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Android in Practice is a treasure trove of Android goodness, with over 90 tested, ready-to-use techniques including complete end-to-end example applications and practical tips for real world mobile application developers. Written by real world Android developers, this book addresses the trickiest questions raised in forums and mailing lists. Using an easy-to-follow problem/solution/discussion format, it dives into important topics not covered in other Android books, like advanced drawing and graphics, testing and instrumentation, building and deploying applications, and using alternative languages.
About the BookIt's not hard to find the information you need to build your first Android app. Then what? If you want to build real apps, you will need some how-to advice, and that's what this book is about.
Android in Practice is a rich source of Android tips, tricks, and best practices, covering over 90 clever and useful techniques that will make you a more effective Android developer. Techniques are presented in an easy-to-read problem/solution/discussion format. The book dives into important topics like multitasking and services, testing and instrumentation, building and deploying applications, and using alternative languages.
Purchase includes free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBooks downloadable at manning.com.
What's Inside- Techniques covering Android 1.x to 3.x
- Android for tablets
- Working with threads and concurrency
- Testing and building
- Using location awareness and GPS
- Styles and themes
And much more!
This book requires a working knowledge of Java, but no prior experience with Android is assumed.
Source Code can be found at https://code.google.com/p/android-in-practice/
Table of Contents
- Introducing Android
- Android application fundamentals
- Managing lifecycle and state
- Getting the pixels perfect
- Managing background tasks with Services
- Threads and concurrency
- Storing data locally
- Sharing data between apps
- HTTP networking and web services
- Location is everything
- Appeal to the senses using multimedia
- 2D and 3D drawing
- Testing and instrumentation
- Build management
- Developing for Android tablets
PART 1 BACKGROUND AND FUNDAMENTALS
PART 2 REAL WORLD RECIPES
PART 3 BEYOND STANDARD DEVELOPMENT
About the Author
Charlie Collins is a mobile and web developer at MOVL, a contributor to several open source projects, and a coauthor of GWT in Practice and Unlocking Android.
Michael Galpin is a developer at Bump Technologies and worked on two of the most downloaded apps on the Android Market, Bump, and eBay Mobile.
Matthias Kaeppler is an Android and API engineer at Qype, and he created or maintains the Android open source projects Signpost, Droid-Fu, and Calculon.
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This book provides coverage on many important topics that barely get a mention in other texts or within the official Google documentation, such as managing configuration changes with AsyncTask, handling http network failures and retries, creating database access layers for SQLite and using the styles & themes framework.
The authors have done a great job in balancing the material such that it provides a first time Android developer with a good introduction to the platform fundamentals as well as shedding light on some deeper concepts that will benefit even the most experienced of developers.
Highly recommended.
I use it more as a reference to getting things done, that reading it from start to end. This popular book pattern of "recipes" is good, even though some times it is taken too far where it just get ridiculous to begin every topic with a "problem"/"question". This book, however, is on the right side of that fence.
I'd say it is more for the advanced Android developer than the beginner. This was just what I was looking for.
The one thing I really like about this book is that it makes no compromisses in the quality of the examples. While other Android introductions typically avoid using advanced concepts, as asynchronous reading of web resources, for their introduction examples, this book uses the all the right concepts directly from the beginning. This might make this book a little bit heavy for Android starters but once you are over the initial learning experience you should get this one.
You also find lots of examples for typical implementation requirements, which are hard to find otherwise.
A must buy for any serious Android developer.
Perhaps just as importantly, for honest-to-FSM professional developers it includes good coverage of setting up a build and test environment that will work with your pre-existing CI process.
"Hello, Android" is great if you don't know what you are doing. If you are a professional software developer, this is the book for you.
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