The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development Version 7.4 Released

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This update:

Adds a new chapter on Android���s drag-and-drop framework,
including
material on Android N���s cross-app drag-and-drop

Adds a new chapter on adding specialized support for keyboards and mice,
including material on Android N���s keyboard shortcuts helper

Adds a new chapter on code coverage using Jacoco

Updates the chapter on Android N, including updates to the multi-window
and TileService material, a new section on MessagingStyle, and a
new section on the frame metrics API

Updates the TinyTextEditor sample to handle ACTION_EDIT requests,
in addition to using the Storage Access Framework to open documents
from within the app itself

Adds a section on EXIF header manipulation in the chapter on working with the camera

Adds a section on keyboard navigation in the chapter on RecyclerView

Adds more material on greenrobot EventBus 3.x

Adds material on the use of FLAG_SECURE and its limitations

Updates the coverage of ACRA to align with ACRA 4.9.0

Adds some notes in the chapters on Chrome OS and desktop-style apps
about the impending availability of Android apps on Chrome OS

Removes most of the references to Eclipse, with coverage now limited
to its historical role

Version 7.5 is tentatively slated for late July. This will depend a bit
on when Android Studio 2.2 ships to the release channel, as I will need
to substantially overhaul some of the introductory chapters to address
this change, and that will take some time.