Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach

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:

• SpotOn Game
• Slideshow
• Flag Quiz
• Route Tracker
• Favorite Twitter® Searches
• Address Book
• Tip Calculator
• Doodlz
• Weather Viewer
• Cannon Game
• Voice Recorder
• Pizza Ordering

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…

Book Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (October 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132121360
• ISBN-13: 978-0132121361