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Android Programming for Beginners

By : John Horton, Paresh Mayani
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Android Programming for Beginners

By: John Horton, Paresh Mayani

Overview of this book

Android is the most popular OS in the world. There are millions of devices accessing tens of thousands of applications. It is many people's entry point into the world of technology; it is an operating system for everyone. Despite this, the entry-fee to actually make Android applications is usually a computer science degree, or five years’ worth of Java experience. Android Programming for Beginners will be your companion to create Android applications from scratch—whether you’re looking to start your programming career, make an application for work, be reintroduced to mobile development, or are just looking to program for fun. We will introduce you to all the fundamental concepts of programming in an Android context, from the Java basics to working with the Android API. All examples are created from within Android Studio, the official Android development environment that helps supercharge your application development process. After this crash-course, we’ll dive deeper into Android programming and you’ll learn how to create applications with a professional-standard UI through fragments, make location-aware apps with Google Maps integration, and store your user’s data with SQLite. In addition, you’ll see how to make your apps multilingual, capture images from a device’s camera, and work with graphics, sound, and animations too. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to start building your own custom applications in Android and Java.
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Android Programming for Beginners
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Nayanesh Ramchandra Gupte is an enthusiastic Android professional based in Bangalore—the Silicon Valley of India. He is a full-stack engineer and has been exploring Android for more than 5 years. Until now, he has worked with different organizations and developed more than 40 Android applications. Some of these apps are featured with the Top Developer badge on Google Play. Programming, especially in Java and Android, is not just a part of his career, but his passion as well.

Besides being a software engineer, he works as an Android consultant and is associated with the Google Developers Group based in Bangalore. Writing personal blogs and articles on Java and Android remain a couple of his interests. He works as a professional Android trainer and pursues teaching and illustration as his hobbies.

Associated with one of the e-commerce giants in India, Nayanesh is a part of the core engineering team. He also works closely with the Product and UX team to build a next-generation platform for e-commerce.

You can know more about him at https://about.me/NayaneshGupte, and you can find him on LinkedIn at http://in.linkedin.com/in/nayaneshgupte/.

Márton Kodok has extensive experience as a web, mobile, and desktop software engineer. He has also been a backend programmer and team leader, where he mostly concluded projects for various U.S. companies. He is a lead developer in various scalable projects and an active contributor to scalable solutions such as Beanstalkd Console and Riak-admin interface. He is an expert in databases and search systems such as Google, BigQuery, and Elasticsearch. He is also an active member of Stack Overflow, has spoken at many conferences, and has mentored many young, talented enthusiasts. You can find him at ro.linkedin.com/in/pentium10 and http://stackoverflow.com/users/243782/pentium10.

Paresh Mayani is a software engineer who has been exploring the horizon of Android development since Cupcake (Android 1.5). He has hands-on experience of designing, building, and publishing Android Apps. His skills range from technical documentation, UX/UI design, code and performance optimization, to writing extensive testing for applications.

He's actively involved in the Android community too—writing blog posts, helping fellow Android developers by posting answers on Stack Overflow, and giving talks around the world. He is among top 0.25% with and manages more than 60,000 reputation points. He is one of the top 10 highest contributors to the Android tag on Stack Overflow.

He is the founder/organizer of the Google Developers Group, Ahmedabad, India. By looking at his experience and his contribution to the Android community, he was recently nominated for the Google Developers Expert program led by Google. You can find more about him at his blog, http://www.technotalkative.com/.