Varun Nagpal has been developing mobile apps since 2005 and has developed and contributed to more than 100 professional apps and games on various platforms, such as Android, iOS, Blackberry, and J2ME. Android app development has been his main area of expertise, and he has developed apps for a wide variety of Android devices, such as Android phones, tablets, watches, smart TVs, Android Auto, and Google Glass.
He moved to Chicago in late 2013, and since then, he has become a seasoned mobile architect. He has worked in different roles (mobile architect, technical lead, senior developer, and technical consultant) for a variety of various global clients (Allstate, Verizon, AT&T, Sydbank Denmark, SiS Taiwan, Chams PLC Nigeria, and Nandos South Africa) in order to implement their mobile solutions. He has SCJP (Core Java) and SCWD (JSP and Servlets) certifications from Sun Microsystems and MCP (C#) and MCTS (ASP.NET) certifications from Microsoft. You can find his blogs on mobile technology and white papers written by him on his website at http://www.varunnagpal.com/.
When he's not working, Varun can be found meditating or playing the flute. He also loves to develop meditation apps and fun games in his free time. He has developed about 40 meditation apps and games available on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Creative.Software.Studio) and the Apple App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/creative-software-studio/id574745824) under the name of Creative Software Studio, his part-time start-up company (http://creativesoftwarestudio.com/).
I would like to thank my wife, Ankita, for supporting me at every step, and I want to apologize to my one-year-old daughter for not giving her enough time while writing this book. I would also like to acknowledge my parents for their encouragement. Finally, I want to thank the editor, each member of the Packt Publishing team, and the technical reviewers for the effort and enthusiasm they showed while working on this book.