Android Programming Tutorials: Easy-To-Follow Training-Style Exercises on Android Application Development - Softcover

Mark Lawrence Murphy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981678025 ISBN 13: 9780981678023

Publisher: CommonsWare, LLC, 2009

Synopsis

Android Programming Tutorials show you what you can do with Android, through a series of 42 individual exercises. Android Programming Tutorials gives you hands-on instruction in how to build sophisticated Android applications, using many of the technologies outlined in CommonsWare's other Android books.

These exercises lead you through the basics of creating Android applications, all the way through many fun Android features like Internet access, location tracking, maps, integrated WebKit browsers, cameras, accelerometers, and much more. Full source code to all the exercise answers is available right on this page, to help you if you get stuck. Android Programming Tutorials makes an excellent companion volume to more traditional Android books that merely tell you what is possible.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Murphy is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development, The Busy Coder's Guide to Advanced Android Development, Beginning Android, and Android Programming Tutorials. A three-time entrepreneur, his experience ranges from consulting on open source and collaborative development for the Fortune 500 to application development on just about anything smaller than a mainframe. He has been a software developer for over 25 years, from the TRS-80 to the latest crop of mobile devices. A polished speaker, Mr. Murphy has delivered conference presentations and training sessions on a wide array of topics internationally.

Mr. Murphy writes the Building 'Droids column for AndroidGuys and the Android Angle column for NetworkWorld.

From the Back Cover

Welcome!

Android devices are being adopted rapidly, and Android allows you to craft applications that can be deployed onto these devices, even sold through the Android Market.

Creating such applications is not always easy, however. That is the reason for this book.

Along with its companion volumes from CommonsWare, you get a broad and deep picture of how to create interesting and useful applications for Android. This book in particular leads you through a set of exercises, slowly building up a pair of major applications, to see various Android development techniques in context and in use. For those of you who "learn by doing", this book is your way to pick up Android application development.This book's digital counterpart will be updated periodically; the print copy will also be updated, though less frequently. The digital edition is available via the Warescription, whereby you can get the entire line of CommonsWare books and updates for a year for one low fee.And, if you have any questions about the book or the exercises, join the cw-android Google Group, and we will be happy to help!

Edition details

• Publisher: CommonsWare, LLC
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0981678025
• ISBN 13: 9780981678023
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 422