Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

by Dave Smith, Jeff Friesen

Overview

Android continues to be one of the 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, Second Edition offers more than 100 down-to-earth code recipes, and guides you step-by-step through a wide range of useful topics using complete and real-world working code examples. It's updated to include the Jelly Bean Android SDK as well as earlier releases.

Instead of abstract descriptions of complex concepts, in Android Recipes, you'll find live code examples. When you start a new project, you can consider copying and pasting the code and configuration files from this book, then modifying them for your own customization needs.

Crammed with insightful instruction and helpful examples, this second edition of Android Recipes is your guide to writing apps for one of today’s hottest mobile platforms. It offers pragmatic advice that will help you get the job done quickly and well. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430246145
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	960
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 7.50(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

Dave Smith is a professional engineer developing hardware and software for mobile and embedded platforms. Dave's engineering efforts are currently focused full-time on Android and iOS development. Since 2009, Dave has worked on developing at all levels of the Android platform, from writing user applications using the software development kit, to building and customizing the Android source code. Dave regularly communicates via his development blog (http://blog.wiresareobsolete.com) and Twitter stream @devunwired.

Table of Contents

1. Layouts and Views.- 2. User Interaction.- 3. Communications and Networking.- 4. Interacting with Device Hardware and Media.- 5. Persisting Data.- 6. Interacting with the System.- 7. Graphics and Drawing.- 8. Working with Android NDK and Renderscript.