Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 456 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook; 1st edition (May 2, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 143023413X
- ISBN-13: 978-1430234135
eBook Description:
Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
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. Android continues to be one of the leading mobile OS and development platforms driving today’s mobile innovations and the apps ecosystem. Android appears complex, but offers a variety of organized development kits to those coming into Android with differing programming language skill sets.
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: A Problem-Solution Approach, 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!
Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is your user guide full of cookbook code recipes-ideal for rapidly understanding and using Google’s open- source Android platform.
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 Layer 4 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.
About the Author
Jeff Friesen is a freelance tutor and software developer with an emphasis on Java (and now Android). In addition to writing Android Recipes, Jeff has written numerous articles on Java and other technologies for JavaWorld (JavaWorld.com), informIT (InformIT.com), Java.net, and DevSource (DevSource.com). Jeff can be contacted via his website at TutorTutor.ca.
Dave Smith is a professional engineer developing hardware and software for mobile and embedded platforms. Dave’s engineering efforts are currently focused full-time on Android and iOS development. Since 2009, Dave has worked on developing at all levels of the Android platform, from writing user applications using the software development kit, to building and customizing the Android source code. Dave regularly communicates via his development blog (http://blog.wiresareobsolete.com) and Twitter stream @devunwired.
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