Migrating to Android for IOS Developers

Sean Liao

ISBN 10: 148420011X / ISBN 13: 9781484200117

Published by Apress, 2014

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Migrating to Android for iOS Developers gives you as an experienced native iOS app developer the skills to learn native Android apps development from scratch. Starting with preparing your Android integrated development environment and introducing just enough Android application framework fundamentals, you ll understand how to create a simple but meaningful HelloAndroid project immediately. This book provides the guidelines and tutorial projects to show you how to translate your existing iOS app to the Android platform. You ll use your mobile app knowledge to structure your Android apps in a similar way to how you would structure your iOS apps. To implement use cases with detailed screens, the most common mobile topics are discussed, including user interfaces, managing data, and networking with remote services. As you move through the book, you ll create Android apps with rich UI components to handle common CRUD operations locally and remotely.There are many Android goodies described in the book. Instead of relying on routine text descriptions, you ll discover the uniqueness of Android and appreciate the many features that are unique to the platform. This book also explores more powerful mobile UX patterns that are commonly used on the iOS and Android platforms.When you finish reading Migrating to Android for iOS Developers, you ll be an Android developer as well as an iOS developer. And, you will be fully convinced you can do everything in Android that you can do in iOS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Migrating to Android for IOS Developers
• Publisher: Apress
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 148420011X
• ISBN 13: 9781484200117
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 191H x 28D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 191 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 982 grams

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Synopsis

Migrating to Android for iOS Developers gives you—as an experienced native iOS app developer—the skills to learn native Android apps development from scratch. Starting with preparing your Android integrated development environment and introducing just enough Android application framework fundamentals, you’ll understand how to create a simple but meaningful HelloAndroid project immediately.

This book provides the guidelines and tutorial projects to show you how to translate your existing iOS app to the Android platform. You’ll use your mobile app knowledge to structure your Android apps in a similar way to how you would structure your iOS apps. To implement use cases with detailed screens, the most common mobile topics are discussed, including user interfaces, managing data, and networking with remote services. As you move through the book, you’ll create Android apps with rich UI components to handle common CRUD operations locally and remotely.

There are many Android goodies described in the book. Instead of relying on routine text descriptions, you’ll discover the uniqueness of Android and appreciate the many features that are unique to the platform. This book also explores more powerful mobile UX patterns that are commonly used on the iOS and Android platforms.

When you finish reading Migrating to Android for iOS Developers, you’ll be an Android developer as well as an iOS developer. And, you will be fully convinced you can do everything in Android that you can do in iOS.

About the Author

Sean Liao (PMP@) has been written mobile code for PalmOS, JavaME, Microsoft .NETCF, and BlackBerry, and he also has some Nokia Symbian experience since 2000. In 2009, Sean started iOS programming, and then began Android programming the same year by following the same porting strategy, based on years of hands-on mobile programming experience. Currently, Sean is primarily engaged in creating iOS apps and porting them to Android as a bonus.