Programming Android [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 502 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (August 5, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1449389694
• ISBN-13: 978-1449389697
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  

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Customer Reviews

I had a need for using Android in a research setting for advanced
mobile networking. Though I have a strong Java and mobile programming
background, I have no familiarity with Android. I needed to get up
to speed quickly, and thought I would go with an OReilly book, usually
a good bet.
I ended up using the intro to quickly
get started with eclipse, and then moved into the view section to put
together an interface without much trouble (useful examples),
and am looking at the
advanced sections to learn about Android's NFC feature. The 3rd
section is enlightening, saving me from some design mistakes that I was
sure to make. I did, however, feel that some of the information in the
later chapters was over
my head, targeted at an audience with more outside knowledge.
Overall, the book is both good at introducing the basics of Android,
and covering the more advanced topics.

This book goes past the basics and provides a deeper level of understading of every topic it touches. It has a particular focus on how Android's data archiecture provides a model for apps that use a Web service, improving apperent
performance and presentation of data.
It is also the first in-depth book to cover Fragment and related classes that go into making Android tablet user interfaces. Additionally, it covers the compatibility library that enables running Fragment-based UIs on pre-Honeycomb versions of Android.

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