Professional Android 2 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
date : August 16th, 2011Andoid Smartphone
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- ISBN13: 9780470565520
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Update to the bestseller now features the latest release of the Android platformAndroid is a powerful, flexible, open source platform for mobile devices and its popularity is growing at an unprecedented pace. This update to the bestselling first edition dives in to cover the exciting new features of the latest release of the Android mobile platform.Providing in-depth coverage of how to build mobile applications using the next major release of the Android SDK, this invaluable resource takes a han
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Good Book (But Could Be Better),
Android 2 is pretty new (as of March 2010) so having an Android 2 book on the market that is good quality was unexpected. I have not read all chapters, but here are my impressions so far:
Pro’s
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- Author’s style is neither dull or exciting, just to the point. Most explanations are clear and thorough.
- I definitely feel I have a good resource to complement the online Android docs. There have been a variety of topics I’ve tried to answer using Android docs (and Google searches) without much luck that this book covered clearly.
- There are a lot of good topics covered. Space is not wasted on reprinting information readily available online. Instead, author regularly refers reader to web links.
- And, finally, I appreciate the well-edited index.
Con’s
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- The book is very weak in the illustration department. For example, instead of showing an image of a NinePatch bitmap, the author explains how a NinePatch should be constructed. This is chintzy and unforgivable for a book about a heavily visual technology.
- Occassionally, concepts are introduced without providing context. ‘Kinda like when you walk into a meeting and the speakers clearly know their material but forget that 90% of the others in the room need to be brought up to speed before instructing.
- Some conspicuous omissions. For instance, no information on fonts.
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|Quite a few errors, but still the best of my choice out of all Android books,
I’m a software engineer with 3 years of experience developing Windows Mobile applications.
I needed a book which is
* In-Depth – Perhaps one of the most in-depth Android books available.
* Updated – This book is one of the most updated books on Android, covering Android SDK 2.1 r1.
* Lots of sample code to complement the shortcomings of the online Android Developer Guide.
This book meets all of my requirements.
Being a careful reader, I found many errors just by reading Chapters 3 and 5 alone.
I’ve posted these errors on publisher’s errata page and also on this book’s forum.
No book is perfect, therefore misspellings and misprints are tolerable.
But incorrect or outdated information is not, therefore I hope the author can correct
these errors in the next print.
Depite these errors, I still give this book a rating of 4 because of other qualities, and the
author was very keen to address these errors.
Just like reading any other books, one just needs to be careful in reading, perhaps the best approach is
to read it along with the online Android Developer Guide.
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|Great book for someone trying to break into app development.,
I only started writing Android apps back in November of 2009. In that time, I’ve been under the false assumption that everything I need, I’ll be able to find online.
Although it’s probably true that a lot of the information in here can be found online, the real benefit to Meier’s book is that it’s very well organized. I didn’t realize how disorganized I was until I decided to get this book. It is pretty easy to understand and makes a great reference.
Anyway, I keep hearing about how this book is great if you have a lot of experience, but I just wanted to say it’s great if you don’t have any experience, too.
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