Android Wireless Application Development Second Edition Lauren Darcey Shane Conder The start-to-finish guide to Android application massively updated for the newest SDKs and developer techniques! This book delivers all the up-to-date information, tested code, and best practices you need to create and market successful mobile apps with the latest versions of Android. Drawing on their extensive experience with mobile and wireless development, Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder cover every concept, design, coding, testing, packaging, and delivery. The authors introduce the Android platform, explain the principles of effective Android application design, and present today’s best practices for crafting effective user interfaces. Next, they offer detailed coverage of each key Android API, including data storage, networking, telephony, location-based services, multimedia, 3D graphics, and hardware. Every chapter of this edition has been updated for the newest Android SDKs, tools, utilities, and hardware. All sample code has been overhauled and tested on leading devices from multiple companies, including HTC, Motorola, and ARCHOS. Many new examples have been added, including complete new applications. This new edition also adds Nine new chapters covering web APIs, the Android NDK, extending application reach, managing users, data synchronization, backups, advanced user input, and more Greatly expanded coverage of Android manifest files, content providers, app design, and testing New coverage of hot topics like Bluetooth, gestures, voice recognition, App Widgets, live folders, live wallpapers, and global search Updated 3D graphics programming coverage reflecting OpenGL ES 2.0 An all-new chapter on tackling cross-device compatibility issues, from designing for the smallest phones to the big new tablets hitting the market Even more tips and tricks to help you design, develop, and test applications for different devices A new appendix full of Eclipse tips and tricks This book is an indispensable resource for every member of the Android development software developers with all levels of mobile experience, team leaders and project managers, testers and QA specialists, software architects, and even marketers. Programming/Java
Shane Conder has extensive development experience and has focused his attention on
mobile and embedded development for the past decade. He has designed and developed
many commercial applications for BREW, J2ME, Palm,Windows Mobile, and Android.
Shane has written extensively about the mobile industry and evaluated mobile development
platforms on his tech blogs and is well known within the blogosphere. Shane
received a B.S. degree in computer science from the University of California.
A self-admitted gadget freak, Shane always has the latest phone or laptop. He can
often be found fiddling with the latest new technologies, such as Amazon Web Services,
Android, iPhone, Google App Engine, and other shiny, new technologies that activate the
creative part of his brain. He also enjoys traveling the world with his geeky wife, even if
she did make him dive with 4-meter-long great white sharks, and he almost got eaten by
a lion in Kenya. He admits that it was his fault they got attacked by monkeys in Japan
and that perhaps he should have written his own bio. (Author’s note:Wait, what?!)
Lauren Darcey is responsible for the technical leadership and direction of a small software
company specializing in mobile technologies–Android being the most exciting
and promising for the future.With almost two decades of experience in professional software
production, Lauren is a recognized authority in enterprise architecture and the
development of commercial-grade mobile applications. Lauren received a B.S. degree in
computer science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Lauren spends her copious free time traveling the world with her geeky mobileminded
husband and is an avid nature photographer. Her work has been published in
books and newspapers around the world. In South Africa, she dove with 4-meter-long
great white sharks and got stuck between a herd of rampaging hippopotami and an irritated
bull elephant. She’s been attacked by monkeys in Japan, gotten stuck in a ravine
with two hungry lions in Kenya, gotten thirsty in Egypt, narrowly avoided a coup d’état
in Thailand, and walked part of the Great Wall of China, where she took the photograph
that graces the cover of this book.
