rich Stephen Morrison, a wise man. He hired an artist and gave him a check so that he could settle in the city. Everyone was jealous of Stephen.

Crazy Rhythm

Max Brand

After 8 years in prison for murder, Jimmy Geary returns to his town Yellow Creek, and his past, and an ambush. Jimmy was very happy to see town again. But there are three men who arent happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short... Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Max Brands remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest western authors of all time, Frederick Faust wrote under sixteen different pseudonyms, including the best known being Max Brand. Although he wrote under many genres, westerns were his forte. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was.

Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide. Build React applications faster with Create React App

Brandon Richey

If you're a power user and you aren’t happy always reusing default configurations, from previous applications with each new application, then all you need is Create React App (CRA), a tool in the React ecosystem designed to help you create boilerplate code for building a web frontend.This book will help you use CRA to write React programs without significant configuration-related difficulties. With this quick start guide, you will integrate your applications with React to build efficient professional web services.You will learn to design UIs with the features of CRA and template your React applications.By the end of the book, you will be sufficiently skilled to be able to build faster and effective React apps using CRA.

Creating Actionable Insights Using CRM Analytics. Learn how to build insightful and actionable data analytics dashboards

Mark Tossell

CRM Analytics, formerly known as Tableau CRM and Einstein Analytics, is a powerful and versatile data analytics platform that enables organizations to extract, combine, transform, and visualize their data to create valuable business insights.Creating Actionable Insights Using CRM Analytics provides a hands-on approach to CRM Analytics implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. The book provides you with detailed explanations of essential concepts to help you to gain confidence and become competent in using the CRM Analytics platform for data extraction, combination, transformation, visualization, and action. As you make progress, you'll understand what CRM Analytics is and where it provides business value. You'll also learn how to bring your data together in CRM Analytics, build datasets and lenses for data analysis, create effective analytics dashboards for visualization and consumption by end users, and build dashboard actions that take the user from data to insight to action with ease.By the end of this book, you'll be able to solve business problems using CRM Analytics and design, build, test, and deploy analytics dashboards efficiently.

Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023. A comprehensive guide to creating your own strategy game from scratch using C#

Bruno Cicanci

Building a successful real-time strategy game is challenging, because of both the complex mechanics and the need to strike a balance between different elements, ensuring that players enjoy creating and executing strategies against the game's AI.Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023 will teach you how to install and set up the Unity game engine, create a new 3D project, and build a level editor to make it easier to modify and add maps to a game. The RTS game will start to take shape while you learn to implement different core systems such as melee and ranged battles, unit spawners, camera controls, dynamic mapping generation, basic enemy AI, and the pathfinder algorithm. You'll also get to grips with implementing command units to perform actions, crafting and producing resources, basic physics and collision detection, and building an RTS game from scratch using C# and the latest features of the Unity game engine.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to make professional and high-quality end-to-end RTS games using the best practices and techniques from the gaming industry.

Creating Concrete5 Themes. Create high quality concrete5 themes using practical recipes and responsive techniques to make it mobile-ready

Remo Laubacher, Concrete5 Project

Creating a concrete5 theme isn't complicated if there’s already a HTML document. There are only very few PHP functions you’ll have to add, but those are powerful and give you a lot of freedom. As you’ll learn to create mobile ready themes, you’ll start to see that there’s almost no limit in what you can do.Creating Concrete5 Themes is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of examples that will teach you how to create powerful concrete5 themes, change the look of content block elements, and even make your site ready for mobile devices.Creating Concrete5 Themes starts with a few words about the editing concept and architecture of concrete5 and then continues with the creation of a basic theme which gets extended with more and more elements until the theme is mobile ready.You will learn where to find the information necessary to get your own concrete5 site and then get a quick introduction to understand the idea of the in-site editing concept. We’ll then create a theme which is extended with features and more details as we progress. You’ll also see some examples to show you the process of overriding elements from the core without losing the ability to upgrade concrete5 in the future. Once we’ve customized every element in concrete5 to build a complete theme, we’ll have a look at responsive techniques to make your site ready for small screen devices such as mobile phones and tablets. 

Creating Cross-Platform C# Applications with Uno Platform. Build apps with C# and XAML that run on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and WebAssembly

Matt Lacey, Marcel Alexander Wagner

Developers are increasingly being asked to build native applications that run on multiple operating systems and in the browser. In the past, this would have meant learning new technologies and making multiple copies of an application. But the Uno Platform allows you to use tools, languages, and APIs you already know from building Windows apps to develop apps that can also run on other platforms. This book will help you to create customer-facing as well as line-of-business apps that can be used on the device, browser, or operating system of your choice.This practical guide enables developers to put their C# and XAML knowledge to work by writing cross-platform apps using the Uno Platform. Packed with tips and practical examples, this book will help you to build applications for common scenarios. You'll begin by learning about the Uno Platform through step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, before moving on to creating cross-platform apps for different lines of business. Throughout this book, you'll work with examples that will teach you how to combine your existing knowledge to manage common development environments and implement frequently needed functionality.By the end of this Uno development book, you will have learned how to write your own cross-platform apps with the Uno Platform and use additional tools and libraries to speed up your app development process.

Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public. Illustrate your data in a more interactive and interesting way using Tableau Public

Matthew Floyd, Ashley Ohmann

Creating Development Environments with Vagrant. Leverage the power of Vagrant to create and manage virtual development environments with Puppet, Chef, and VirtualBox

MICHAEL KEITH PEACOCK

Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments. Make your Android apps a superior, silky-smooth experience for the end-user with this comprehensive guide to creating a dynamic and multi-pane UI. Everything you need to know in one handy volume

Jim Wilson

To create a dynamic and multi-pane user interface on Android, you need to encapsulate UI components and activity behaviors into modules that you can swap into and out of your activities. You can create these modules with the fragment class, which behaves somewhat like a nested activity that can define its own layout and manage its own lifecycle. When a fragment specifies its own layout, it can be configured in different combinations with other fragments inside an activity to modify your layout configuration for different screen sizes (a small screen might show one fragment at a time, but a large screen can show two or more).Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments shows you how to create modern Android applications that meet the high expectations of today's users. You will learn how to incorporate rich navigation features like swipe-based screen browsing and how to create adaptive UIs that ensure your application looks fantastic whether run on a low cost smartphone or the latest tablet.This book looks at the impact fragments have on Android UI design and their role in both simplifying many common UI challenges and providing new ways to incorporate rich UI behaviors.You will learn how to use fragments to create UIs that automatically adapt to device differences. We look closely at the roll of fragment transactions and how to work with the Android back stack. Leveraging this understanding, we then explore several specialized fragment-related classes like ListFragment and DialogFragment as well as rich navigation features like swipe-based screen browsing.

Creating Dynamic UIs with Android Fragments. Creating Dynamic UIs with Android Fragments Second Edition - Second Edition

Jim Wilson

Today’s users expect mobile apps to be dynamic and highly interactive, with rich navigation features. These same apps must look fantastic whether running on a medium-resolution smartphone or high-resolution tablet. Fragments provide the toolset we need to meet these user expectations by enabling us to build our applications out of adaptable components that take advantage of the rich capabilities of each individual device and automatically adapt to their differences.This book looks at the impact fragments have on Android UI design and their role in both simplifying many common UI challenges and in providing best practices for incorporating rich UI behaviors. We look closely at the roll of fragment transactions and how to work with the Android back stack. Leveraging this understanding, we explore several specialized fragment-related classes such as ListFragment and DialogFragment. We then go on to discuss how to implement rich navigation features such as swipe-based screen browsing, and the role of fragments when developing applications that take advantage of the latest aspects of Material Design. You will learn everything you need to provide dynamic, multi-screen UIs within a single activity, and the rich UI features demanded by today’s mobile users.