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Programming Android: Java Programming for the New Generation of Mobile Devices [Paperback]

Zigurd Mednieks (Author), Laird Dornin (Author), G. Blake Meike (Author), Masumi Nakamura (Author)
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Publication Date: 5 Aug 2011 | ISBN-10: 1449389694 | ISBN-13: 978-1449389697 | Edition: 1

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 build apps on the platform of your choice. If you're an intermediate to advanced programmer, you'll learn how to make great Android apps.

  • Learn how to use the Android SDK with the Eclipse IDE
  • Apply advanced Java concepts regardless of your experience with the language
  • Create an Android user interface that's captivating and easy to navigate
  • Use the Fragment API for tablet user interfaces
  • Make your application compatible with Honeycomb and earlier versions
  • Understand Android's unique database design issues and the role of SQLite
  • Use sensors and gestures to expand your app's input beyond just tapping and scrolling
  • Explore Android APIs for multimedia, location, communication, NFC, and other applications

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  • Paperback: 504 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (5 Aug 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449389694
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449389697
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 2.7 x 23.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 278,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Zigurd R. Mednieks
Laird Dornin
Masumi Nakamura
G. Blake Meike

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Zigurd Mednieks is a consultant to leading OEMs, enterprises, and entrepreneurial ventures creating Android-based systems and software. Previously he was Chief Architect at D2 Technologies, a voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology provider. There he lead engineering and product definition work for products that blended communication and social media in purpose-built embedded systems and on the Android platform.

Laird Dornin is a mobile development architect with extensive experience in Java, Android, J2ME, SavaJe, and the webkit browser library. He was a member of the J2SE development team at Sun Microsystems specializing in java.rmi and Jini technology. Laird is currently a Senior Engineer at a major wireless carrier, where he provides Android architectural guidance and Network API support to members of the carrier's developer community.

Blake Meike is a software engineer with more than 20 years of experience, much of it with Java. He has built systems as large as Amazon's massively scalable AutoScaling service and as small as a pre-Android OSS/Linux based Java-like platform for cell-phones. Blake is currently an Android Evangelist, working at Marakana. He is co-author of two O'Reilly books on Android, including the best-selling, "Programming Android".

With over a decade of software engineering experience, Masumi Nakamura has worked in various positions within the mobile technology arena, from building out mobile infrastructure to founding his own mobile company. He was one of the primary Android developers of the Where Android app and now is Principal Architect for the Big Data and Recommendations Group at Where, Inc. Outside of coding, he spends his time practicing Ba Gua Zhang and caring for his two cats.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Programming Android - How to develop a well behaved android appication 6 Feb 2012
By R. J. Amphlett
Format:Paperback
This book claims to explain how to create well behaved android applications. It certainly explains activities but fails to give a single example, that I can find, of how to move from one activity to another. The word intend is mentioned and there is a small section on tasks but where is the code example?
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read in a new generation of Android books 8 Aug 2011
By A. Jaokar
Format:Paperback
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.

A must read in a new generation of Android books!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, but some padding 26 Jan 2012
By AndyC
Format:Paperback
The best sections of this book - like the chapters on views and fragments - are easily of five star standard, but they are let down by some others (particularly towards the start) which are less good. The chapter on Java, for example, veers wildly between the basic (types) and the obscure (fine details of how to handle thread safety) and it is hard to see who exactly it is aimed at. I would likewise question whether a book aimed at this "beyond the basics" level needs such a long and detailed introduction to Eclipse and building a "hello world" Android project (information which is widely available elsewhere). It is a shame that this space wasn't used for other material up to the high standard of the rest of the book - it feels very much like one of the book's four authors was put in charge of these first chapters and let down the others.
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