Overview
- Beginning Android, Fifth Edition starts you on the path to developing innovative and salable apps for Android SDK 5 and earlier version compliant mobile devices, using simple examples that are ready to run with your copy of the latest Software Development Kit (SDK).
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Get Android and Get Coding!
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Activities and the User Interface
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A World of Wonderful Devices and Screens
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Working with Resources and Services
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About this book
Get started in creating marketable apps for the burgeoning Android market. Begin your journey by learning the essentials of programming for phones and tables that are built around Google's wildly-successful Android platform. Beginning Android, Fifth Edition is fresh with details on the latest iteration of the Android 5 and earlier versions.
Google’s Android operating-system has taken the industry by storm, going from its humble beginnings as a smartphone operating system to its current status as a platform for apps that run across a gamut of devices from phones to tablets to netbooks to televisions, and the list is sure to grow. Smart developers are not sitting idly by in the stands, but are jumping into the game of creating innovative and salable applications for this fast-growing, mobile- and consumer-device platform. If you’re not in the game yet, now is your chance!
Begin at the beginning by installing the tools and compiling a skeleton app. Move through creating layouts, employing widgets, taking user input, and giving back results. Soon you’ll be creating innovative applications involving multi-touch, multi-tasking, and more! You’ll be drawing data live from the Internet using web services and delighting your customers with life-enhancing apps. Not since the PC era first began has there been this much opportunity for the common developer. What are you waiting for? Grab your copy of Beginning Android and get started!
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning Android
Authors: Grant Allen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4687-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Grant Allen 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-4686-2Published: 16 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-4687-9Published: 18 December 2015
Edition Number: 5
Number of Pages: XXV, 411
Number of Illustrations: 138 b/w illustrations