Android 4

by Grant Allen

Vytvořte si pro svůj telefon vlastní aplikaci, která bude přesně odpovídat vašim požadavkům. V 49 krátkých, přehledných kapitolách se postupně seznámíte s vývojem pro platformu Android. Autor vás naučí používat základní prvky uživatelského rozhraní, vytvářet aplikační logiku a také to, jak vše propojit ve funkční celek. Probírané postupy jsou univerzální, lze je využít při tvorbě aplikací pro mobilní telefony i tablety.

656 pages, Paperback

First published December 21, 2011

Reviews

[Alex Moskalyuk · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book gives a good understanding of components of an Android app, current state of development ecosystem (e.g., how half-baked Fragments are, when you try to use them with MapView or other fragment-related activities), and provides a good overview of decisions behind those components (why use data providers, why rely on asynchronous services, how to write properly updating Internet-connected applications).

All chapters (and there are 49 of them) follow pretty much the same pattern - introduction into the problem, explanation of how the problem can be resolved in Android, as well as sample app that solves that specific problem. This makes the book more of a reference title, as chapters could be read out of sequence (although if you're new to Android, it makes sense to cover the first few parts in sequence).

Both Java and XML are pretty verbose, so author makes a decent attempt to cut down on the boilerplate code and concentrate on what matters.

[Tomasz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite interesting. Too detailed in some places. It was worth reading.