Programming Android
date : August 16th, 2011Andoid Smartphone
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What does it take to build well-engineered Android applications? Explore Android’s core building blocks and APIs in depth with this authoritative guide, and learn how to create compelling apps that work on a full range of Android devices. You’ll work with proven approaches to app design and implementation—including application frameworks that you can use as a starting point for your own projects. Delve into sensors, native development, 3D graphics, and many other topics, and discover how to bu
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Great chapter 6 section on how Eclipse “works”,
If you can remember your first time using Eclipse or any Java derivative language you will fully appreciate the pragmatic section in Chapter 6 that explains both what the different Java libraries are, which you should use and which to avoid. In addition explaining the basic’s of using Eclipse and which folders to put in scm and which to ignore is great especially for new (iOS) coders who are learning Java. Chapter 8 also explains exactly how to use fragments, not as much about the why they exist but you can read about that on the android blog about the very topic.
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I can’t wait a 4.0 / Ice Cream update.
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|A must read in a new generation of Android books.,
This book goes past the basics and provides a deeper level of understading of every topic it touches. It has a particular focus on how Android’s data archiecture provides a model for apps that use a Web service, improving apperent
performance and presentation of data.
It is also the first in-depth book to cover Fragment and related classes that go into making Android tablet user interfaces. Additionally, it covers the compatibility library that enables running Fragment-based UIs on pre-Honeycomb versions of Android.
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|Good as Both Intro to Android and Guide to Advanced Topics,
I had a need for using Android in a research setting for advanced
mobile networking. Though I have a strong Java and mobile programming
background, I have no familiarity with Android. I needed to get up
to speed quickly, and thought I would go with an OReilly book, usually
a good bet.
I ended up using the intro to quickly
get started with eclipse, and then moved into the view section to put
together an interface without much trouble (useful examples),
and am looking at the
advanced sections to learn about Android’s NFC feature. The 3rd
section is enlightening, saving me from some design mistakes that I was
sure to make. I did, however, feel that some of the information in the
later chapters was over
my head, targeted at an audience with more outside knowledge.
Overall, the book is both good at introducing the basics of Android,
and covering the more advanced topics.
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