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Android Studio Cookbook

By : Mike van Drongelen
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Android Studio Cookbook

By: Mike van Drongelen

Overview of this book

This book starts with an introduction of Android Studio and why you should use this IDE rather than Eclipse. Moving ahead, it teaches you to build a simple app that requires no backend setup but uses Google Cloud or Parse instead. After that, you will learn how to create an Android app that can send and receive text and images using Google Cloud or Parse as a backend. It explains the concepts of Material design and how to apply them to an Android app. Also, it shows you how to build an app that runs on an Android wear device. Later, it explains how to build an app that takes advantage of the latest Android SDK while still supporting older Android versions. It also demonstrates how the performance of an app can be improved and how memory management tools that come with the Android Studio IDE can help you achieve this. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop high quality apps with a minimum amount of effort using the Android Studio IDE.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Android Studio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Aliaksandr Zhukovich is a software enthusiast with a passion for technology and has more than four years of experience in professional software development. He has developed and designed software solutions for different areas. He graduated from College Business and Law and Baranovichi State University as a software developer.

He has already worked for multinational companies, such as Ericpol, as as Software developer and has worked with Java, C++, TTCN, and Android technologies. Currently, he works for TomTom as a mobile software engineer and works for a cross-platform Navigation Engine.

Ankit Garg works as a mobile engineer at AOL. He works in the Product Research and Development team and has about five years of experience in developing mobile applications. He is really passionate about making user-friendly mobile apps.

Nico Küchler lives in Berlin, Germany. He did an apprenticeship as a mathematical-technical software developer. He has worked for the gambling industry and as an online shop provider.

Since he last few years, he is working at Deutsche Post E-POST Development GmbH within the scope of Android app development.

He has also reviewed Testing and Securing Android Studio Applications for packt.

He is maintaining a project which provide a fast start with test driven Android app development https://github.com/nenick/android-gradle-template.