Professional Android 2 Application Development
February 22nd, 2010
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Build unique mobile applications with the latest Android SDK Written by an Android authority, this up-to-date resource shows you how to leverage the features of Android 2 to enhance existing products or create innovative new ones. Serving as a hands-on guide to building mobile apps using Android, the book walks you through a series of sample projects that introduces you to Android’s new features and techniques. Using the explanations and examples included in these pages, you’ll acquire the foundation needed to write compelling mobile applications that use Android, along with the flexibility to quickly adapt to future enhancements. Professional Android 2 Application Development: Reviews Android as a development platform and?best practices for mobile development Provides an in-depth look at the Android application components Details creating layouts and Views to produce compelling resolution independent user interfaces E… More >>
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The material is outdated, the software it refers to you can’t get. the MFR says there is no written updates to use the book with current software. They didn’t care if you could use the book or not, their just glad you bought it.
Dennis
Rating: 2 / 5
El libro en cuestión es un buen punto de partida para desarrolladores que cuentan con cierta experiencia relativa a bases de datos y programacion orientada a objetos.
Si quieres crear aplicaciones para android sin saber POO, Java o BBDD este libro se salta esos peldaños y es posible que sin ciertos conocimientos previos te cueste un poco mas que al resto desarrollar aplicaciones complejas.
Por lo demas, el libro esta a mi juicio muy bien estructurado. Su contenido es interesante y bastante completo aunque deja cosas en el tintero o las cubre muy por encima. Asi mismo algunos ejemplos son excesivamente superficiales u orientados a un caso de uso concreto y muy frecuentemente vamos a tener que pelearnos horas con el javadoc del API o buscando por ahi como hacer una cosa que es en realidad muy insignificante y una vez hayamos logrado cubrirla, maldeciremos por lo sencillo que era y lo poco que costaba incluir un parrafo en el libro explicandolo. No es culpa del autor, el API es extensa y ademas, esta edicion del libro cubre la version 1.1.
Pese a todo, los cambios de la version 1.1 a la 1.5 (en breve 2.0 dicen) no son tan significativos.
Por todo esto, considero que es un gran punto de partida pero no te va a solucionar todos tus problemas, algunas cosas no estan del todo bien explicadas o dejan lugar a dudas. Tendras que buscar en foros, preguntar y consultar el API repetidas veces pero con un poco de dedicacion, cuando cojas el punto y la vision global de Android, el libro solo lo tendras para consultillas muy puntuales.
Personalmente, creo que sirve para iniciar una toma de contacto y como futura referencia rapida e impresa. Es muy util cuando tienes que consultar algo basico pero para cosas mas enrevesads, conviene casi mas mirar el codigo de las aplicaciones de ejemplo que vienen en el JDK de Android.
Eso si, una vez cuasi leido, practicado y asimilado el contenido del libro, ya estas en condiciones de programar para Android a un nivel muy decente.
Como con todo, si dispones de los recursos suficientes: Este libro + JDK de Android (Javadoc, emulador, ejemplos y extensiones de eclipse) + internet (foros y blogs de desarrolladores) + (tiempo, ganas e ilusion) = sin problemas.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this book as my first foray into Android development, based on the reviews here so far. Now, though, I know that I probably should’ve actually read the reviews, as they may be a bit more thorough than their simple star-based ratings convey.
The book touts itself as, being for “anyone interested in creating applications for the Android mobile phone platform. It includes information that will be valuable whether you’re an experienced mobile developer or making your first foray, via Android, into writing mobile applications.”
From the “making your first foray, via Android, into writing mobile applications” part, I’d assume it meant newbies. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. The book is inconsistent with the way topics are handled, and it feels almost entirely non-linear within any given chapter.
There are many different issues with the book, among those:
* This book targets Android somewhere back around the 1.0 release. As we’re now on the 2.0 release of Android (and moving on to 2.1), this book is quite a bit obsolete. Most of the coding is still functional of course, but if you’re new to development in general, you’re most likely not gonna be able to figure out how to retool the code.
* Though he walks you through sample applications to familiarize you with the concepts he teaches, he seems to lose interest fast and goes on seemingly random tangents throughout the book. Case in point: Chapter three had you making a revision to the layout of a ToDo List app you were designing. After making a minor change to the code, he starts you off on a Compass app.
All that being said, if you’re completely new to Android development, I would suggest you avoid this book as your first option. Instead, you should go with something a bit more simple like “Hello, Android”. And while you’re at it, you’ll probably want to pick up a book on Java development, since both Android books assume some level of knowledge in Java development. The one I purchased to go along with “Hello, Android” is “Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours”. I’ve finished the first of the two, and it’s quite a bit easier to follow than PAAD. What’s more, it’s linear, and he doesn’t stray from the current lessons to go on some sort of tangent about how robust Android is like Mr. Meier does.
I didn’t even finish this book.
I can’t.
And I probably never will.
Not with so many other fine choices available.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this on the strength of the other Amazon reviews, but was disappointed. I have years of programming and application design experience, some in Java, but none with mobile applications or Android. At the beginning of the book is a section on “who this book is for” and it says you don’t have to know Java, mobile development or Android to get through the book. This is false. While there is a lot of information in here, it is presented piecemeal and in a disorganized fashion, leaving one to hunt all over Google’s Android website to complete the partial explanations one finds in the book. In addition, take note that it was written for Android 1.0;the most current Android version is 2.0 and is somewhat different. Having used other Wrox books and having found most of them very logically organized, with clear explanations of the code, I was surprised by this one. I’d suggest the author include more complete descriptions of the code and the terms used, how to set oneself up in the IDE, and some appendices containing information about the most used classes. The book has useful information, but it is not for those new to Android.
Rating: 3 / 5
It seems very good.
The content match what i expected.
It is written good.
Rating: 4 / 5