The Android Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK (2nd Edition) (Developer's Library)
Language: English
Published by AddisonWesley Professional, 2013
Series: Book 40 of 71 - Game Design
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- Title
- The Android Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK (2nd Edition) (Developer's Library)
- Author
- Schwarz, Ronan
- Publisher
- AddisonWesley Professional
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0321897536
- ISBN 13
- 9780321897534
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Series
- Book 40 of 71: Game Design
This edition has been extensively updated to reflect the other Android 4.2.2 releases. You’ll find all-new chapters on advanced threading and UI development, in-app billing, push messages, and native development, plus new techniques for everything from accessing NFC hardware to using Google Cloud Messaging.
Proven modular recipes take you from the basics all the way to advanced services, helping you to make the most of the newest Android APIs and tools. The authors’ fully updated code samples are designed to serve as templates for your own projects and components. You’ll learn best-practice techniques for efficiently solving common problems and for avoiding pitfalls throughout the entire development lifecycle. Coverage includes
- Organizing Android apps and integrating their activities
- Working efficiently with services, receivers, and alerts
- Managing threads, including advanced techniques using AsyncTasks and loaders
- Building robust, intuitive user interfaces
- Implementing advanced UI features, including Custom Views, animation, accessibility, and large screen support
- Capturing, playing, and manipulating media
- Interacting with SMS, websites, and social networks
- Storing data via SQLite and other methods
- Integrating in-app billing using Google Play services
- Managing push messaging with C2DM
- Leveraging new components and structures for native Android development
- Efficiently testing and debugging with Android’s latest tools and techniques, including LINT code analysis
The Android ™ Developer’s Cookbook, Second Edition, is all you need to jumpstart any Android project, and create high-value, feature-rich apps that sell.
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About the Author
Phil Dutson is lead eCommerce developer for ICON Health and Fitness. He wrote Sams Teach Yourself jQuery Mobile in 24 Hours.
James Steele, vice president of engineering at Sensor Platforms, focuses on helping app developers leverage user motion and context information more easily.
Nelson To markets multiple apps at Google Play. He has worked on enterprise Android apps for Think Computer, Inc., AOL (AIM), Stanford University, and Logitech.
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