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Author: Paul Deitel Abbey Deitel Harvey Deitel Michael Morgano
ISBN : B005OR9MS0
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The professional programmer’s Deitel® guide to Android™ smartphone and tablet app development and the Eclipse IDE with the Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in
Billions of apps have been downloaded from Android Market! This book gives you everything you’ll need to start developing great Android apps quickly and getting them published on Android Market. The book uses an app-driven approach—each new technology is discussed in the context of 16 fully tested Android apps, complete with syntax coloring, code walkthroughs and sample outputs. Apps you’ll develop include:
Practical, example-rich coverage of:
Smartphone and Tablet Apps, Android Development Tools (ADT) Plug-In for Eclipse
Activities, Intents, Content Providers
GUI Components, Menus, Toasts, Resource Files, Touch and Gesture Processing
Tablet Apps, ActionBar and AppWidgets
Tweened Animations, Property Animations
Camera, Audio, Video, Graphics, OpenGL ES
Gallery and Media Library Access
SharedPreferences, Serialization, SQLite
Handlers and Multithreading, Games
Google Maps, GPS, Location Services, Sensors
Internet-Enabled Apps, Web Services, Telephony, Bluetooth®
Speech Synthesis and Recognition
Android Market, Pricing, Monetization
And more…
Books with free ebook downloads available Free Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach
- File Size: 21832 KB
- Print Length: 512 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (October 24, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005OR9MS0
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Free Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach
I have purchased at least 3 other Deitel books in the past, including Java How To Program, the book that literally launched my career in development. Deitel have always been at the top of my list for their technical precision, brevity and clarity when explaining concepts. To translate a computer programming language to English requires equal mastery of both languages, and this team has it.
That being said, this book is very frustrating. I learn by doing. And the "App-Driven Approach" in this book means that you'll be creating actual apps that work. The apps themselves are very well selected. Each one is non-trivial, and introduces a balance of new Android concepts. This is all good. BUT...
The methods of each app are introduced and explained in LINE NUMBER SEQUENCE, completely ignoring the FLOW OF CONTROL of the app you're working on. As such, if you're diligently following along and writing code, you'll regularly be either 1) calling methods you have not yet defined or 2) writing methods and waiting 5 pages to discover where that method is actually called/used. Put another way, nearly every method you write will contain one or more errors as you write it! Eclipse will throw warnings about your references you'll be left with questions which may not be answered for many pages, which makes for a very frustrating experience. Most importantly though, you'll feel a bit as though you're learning concepts in a vacuum, without enough context to make each concept stick. If the methods were written to follow the flow of control of the program instead, you would frequently be revisiting and updating existing methods as the program matures. And this is how programmers actually program.