Gain the essential Java language skills necessary for using the Android
SDK platform to build Java-based Android apps. This book includes the
latest Java SE releases that Android supports, and is geared towards the
Android SDK version 10. It includes new content including JSON
documents, functional programming, and lambdas as well as other language
features important for migrating Java skills to Android development.
Android is still the world's most popular mobile platform and because
this technology is still mostly based on Java, you should first obtain a
solid grasp of the Java language and its APIs in order to improve your
chances of succeeding as an effective Android apps developer. *Learn
Java for Android Development, 4th Edition * helps you do that.
Each of the book's chapters provides an exercise section that gives you
the opportunity to reinforce your understanding of the chapter's
material. Answers to the book's more than 500 exercises are provided in
an appendix. Once you finish, you will be ready to begin your Android
app development journey using Java.
What You Will Learn
- Discover the latest Java programming language features relevant to
Android SDK development
- Apply inheritance, polymorphism, and interfaces to Android development
- Use Java collections, concurrency, I/O, networks, persistence,
functional programming, and data access in Android apps
- Parse, create, and transform XML and JSON documents
- Migrate your Java skills for mobile development using the Android
platform
Who This Book Is For
Programmers with at least some prior Java programming experience looking
to get into mobile Java development with the Android platform.
