Android continues to be one of the leading mobile OS and development
platforms driving today's mobile innovations and the apps ecosystem.
Android appears complex, but offers a variety of organized development
kits to those coming into Android with differing programming language
skill sets.
Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach guides you step-by-step
through a wide range of useful topics using complete and real-world
working code examples.
In this book, you'll start off with a recap of Android architecture
and app fundamentals, and then get down to business and build an app
with Google.s Android SDK at the command line and Eclipse. Next,
you'll learn how to accomplish practical tasks pertaining to the user
interface, communications with the cloud, device hardware, data
persistence, communications between applications, and interacting with
Android itself. Finally, you'll learn how to leverage various libraries
and scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) to help you perform tasks more
quickly, how to use the Android NDK to boost app performance, and how
to design apps for performance, responsiveness, seamlessness, and more.
Instead of abstract descriptions of complex concepts, in Android
Recipes, you'll find live code examples. When you start a new project,
you can consider copying and pasting the code and configuration files
from this book, then modifying them for your own customization needs.
This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from
scratch!
What you.ll learn
Discover Android architecture and various Android-specific APIs
How to develop a unit conversion app in the context of command-line/
Android SDK and Eclipse/Android SDK environments
How to accomplish various tasks related to the user interface and more
How to use external libraries to save time and effort
How to quickly develop an app using the scripting Layer 4 Android (SL4A) tool
How to boost app performance by using the Android NDK
Guidelines for designing filtered apps, performant apps, responsive
apps, and seamless apps
Who this book is for
Newcomers to Android, as well as more accomplished Android developers.
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