* The source information is from Udacity Nanodegree Program- Become an Android Developer *

• Material Design for Android : Material Design is a design language incorporated in the Android Lollipop release.
• The Material Design specifications is a great place to start.

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* The article source is from Udacity Nanodegree Program- Become an Android Developer *

Localization

Localization (also known as Internationalization) is the adaptation of a product or service to meet the needs of a particular language, culture or desired population’s “look-and-feel”.

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* The article source is from Udacity Nanodegree Program- Become an Android Developer *

Accessibility refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people who experience disabilities. Android provides accessibility features like

• TalkBack: It uses spoken feedback to describe the results of actions such as launching an app, and events such as notifications.
• Explore by Touch which is a system feature that works with TalkBack, allowing you to touch your device’s screen and hear what’s under your finger via spoken feedback. This feature is helpful to users with low vision.
• Accessibility settings that let you modify your device’s display and sound options, such as increasing the text size, changing the speed at which text is spoken, and more. and more.

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Original artile : https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html

The three types used by an asynchronous task are the following:

Params, the type of the parameters sent to the task upon execution.
Progress, the type of the progress units published during the background computation.
Result, the type of the result of the background computation.

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github: S0901- ContentProviderFoundation

* Reference: Udacity Nanodegree Program- Become an Android Developer *

• Add the Content Provider to the Manifest
• Setup the URIMatcher

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