Create must–have applications for the latest Android OS The Android OS is a popular and flexible platform for many of today′s most in–demand mobile devices. This full–color guide offers you a hands–on introduction to creating Android applications for the latest mobile devices. Veteran author Wei Meng Lee accompanies each lesson with real–world examples to drive home the content he covers. Beginning with an overview of core Android features and tools, he moves at a steady pace while teaching everything you need to know to successfully develop your own Android applications. Explains what an activity is and reviews its lifecycle Zeroes in on customizing activities by applying styles and themes Looks at the components of a screen, including LinearLayout, AbsoluteLayout, and RelativeLayout, among others Details ways to adapt to different screen sizes and adjust display orientation Reviews the variety of views such as TextView, ProgressBar, TimePicker, and more Beginning Android Application Development pares down the most essential steps you need to know so you can start creating Android applications today.
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Create applications for the latest Android OS The Android OS is a popular and flexible platform for many of today′s most in–demand mobile devices. This full–color guide offers you a hands–on introduction to creating Android applications for the latest mobile devices. Veteran author Wei–Meng Lee accompanies each lesson with real–world examples to drive home the content he covers. Beginning with an overview of core Android features and tools, the author proceeds to teach everything you need to know to successfully develop your own Android applications. Beginning Android Application Development : Explains what an activity is and reviews its lifecycle Zeroes in on how to customize activities by applying styles and themes Looks at the components of a screen, including LinearLayout, AbsoluteLayout, and RelativeLayout, among others Details ways to adapt to different screen sizes and adjust display orientation Reviews the variety of views such as TextView, ProgressBar, TimePicker, and more Covers SMS messaging and networking Walks you through how to create an Android Service and interact with it Pares down the most essential steps for publishing Android applications Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved. wrox.com Programmer Forums Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world. Code Downloads Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use. Read More Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.
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Wei–Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions (www.learn2develop.net). He writes extensively for online publications and magazines on topics ranging from .NET to Mac OS X. In addition, he is the author of Beginning iOS 4 Application Development , as well as many other technology books and articles.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I viewed many books on here regarding Android development and, thinking I was indeed the target audience, I started with Android Development for Dummies.... Although not a bad book, it doesn't cover anyway near the amount this book does and not in as much detail either. The basics are all covered first, especially the layouts and then each item and how each item is handled (ie: buttons, checkboxes) You do create many apps, but repetative exercises are good for learning.
I actually want to read every single page in this book and find it well put together, informative, and examples are easily followed. Very glad I got this book rather than being disappointed by others!
I actually want to read every single page in this book and find it well put together, informative, and examples are easily followed. Very glad I got this book rather than being disappointed by others!
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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I agree with those reviewers who gave this book 4 and 5 stars; their reviews are accurate and this book is a good book for beginning Android programming in that there are very clear explanations and very helpful exercises.
The reason why I have only given it one star is that it is NOT a book for a person initiating their programming skills with Android as the current release of the Android SDK plug-in to Eclipse has too many differences from the book. I stumbled for ages on the first exercise where it reported that the android:icon referenced was in error - turned out that it wasn't my typing - the image name wasn't present as expected, there is a new one in it's place.
All the reported faults from the errata web site have been included in the issue I purchased (January 2012) but sadly the book is out of date with the Android world.
So, I repeat, if you are a newbie to any programming stay away from this book until it can be updated to current development.
The reason why I have only given it one star is that it is NOT a book for a person initiating their programming skills with Android as the current release of the Android SDK plug-in to Eclipse has too many differences from the book. I stumbled for ages on the first exercise where it reported that the android:icon referenced was in error - turned out that it wasn't my typing - the image name wasn't present as expected, there is a new one in it's place.
All the reported faults from the errata web site have been included in the issue I purchased (January 2012) but sadly the book is out of date with the Android world.
So, I repeat, if you are a newbie to any programming stay away from this book until it can be updated to current development.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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All the basics, with few missing areas for the beginner, but good overall.
Bit naughty in that it uses lots of anonymous inner classes - which on a mobile platform costs memory and makes it harder to follow. You have to READ everything to make sure you don't miss anything too and the later explanations can be a bit unnecessary but better than skipping over things too lightly.
Final word - with this and another book I fairly easily managed to make and publish an Android app in under a month.
Bit naughty in that it uses lots of anonymous inner classes - which on a mobile platform costs memory and makes it harder to follow. You have to READ everything to make sure you don't miss anything too and the later explanations can be a bit unnecessary but better than skipping over things too lightly.
Final word - with this and another book I fairly easily managed to make and publish an Android app in under a month.
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Good but hard going
I have only got through chapter 2 so far. The book guides you 'how to' fairly well but is a bit short on the reasoning. Read more
Published 3 months ago by F. M. Tulley
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New version
For information: This book was published in April 2011 and there is now an Android 4 version published March 2012.
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Good book for beginners
As a beginner in Android programming I liked the book, it is easy and has good progressive examples. Has good printing quality.
Published 12 months ago by OneAmazonShopper
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A very good book for rusy programers
I found this to be an excellent book. I'm an experienced (if rusty) programer with a background in C and VB, so I needed to understand the foibles of developing for Android. Read more
Published 14 months ago by E. Stewart
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Not for programming newbs!
Only on chapter 3 and I'm a bit overwhelmed already, within the second chapter the book has you typing out 2 page spreads of code into various xml files. Read more
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Having started to develop in Android in my free hours I had been always reading stuff from the Internet, mainly from Android Developers site. Read more
Published 16 months ago by HMTVALADAS
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Good book
Quite a good book, as a person quite rusty to java I found it a bit difficult to get into but further studying around what I didn't understand (which helps me learn anyway) made... Read more
Published 17 months ago by James
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Perfect for Beginners
This book has everything you need for beginners who want to learn Android.
It starts of with the well known, "Hello World" and explains the terminology required for... Read more
It starts of with the well known, "Hello World" and explains the terminology required for... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Chirag
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Good introduction
I'm wanting to get into android development as a hobby. This book's been a really good introduction to that. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Andrew Mcadam
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A WINNER - As far as Android books go
I've read about 3 books on Android Development, Hello Android, Sams Teach Yourself (24 Hours) and this book. Read more
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