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Mar 10

Book: Sams Teach Yourself Android App Development in 24 Hours

Authors Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder, authors of Android Wireless Application Development 0321627091, Addison-Wesley Professional, offer software developers step-by-step instruction on how to create and distribute their first marketable, professional Android applications. Each chapter contains Quizzes, Q&A and Exercises to help readers assess their skills. This book is the first step to getting started as a professional Android application developer.

  • By: Lauren Darcey; Shane Conder

  • Publisher: Sams

  • Last Updated: 28-JAN-2010

  • Pub. Date: June 15, 2010 (Estimated)

  • Print ISBN-10: 0-321-67335-2

  • Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-67335-0

  • Pages in Print Edition: 528

via Safari Books Online: Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours.

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20
Feb 10

Book: Professional Android 2 Application Development, 2nd Edition

Author : Reto Meier

ISBN: 978-0-470-56552-0

Paperback

576 pages

March 2010

Build unique mobile applications with the latest Android SDK

Written by an Android authority, this up-to-date resource shows you how to leverage the features of Android 2 to enhance existing products or create innovative new ones. Serving as a hands-on guide to building mobile apps using Android, the book walks you through a series of sample projects that introduces you to Android’s new features and techniques. Using the explanations and examples included in these pages, you’ll acquire the foundation needed to write compelling mobile applications that use Android, along with the flexibility to quickly adapt to future enhancements.

Professional Android 2 Application Development:

  • Reviews Android as a development platform and¿best practices for mobile development
  • Provides an in-depth look at the Android application components
  • Details creating layouts and Views to produce compelling resolution independent user interfaces
  • Examines Intents and Content Providers for sharing data
  • Introduces techniques for creating map-based applications and using location-based services such as GPS
  • Looks at how to create and use background Services, Notifications, and Alarms
  • Demonstrates how to create interactive homescreen components
  • Explores the Bluetooth, telephony, and networking APIs
  • Examines using hardware, including the camera and sensors such as the compass and accelerometers

via Wiley::Professional Android 2 Application Development, 2nd Edition.

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10
Feb 10

Five of the best Android development books via EURODROID

It seems odd that people would turn to musty old BOOKS to educate themselves about the hows and whys of Android app development, but it seems that, sometimes, learning is best done slowly, at your own pace, in bed, when not distracted by the internet.

via Five of the best Android development books » EURODROID – Google Android phone news.

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9
Feb 10

Book: Android Application Development – O’Reilly

Android Application Development

Programming with the Google SDK

This practical book provides the concepts and code you need to develop software with Android, the open-source platform for cell phones and mobile devices that’s generating enthusiasm across the industry. Android Application Development introduces this programming environment, and offers you a complete working example that demonstrates Android architectural features and APIs. The book is a natural complement to the existing Android documentation provided by Google.

By: Rick Rogers, John Lombardo, Zigurd Mednieks, Blake Meike
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release: May 2009
Ebook Release: May 2009
Pages: 336
Print ISBN: 978-0-596-52147-9 | ISBN 10: 0-596-52147-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-596-80254-7 | ISBN 10: 0-596-80254-4
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8
Feb 10

Book : Android Programming Tutorials

The Android and Advanced Android books show you what you can do with Android — Android Programming Tutorials show you what you can do with Android, through a series of 42 individual exercises. Android Programming Tutorials gives you hands-on instruction in how to build sophisticated Android applications, using many of the technologies outlined in CommonsWare's other Android books.

408 pages

Supports Android 2.1

ISBN: 978-0-9816780-2-3

via Android Programming Tutorials.

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8
Feb 10

Book: The Busy Coder’s Guide to Advanced Android Development

This book picks up where its predecessor left off, covering yet more topics of interest to the professional Android application developer. If you need to use sensors, create home screen widgets, play back media, take pictures with the camera, or implement sophisticated services, this book will be a helpful guide.

326 pages

Supports the 2.0.1 SDK

ISBN: 978-0-9816780-1-6

via Advanced Android Development.

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2
Feb 10

Book : Hello, Android

Android combines the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members. The result is a mobile platform you can’t afford not to learn. This second edition is completely updated for Android 1.5 (Cupcake) and Android 1.6 (Donut).

272 pages, Nov 2009
ISBN: 978-1-93435-649-4

via The Pragmatic Bookshelf

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Feb 10

Book : Android Essentials

Android Essentials is a no–frills, no–nonsense, code–centric run through the guts of application development on Google’s Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work.

  • By Chris Haseman
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4302-1064-1
  • ISBN10: 1-4302-1064-8
  • 100 pp.

via APRESS.COM : Android Essentials : 9781430210641

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Feb 10

Book: The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development

This book covers what you need to know to get started programming Android applications for mobile devices — everything from crafting GUIs to using GPS and accessing Web services, and more!

Details
  • 533 pages
  • Supports the 2.1 SDK
  • Over 60 sample applications
  • ISBN: 978-0-9816780-0-9

via Android Development.

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31
Jan 10

Developer Handbook: Pro Android Games

Pro Android Games teaches you how to build cool games like Space Blaster and the classic Asteroids from scratch on the latest Android platform. This book also shows you how to port other classic freeware/shareware games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D from C using the Java Native Interface (JNI) for Android.

via Pro Android Games | Robotworld.