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The start-to-finish guide to Android development?from concept to market! Android Wireless Application Development combines all the reliable information, sample code, and best practices you need to build, distribute, and market successful Android mobile applications. Drawing on their extensive experience with mobile and wireless development, Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey cover everything you need to execute a successful Android project: from concept and design through coding, testing, packaging, and delivery. Conder and Darcey explain how mobile development differs from conventional development, how Android differs from other mobile platforms, and how to take full advantage of Android?s unique features and capabilities. They present detailed, code-rich coverage of Android?s most important APIs, expert techniques for organizing development teams and managing Android projects, and dozens of time-saving tricks and pitfalls to avoid. - Master the latest Android development tools and Android SDK 1.5
- Use the Eclipse Development Environment for Java to develop and debug Android applications
- Design Android applications that are more efficient, reliable, and easier to use and offer better performance
- Work with Android?s optional hardware-specific APIs
- Use Android?s APIs for data, storage, networking, telephony, Location-Based Services (LBS), multimedia, and 3D graphics
- Leverage advanced Android capabilities such as Notifications and Services
- Ensure quality through solid test planning, efficient testing, and comprehensive defect tracking
- Make more money from your Android applications
This book is an indispensable resource for every member of the Android development team: software developers with all levels of mobile experience, team leaders and project managers, testers and QA specialists, software architects, and even marketers.
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Summary: Not bad!
Excellent book! Definitely requires somewhat of a background in the Java programming langauge, but aside from the loads of typos and grammatical errors, it was VERY informative! I just completed my first application using the Android SDK thanks to this book, and I am currently working on another! Highly recommend!
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Summary: Great All Around Book
If you are a professional developer then this is a great book. It easily teaches you everything you need to know to code on a new platform. The book covers all the general concepts from, OS Design, GIU Development, Multi-threading, DB storage, IO, Networking & Web, plus more. The examples are great. There are few errors. Each code snip is called out during a topic discussion and in full.
If you are new to coding this would not be a good choice as a lot of knowledge is assumed.
Overall, this is a great book for the transitioning developer. This is the best Android book I have read so far.
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Summary: Good Introduction, but don't expect to go far with it
It's a good introduction to various areas of Android, such as layout, database, hardware etc, but it does not have enough examples to answer questions you will come up with, such as "What happens if I did this to the example?", "What are some options I have in making minor manipulation to their code? " Going back to the book to answer my questions, most of the time I can't find answers, since it's not covered. The author needs much more examples, and more comments in the code to explain what is going on and why things are the way they are. It's hard to learn from his book even though I have a little bit of programming experience. I found some examples off the web as a stepping stone in my learning goals. The Android examples off the google developers website is a bit too advance in some ways and it's hard to find material that bridges the hole between a intro, like this book, and complex examples.
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Summary: Not worth the time
The book is very sloppy. It was not proofread adequately, and the examples not tested. The authors are obviously competent Android developers, which in this case is not necessarily a good thing - all too often, a concept is mentioned or made use of before it is formally introduced. It's obvious to them, but not to someone reading his/her first book on the plaform. Examples: p.66, Location based services do not work as described, p.108 rect not explained sufficiently, p.110 9.png files - what are the "patch guides", "emulator supporting G maps is mentioned but one would not have any idea what it means, p.146 line 3 getText is used instead of setText, p.114 "@+id" not explained, p.143 autoLink helper values are not explained - no idea how to use them - screenshots but no code, the chapter on resources is placed much too early. This is by no means a complete list, just examples, I usually don't read technical books for the purpose of collecting evidence. All too often I ended up googling what the authors were talking about to understand it. If I need to do that, might as well learn the platform online and not bother with a book. Many of the examples are very incomplete - from reading a typical one you have no idea how to put together a complete sample that uses it. In addition to all this, the book is obsolete. Despite the 2010 copyright date, it only covers the platform through 1.5, and even 1.5 is not covered adequately. I lasted through the beginning of ch. 9, but enough is enough is enough. Returned it, and on to the next one.
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Summary: Finally an Andriod book that takes you from 0 to 60
I've read most Android tutorials online, following the documentation from Google and was ready to give up until I stumbled unto this book from Amazon. The previous reviewers gave it such a glowing recommendation, I thought I'd try it. There were other books with more review, but less than stellar recommendations. So I want to echo what everyone else here is saying, if you're serious about learning to develop for the Android platform, you need to start here. This book comes with code references from every snippet referenced in the book and a safari pass to read it online for a limited time. So within one evening I was already using the Android API to interface with the hardware for such things like geolocation and playing music and video.
Anyway, this book is written by fellow programmers, so expect a few typos and grammatical errors. The logic and explanations however are sound and clear.
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