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Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Android continues to be one of the leading mobile OS and development platforms driving today's mobile innovations and the apps ecosystem. Androidappears complex, but offers a variety of organized development kits to those coming into Android with differing programming language skill sets Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach guides you step-by-step through a wide range of useful topics using complete and real-world working code examples. In this book, you'll start off with a recap of Android architecture and app fundamentals, and then get down to business and build an app with Google's Android SDK at the command line and Eclipse. Next, you'll learn how to accomplish practical tasks pertaining to the user interface, communications with the cloud, device hardware, data persistence, communications between applications, and interacting with Android itself. Finally, you'll learn how to leverage various libraries and Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A)to help you perform tasks more quickly, how to use the Android NDK to boost app performance, and how to design apps for performance, responsiveness, seamlessness, and more. Instead of abstract descriptions of complex concepts, in Android Recipes, you'll find live code examples. When you start a new project, you can consider copying and pasting the code and configuration files from this book, then modifying them for your own customization needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch! What you'll learn Discover Android architecture and various Android-specific APIs How to develop a unit conversion app in the context of command-line/Android SDK and Eclipse/Android SDK environments How to accomplish various tasks related to the user interface and more How to use external libraries to save time and effort How to quickly develop an app using the Scripting Layerfor Android (SL4A) tool How to boost app performance by using the Android NDK Guidelines for designing filtered apps, performant apps, responsive apps, and seamless apps Who this book is for
Newcomers to Android, as well as more accomplished Android developers. Table of Contents Getting Started with Android User Interface Recipes Communications and Networking Interacting with Device Hardware and Media Persisting Data Interacting with the System Working with Libraries Scripting Layer for Android Android NDK App Design Guidelines
Newcomers to Android, as well as more accomplished Android developers. Table of Contents Getting Started with Android User Interface Recipes Communications and Networking Interacting with Device Hardware and Media Persisting Data Interacting with the System Working with Libraries Scripting Layer for Android Android NDK App Design Guidelines
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First published March 21, 2011
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August 13, 2012
The Good:
Some interesting stuff to read here and there.
The Bad:
- very few (almost none) screen-shots.
so you get these line of codes spreading over many pages but you don't exactly know what you're supposed to be looking at.
I guess a best approach would have been to show what we are going to build first... so that the code makes a bit more sense.
- you have huge portions of code (several pages) followed by a lengthy explanation.
rather hard to read as you must jump back and forth between the code and the explanation
- the code is in black and white and very poorly rendered in the kindle on iPad (when are they going to realize that a PDF is way much better for this kind of books?)
- 1st chapter seems very out of place with a lengthy explanation that somehow fails to really explain what it is supposed to do (Broadcast,Services,Content providers are very poorly explained and out of context).
- the source code is available but you only get the class or xml file,
not an Eclipse project you can build/run (if there were screen-shots I wouldn't mind... but there aren't any... Eclipse projects would have helped clearing things up!)...
Some interesting stuff to read here and there.
The Bad:
- very few (almost none) screen-shots.
so you get these line of codes spreading over many pages but you don't exactly know what you're supposed to be looking at.
I guess a best approach would have been to show what we are going to build first... so that the code makes a bit more sense.
- you have huge portions of code (several pages) followed by a lengthy explanation.
rather hard to read as you must jump back and forth between the code and the explanation
- the code is in black and white and very poorly rendered in the kindle on iPad (when are they going to realize that a PDF is way much better for this kind of books?)
- 1st chapter seems very out of place with a lengthy explanation that somehow fails to really explain what it is supposed to do (Broadcast,Services,Content providers are very poorly explained and out of context).
- the source code is available but you only get the class or xml file,
not an Eclipse project you can build/run (if there were screen-shots I wouldn't mind... but there aren't any... Eclipse projects would have helped clearing things up!)...
May 28, 2011
A must-have book if you are doing Android programming. It is cookbook style, but also goes in-depth in certain places and somehow covers most of the bases. Each recipe has the associated API level as well, which is important. Note that some common issues are identified and addressed which are not obvious from the official documentation.
If you buy this from Apress directly, you can get downloads for both Kindle and iBooks as well as PDF.
If you buy this from Apress directly, you can get downloads for both Kindle and iBooks as well as PDF.
January 4, 2013
A good Android book with lots of WORKING examples. The only down side is that it doesn't have many screenshots, so that you often have to copy/paste everything into Eclipse to see the results.
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