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Professional Android 2 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) | 
 enlarge | Author: Reto Meier
Publisher: Wrox
Category: Book
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 4448
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 576
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0470565527
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1
EAN: 9780470565520
ASIN: 0470565527
Publication Date: March 1, 2010
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Product Description
Build unique mobile applications with the latest Android SDK Written by an Android authority, this up-to-date resource shows you how to leverage the features of Android 2 to enhance existing products or create innovative new ones. Serving as a hands-on guide to building mobile apps using Android, the book walks you through a series of sample projects that introduces you to Android's new features and techniques. Using the explanations and examples included in these pages, you'll acquire the foundation needed to write compelling mobile applications that use Android, along with the flexibility to quickly adapt to future enhancements. Professional Android 2 Application Development: -
Reviews Android as a development platform and¿best practices for mobile development -
Provides an in-depth look at the Android application components -
Details creating layouts and Views to produce compelling resolution independent user interfaces -
Examines Intents and Content Providers for sharing data -
Introduces techniques for creating map-based applications and using location-based services such as GPS -
Looks at how to create and use background Services, Notifications, and Alarms -
Demonstrates how to create interactive homescreen components -
Explores the Bluetooth, telephony, and networking APIs -
Examines using hardware, including the camera and sensors such as the compass and accelerometers Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job. 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. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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 Professional Android 2 is the real thing August 26, 2010
Juan J. Mendez (Chicago, IL United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A great book, very impressed with the introduction. i was struggling with other two books including Hello Android. but the authors of this book care for starters to understand concepts first. for example another book i used went directly to use the static class R, and i couldn't figure what it meant. As i struggle looking at complex examples, only helped me to get more familiar with Android 2, but now i am having a clearer understanding. I really recommend this book to others like me who are starting. In my case, this book helps me understand by giving small examples rather than looking to an endless sudoku example from Hello Android. :) You will see it when you read it.
 Not your beginners book August 2, 2010
dogdac (Dayton, OH)
I am new to mobile programming as well as Java. But, not new to programming in general (Javascript, C++, C#, Delphi, PHP, SQL etc)... This book doesn't cut it. I first had to get a JAVA language book just to understand the code in this book. I'm okay with that due to it's not a language book. However, the samples are WAY to terse and don't even follow examples from previous examples while explaining the SAME THING!
Case in point: Learning DB chapter. He tells us to create a "helper class" for the DB. It is completely flushed out with a simple Tabled called "MainTable" but, then never uses in any 'real world' examples. Like when we get to "Extracting Results from a Cursor", he has very sparse code reading from a Table we never created ("GoldHords")??!
Not a big deal except to read the code, you kinda need the column number to know what he is "reading"!
 Good book for beginners in Android App development July 18, 2010
yoshi
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am half way through this book and I am really glad I purchased it. I tried to learn from the Android Developers site prior to purchasing this book, but I couldn't learn very efficiently from the website. There are only few sample codes with explanations available, and the contents provided on the website are usually not covered in depth. This book covers wide range of topics in depth, and provides plethora of sample codes so you can practice developing application from scratch.
There are, however, many errors on the text. Some of the sample apps doesn't run like they are supposed to, and often times I have to run the Eclipse's debugger to figure out why the app crashed during the run-time. However, I feel that debugging really helped me to understand the application in depth. Actually I think I learned more from debugging broken codes than from reading the text. I am very sure that the author did not put buggy codes in there to help us practice some application debugging skill, but I am glad I got some debugging practice. As a matter of fact, when you start developing application of your own, you would encounter countless bugs and you would have to fix it on your own. I did get frustrated at some of the typos and that is why the rating is 4 and not 5, but I do think that you can use the errors on the text to your advantages by practicing some debugging.
Overall it is a good book for a beginner in Android App Development.
P.S. In order to understand the materials covered in the book completely and in depth, Java and Object-Oriented Programming knowledge is essential.
 Errors abound but book is good overall July 15, 2010
Joel C. Witherspoon (Covina, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found the book had several errors and omissions but overall it's concise and to the point. I feel the audience is developers with some experience on IDE's and SDKs and with Java (hence the term "Professional"). This book is not for beginning developers looking to pop out the quick app. I was surprised that this was a Wrox book - and not an O'Reilly - as many Wrox books were filled with fluff and little substance. This book was quite the opposite.
Fantastic reading July 15, 2010
A. Radesca
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book that gives a lot of useful information about Android programming. It cover all most important aspects of Android Programming. Nice really...
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