Android Fully Loaded - Softcover

Huddleston, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470930020 ISBN 13: 9780470930021

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

Get all the amazing power your Android smartphone has to offer!

The Motorola Droid has quickly become the fastest-selling smartphone, giving the iPhone a run for its money. This little book is packed with big tips for getting more into, and out of, an Android OS phone than ever thought possible. You’ll learn to take full advantage of features such as  the high-resolution digital camera, GPS, e-mail, Web browsing, location-based mapping, Google Calendar and Google Docs, hundreds of readily available apps, and tricks such as scanning a barcode to get product reviews or translating foreign signs.  

• Motorola Droid sales are booming, fueled by the Android OS’s amazing versatility and open access to apps
• This book shows how to put anything on an Android phone: old movies, TV shows, music, spreadsheets, presentations, Word documents, and much more
• Covers all the basic features such as Web browsing, using Facebook and Twitter, taking photos, playing music, and using e-mail
• Offers dozens of high-level tips and tricks for maximizing turn-by-turn navigation, using an Android as a broadband modem, scanning a barcode to access product reviews and comparing prices, syncing with Google services, and photographing objects for Google to identify

Android Fully Loaded enables you to take maximum advantage of your Android OS smartphone.

About this title

About the Author

ROB HUDDLESTON has been developing Web pages and applications since 1994, and has been teaching Web and graphic design fulltime since 1999. He has been named an Adobe Community Expert, and is the author of Teach Yourself Visually Web Design and several other books from Wiley.

From the Back Cover

Who'd think you'd fall in love with an Android?

Rob Huddleston did, back when the operating system made its debut. Android may not have been the first smartphone OS, but it's the one that shows how it can be done. Whether you want raw power, an open and ever-growing eco-system that encourages innovation in application development, or just the option to surf the actual, whole Web — including those millions of Flash-enabled sites — Android has the stuff. Here's how you get it all.

• Take and edit fabulous photos and HD video

• Read PDFs and create and edit Microsoft Office documents

• Skip the single-purpose GPS; cruise around town with the free turn-by-turn navigation app

• Surf the Web, watch videos, and play games on any site

• Download and use the must-have apps

• Follow social media, including Facebook and Twitter, on your phone

Get more out of—and into—your Android phone than you ever thought possible

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470930020
• ISBN 13: 9780470930021
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240