Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach - Softcover

Friesen, Jeff; Smith, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 143023413X ISBN 13: 9781430234135

Publisher: Apress, 2011

Synopsis

Android continues to be one of the two leading mobile OS and development platforms driving today's mobile innovations and the apps ecosystem. Android appears complex, but offers a variety of organized development kits to those coming into Android with differing programming language skill sets. Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach guides you step by step through a wide range of useful topics using complete and real-world working code examples. In this book, you quickly get a refresh of Android architecture and app fundamentals, and then you get down to business and build an app with Google's Android SDK at the command line and Eclipse in an IDE context. Then you'll learn how to accomplish practical tasks pertaining to the user interface, communications with the cloud, device hardware, data persistence, communications between applications, and interacting with Android itself. Finally, you'll learn how to leverage various libraries and Scripting Layer for Android to help you perform tasks more quickly; how to use the Android NDK to boost app performance; and how to design apps for performance, responsiveness, seamlessness, and more. Instead of abstract descriptions of complex concepts, you find live code examples in this book. When you start a new project, you can consider copying and pasting the code and configuration files from this book, and then modifying them for your own customization needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch! What you'll learn Discover Android architecture and various Android-specific APIs. How to develop a Units Converter app in the context of command-line/Android SDK and Eclipse/Android SDK environments. How to accomplish various tasks related to the user interface and more. How to use external libraries to save time and effort. How to quickly develop an

About this title

About the Author:

Jeff Friesen is a freelance tutor and software developer with an emphasis on Java (and now Android). In addition to authoring Learn Java for Android Development and co-authoring Android Recipes -- Jeff has written numerous articles on Java and other technologies for JavaWorld (a href="http://www.JavaWorld.com"JavaWorld.com/a), informIT (a href="http://www.InformIT.com"InformIT.com/a), a href="http://www.java.net"Java.net/a, and DevSource (a href="http://www.DevSource.com"DevSource.com/a). Jeff can be contacted via his website at a href="http://www.tutortutor.ca"TutorTutor.ca/a.

About this edition

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 143023413X
• ISBN 13: 9781430234135
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 468