Android App Development for Electronics Designers - Softcover

Dogan Ibrahim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907920714 ISBN 13: 9781907920714

Publisher: Elektor, 2019

Synopsis

This book describes how an Android mobile device can communicate with a variety of hardware platforms including Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and the ESP32 processor over a Wi-Fi link or by using SMS text messages. Some of the projects show how data packets can be sent from a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or ESP32 processor to an Android mobile phone and then displayed on the mobile phone. All the Android projects in this book were developed using the B4A programming language. The book begins with a description of how to install the B4A on a PC. Pro makers, students, and hobbyists can develop apps for Android mobile devices using the Basic For Android (B4A) programming language and Integrated Development Environment (B4A IDE). Dr. Dogan Ibrahim begins Android App Development for Electronics Designers with a description of how to install the B4A on a PC. He then presents simple projects to introduce B4A s syntax and programming features. Electronics designers will enjoy this book because it describes how an Android mobile device can communicate with a variety of hardware platforms including Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and the ESP32 processor over a Wi-Fi link or by using SMS text messages. Some of the projects show how data packets can be sent from a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or ESP32 processor to an Android mobile phone and then displayed on the mobile phone. All the Android projects in this book were developed using the B4A programming language. The Raspberry Pi projects were developed using Python. Arduino and the ESP32 processor projects make use of the popular Arduino IDE. Full program listings for all the projects as well as the detailed program descriptions are given in the book. Users should be able to use the projects as they are presented or modify them to suit to their own needs.

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Review

B4A is an easily accessible method of developing your own Android apps from scratch. The trial version is satisfactory to say the least. The book rightly gives B4A the attention it deserves in the highly diversified and competitive field of programming tools for Android hardware and interfacing. Bringing in good fellas like the Arduino, RPi, ESP32 and especially Wi-Fi, adds a perfect bridge for many fans of these computerettes to cross with ease towards total connectivity of their home developed programs running on an Android smartphone. As a minor criticism of the book, it is slightly lacking in personal tone and ways of expressing the relative difficulty or fun factor of the projects. Also, problems, mishaps and bugs encountered during the development of the projects are rare if not non-existent in the book when surely they must have occurred an occasional mention should not have distracted from the strong educational impact the book exhibits. --elektormagazine.com/news/book-review-android-apps-development-with-basic-for-android-b4a

Edition details

• Publisher: Elektor
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907920714
• ISBN 13: 9781907920714
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242