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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. Covering the entirety of the Android catalog in less than 150 pages is simply impossible. Instead, this book focuses on just four main topics: the application life cycle and OS integration, user interface, location–based services, and networking.

• Thorough, complete, and useful work on the nuts and bolts of applicatio development in Android
• Example driven and practically minded
• A tool for hobbyists and professionals who want to create production–quality applications

What you’ll learn

• Understand how an Android application functions and communicates with the handset that hosts it.
• Comprehend the complexities of timers, services, and multimedia playback.
• Create and display a rich mix of custom–rendered screens and tailored Android widgets.
• Understand how location–based services are becoming more and more important in the mobile world.
• See how to use Google’s powerful Map tool.
• Explore the intricacies of network connectivity in the mobile world.

Who is this book for

This book is for professional software engineers looking to move their ideas and applications into the mobile space with Android. The author assumes the reader has a passable understanding of Java. They should be able to write classes and handle basic inheritance structures. This book also targets hobbyist developers looking to negotiate the complex minefield of mobile software.

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Pro Android

At a high level, this book is about writing mobile applications for devices that support the Android Platform. Specifically, the book teaches you how to write applications using the Android SDK.
Who This Book Is For
This book is for software developers interested in writing mobile applications with the Android SDK. Because Android is a fairly new technology, anyone interested in building mobile applications using the Java™ platform will also benefit from this book. In addition, software architects and business-development professionals can use this book to get an understanding of the Android Platform’s capabilities.

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Beginning Android

Learn how to develop applications for Android mobile devices using simple examples, ready to run with your copy of the SDK. Author and Android columnist, writer, developer, and community advocate Mark L Murphy shows you what you need to know to get started on programming Android applications–everything from crafting GUIs to using GPS, accessing web services, and more!

The Android development platform, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, is a platform in its truest sense, encompassing hundreds of classes beyond the traditional Java classes and open source components that ship with the SDK. Some Android books race through the material, trying to cover as much ground as possible in as few pages as possible. Experienced writer and community advocate Mark Murphy shows you how to develop Android applications simply and with care.

The book includes dozens of sample projects, ready to run with your copy of the SDK–not just one huge project where you have difficulty finding the specific examples of the technique you are looking for. You can even get these sample programs online at Apress.com.

What you'll learn

• Discover what Android is and how to use Android to build Java-based mobile applications for Google Phones G1 and more phones as they hit the market
• Work with the new Android 1.x SDK
• Create user interfaces using both the Android Widget framework and the built-in WebKit-powered web browser components
• Use scripting with BeanShell
• Work with menu inflation, fonts, SDK tools, rotation events, and more
• Work with TabActivity, MyLocationOverlay, DDMS, and more
• Utilize the distinctive capabilities of the Android engine including maps, Internet access, integrated search, media playback, and more
• Use and create similar sample Android applications for services, content providers, mapping, and location-based services/events

About the Author

Mark Murphy is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development. A three-time entrepreneur, his experience ranges from consulting on open source and collaborative development for Fortune 500 companies to application development on just about anything smaller than a mainframe. He has been a software developer for over 25 years, working on platforms ranging from the TRS-80 to the latest crop of mobile devices. A polished speaker, Mark has delivered conference presentations and training sessions on a wide array of topics internationally.

Mark writes the "Building Droids" column for AndroidGuys and the "Android Angle" column for NetworkWorld.

Outside of CommonsWare, Mark has an avid interest in how the Internet will play a role in citizen involvement with politics and government. He is a contributor to the Rebooting America essay collection, and his personal blog features many posts discussing "cooperative democracy."

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