
Android Recipes
A Problem-Solution Approach
APress
Published on 3. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 456 pages
978-1-4302-3413-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 guides you step-by-step through a wide range of useful topics using complete and real-world working code examples.
In this book, you'll start off with a recap of Android architecture and app fundamentals, and then get down to business and build an app with Google's Android SDK at the command line and Eclipse. Next, 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 (SL4A) 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, 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. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch!
More details
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Target group
Popular/general
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XII, 456 p.
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 192 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
790 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4302-3413-5 (9781430234135)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4302-3414-2
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
08/2011
APress
€36.99
Available for download
Persons
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.
Content
* Getting Started with Android * User Interface Recipes * Communications and Networking * Interacting with Device Hardware and Media * Persisting Data * Interacting with the System * Working with Libraries * Scripting Layer for Android * Android NDK * App Design Guidelines