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| Introduction | |
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| Getting Started With Android Programming | |
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| What Is Android? | |
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| Android Versions | |
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| Features of Android | |
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| Architecture of Android | |
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| Android Devices in the Market | |
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| The Android Market | |
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| The Android Developer Community | |
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| Obtaining the Required Tools | |
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| Android SDK | |
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| Installing the Android SDK Tools | |
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| Confi guring the Android SDK Manager | |
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| Eclipse | |
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| Android Development Tools (ADT) | |
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| Creating Android Virtual Devices (AVDs) | |
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| Creating Your First Android Application | |
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| Anatomy of an Android Application | |
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| Summary | |
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| Activities, Fragments, And Intents | |
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| Understanding Activities | |
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| Applying Styles and Themes to an Activity | |
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| Hiding the Activity Title | |
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| Displaying a Dialog Window | |
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| Displaying a Progress Dialog | |
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| Displaying a More Sophisticated Progress Dialog | |
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| Linking Activities Using Intents | |
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| Resolving Intent Filter Collision | |
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| Returning Results from an Intent | |
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| Passing Data Using an Intent Object | |
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| Fragments | |
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| Adding Fragments Dynamically | |
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| Life Cycle of a Fragment | |
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| Interactions between Fragments | |
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| Calling Built-In Applications Using Intents | |
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| Understanding the Intent Object | |
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| Using Intent Filters | |
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| Adding Categories | |
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| Displaying Notifications | |
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| Summary | |
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| Getting To Know The Android User Interface | |
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| Understanding the Components of a Screen | |
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| Views and ViewGroups | |
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| LinearLayout | |
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| AbsoluteLayout | |
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| TableLayout | |
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| RelativeLayout | |
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| FrameLayout | |
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| ScrollView | |
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| Adapting to Display Orientation | |
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| Anchoring Views | |
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| Resizing and Repositioning | |
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| Managing Changes to Screen Orientation | |
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| Persisting State Information during Changes in Confi guration | |
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| Detecting Orientation Changes | |
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| Controlling the Orientation of the Activity | |
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| Utilizing the Action Bar | |
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| Adding Action Items to the Action Bar | |
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| Customizing the Action Items and Application Icon | |
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| Creating the User Interface Programmatically | |
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| Listening for UI Notifications | |
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| Overriding Methods Defined in an Activity | |
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| Registering Events for Views | |
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| Summary | |
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| Designing Your User Interface With Views | |
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| Using Basic Views | |
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| TextView View | |
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| Button, ImageButton, EditText, CheckBox, ToggleButton, RadioButton, and RadioGroup Views | |
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| ProgressBar View | |
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| AutoCompleteTextView View | |
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| Using Picker Views | |
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| TimePicker View | |
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| DatePicker View | |
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| Using List Views to Display Long Lists | |
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| ListView View | |
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| Using the Spinner View | |
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| Understanding Specialized Fragments | |
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| Using a ListFragment | |
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| Using a DialogFragment | |
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| Using a PreferenceFragment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Displaying Pictures And Menus With Views | |
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| Using Image Views to Display Pictures | |
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| Gallery and ImageView Views | |
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| ImageSwitcher | |
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| GridView | |
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| Using Menus with Views | |
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| Creating the Helper Methods | |
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| Options Menu | |
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| Context Menu | |
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| Some Additional Views | |
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| AnalogClock and DigitalClock Views | |
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| WebView | |
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| Summary | |
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| Data Persistence | |
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| Saving and Loading User Preferences | |
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| Accessing Preferences Using an Activity | |
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| Programmatically Retrieving and Modifying the Preferences Values | |
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| Changing the Default Name of the Preferences File | |
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| Persisting Data to Files | |
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| Saving to Internal Storage | |
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| Saving to External Storage (SD Card) | |
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| Choosing the Best Storage Option | |
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| Using Static Resources | |
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| Creating and Using Databases | |
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| Creating the DBAdapter Helper Class | |
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| Using the Database Programmatically | |
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| Pre-Creating the Database | |
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| Summary | |
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| Content Providers | |
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| Sharing Data in Android | |
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| Using a Content Provider | |
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| Predefi ned Query String Constants | |
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| Projections | |
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| Filtering | |
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| Sorting | |
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| Creating Your Own Content Providers | |
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| Using the Content Provider | |
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| Summary | |
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| Messaging | |
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| SMS Messaging | |
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| Sending SMS Messages Programmatically | |
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| Getting Feedback after Sending a Message | |
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| Sending SMS Messages Using Intent | |
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| Receiving SMS Messages | |
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| Caveats and Warnings | |
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| Sending E-mail | |
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| Summary | |
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| Location-Based Services | |
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| Displaying Maps | |
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| Creating the Project | |
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| Obtaining the Maps API Key | |
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| Displaying the Map | |
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| Displaying the Zoom Control | |
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| Changing Views | |
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| Navigating to a Specific Location | |
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| Adding Markers | |
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| Getting the Location That Was Touched | |
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| Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding | |
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| Getting Location Data | |
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| Monitoring a Location | |
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| Project - Building a Location Tracker | |
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| Summary | |
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| Networking | |
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| Consuming Web Services Using HTTP | |
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| Downloading Binary Data | |
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| Downloading Text Content | |
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| Accessing Web Services Using the GET Method | |
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| Consuming JSON Services | |
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| Sockets Programming | |
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| Summary | |
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| Developing Android Services | |
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| Creating Your Own Services | |
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| Performing Long-Running Tasks in a Service | |
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| Performing Repeated Tasks in a Service | |
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| Executing Asynchronous Tasks on Separate Threads Using IntentService | |
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| Establishing Communication between a Service and an Activity | |
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| Binding Activities to Services | |
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| Understanding Threading | |
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| Summary | |
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| Publishing Android Applications | |
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| Preparing For Publishing | |
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| Versioning Your Application | |
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| Digitally Signing Your Android Applications | |
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| Deploying APK Files | |
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| Using the adb.exe Tool | |
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| Using a Web Server | |
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| Publishing on the Android Market | |
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| Summary | |
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| Using Eclipse For Android Development | |
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| Getting Around in Eclipse | |
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| Workspaces | |
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| Package Explorer | |
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| Using Projects from Other Workspaces | |
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| Using Editors within Eclipse | |
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| Understanding Eclipse Perspectives | |
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| Automatically Importing Packages | |
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| Using the Code Completion Feature | |
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| Refactoring | |
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| Debugging your Application | |
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| Setting Breakpoints | |
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| Dealing with Exceptions | |
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| USING THE ANDROID EMULATOR | |
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| Uses of the Android Emulator | |
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| Creating Snapshots | |
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| SD Card Emulation | |
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| Emulating Devices with Different Screen Sizes | |
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| Emulating Physical Capabilities | |
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| Sending SMS Messages to the Emulator | |
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| Making Phone Calls | |
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| Transferring Files into and out of the Emulator | |
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| Resetting the Emulator | |
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| Answers To Exercises | |
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| Index | |