Practical Android Projects

Take a practical approach to becoming a leading-edge Android developer, learning by example while combining the many technologies needed to create a successful, up-to-date web app.

 

Practical Android Projects introduces the Android software development kit and development tools of the trade, and then dives into building cool-looking and fun apps that put Android's amazing capabilities to work. Android is the powerful, full-featured, open source mobile platform that powers phones like Google Nexus, Motorola Droid, Samsung Galaxy S, and a variety of HTC phones and tablet computers.

This book helps you quickly get Android projects up and running with the free and open source Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA IDEs. Then you build and extend mobile applications using the Android SDK, Java, Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A), and languages such as Python, Ruby, Javascript/HTML, Flex/AIR, and Lua.

Lucas L. Jordan is a lifelong computer enthusiast and has worked for many years as a Java developer, focusing on UI. He has previously written JavaFX Special Effects: Taking Java™ RIA to the Extreme with Animation, Multimedia, and Game Elements. Lucas is interested in mobile application development in its many forms.

Pieter H. C. Greyling admits to falling for the joys of coding on Turing complete Texas Instruments and Casio programmable calculators. This was duly followed by the Zen of desk checking pencil-coded COBOL programs, mainframe hex dumps on many a midnight, over two decades of corporate IT, the birth of the Internet, and grappling with myriad platforms and programming languages. He has great enthusiasm for the potential of little devices, the web, and free and open source computing.