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!
