Murach's Android Programming (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Murach, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890774936 ISBN 13: 9781890774936

Publisher: Mike Murach and Associates, Inc., 2015

Synopsis

Want to learn how to develop Android apps? Then don't miss our new book: Murach's Android Programming (2nd Edition). It teaches you how to develop high-quality apps like the ones you can find in the Google Play store. The only prerequisite is a basic knowledge of Java. Everything else, including software installation, is covered.

To start, this book shows the Android Studio and Java skills you need to develop a Tip Calculator app for a smartphone or tablet. Then, it expands upon this app to show must-have Android skills such as working with layouts, widgets, events, themes, styles, menus, preferences, and fragments. Next, this book presents two more apps that illustrate Android skills programmers use every day, such as working with threads, files, adapters, intents, services, notifications, broadcast receivers, SQLite databases, content providers, and app widgets. Finally, this book presents an app that uses the Google Maps API and shows you how to submit your finished apps to the Google Play store.

The real-world apps let you see how the skills you're learning work together, and they illustrate how and when you'd use each skill. And all the content is presented in Murach's distinctive paired-pages style that developers find so clear and time-saving for both training and reference.

Also, the download for this book now includes a PDF file that shows how to take advantage of the new features of Android Studio that were introduced in 2017, and it shows how to fix some other issues so the apps presented in this book still work correctly with the latest versions of Android.

About this title

About the Author

Joel Murach is the oldest son of publishing pioneer Mike Murach. Joel has been writing and editing books about computer programming for over 20 years now. During that time, he has written extensively on a wide range of Java, .NET, web, and database technologies. He has had best-selling books in all of those categories! In his books, you can see his clear approach to teaching any subject.Besides being a successful author, Joel is also a very talented musician. He writes and performs for his band, Joel Murach and the Low Rollers with regularity in the Bay Area.

Review

"I like the fact that the book approaches the subject by using example apps as the theme of study, and working through the skills incrementally from easy to difficult. These case-study apps are complete apps by themselves and are worthy of being in the Android app stores." --Jason Ong, ASP.NET World

About this edition

• Publisher: Mike Murach and Associates, Inc.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1890774936
• ISBN 13: 9781890774936
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 690