Programming Android: Java Programming for the New Generation of Mobile Devices

Mednieks, Zigurd; Meike, G. Blake; Nakamura, Masumi; Dornin, Laird; Barnert, William

ISBN 10: 1449340709 ISBN 13: 9781449340704

Verlag: O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA, 2014

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Get up to speed on Android programming, and learn how to create up-to-date user experiences for both smartphones and tablets. With this book’s extensively revised third edition, you’ll focus on Android tools and programming essentials, including best practices for using Android APIs. If you’re experienced with Java or Objective-C, you’ll gain the knowledge necessary for building well-engineered applications.

Topics include:

• The Android app life cycle and how to maximize efficiency
• Good Java programming practices for Android
• Graphics from basic views to 3D
• Using Fragments
• Intents and remote procedure calls
• Handling persistent data and content providers
• Integrating an app with RESTful web services
• Signing and distributing an application
• Location and mapping
• Search, speech, sensors, NFC, Sync, and other advanced topics
• Signing and distributing an application
• The Native Development Kit

This updated edition of Programming Android focuses on the knowledge and developer priorities that are essential for successful Android development projects.

Biografía del autor:

Zigurd Mednieks is a consultant to leading OEMs, enterprises, and entrepreneurial ventures creating Android-based systems and software. Previously he was Chief Architect at D2 Technologies, a voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology provider. There he lead engineering and product definition work for products that blended communication and social media in purpose-built embedded systems and on the Android platform.

Blake Meike, Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon, has more than 10 years of experience with Java. He’s developed applications using most of the GUI toolkits and several of the Java mobile device platforms.

With over a decade of software engineering experience, Masumi Nakamura has worked in various positions within the mobile technology arena, from building out mobile infrastructure to founding his own mobile company. He was one of the primary Android developers of the Where Android app and now is Principal Architect for the Big Data and Recommendations Group at Where, Inc. Outside of coding, he spends his time practicing Ba Gua Zhang and caring for his two cats.

Laird Dornin is a mobile development architect with extensive experience in Java, Android, J2ME, SavaJe, and the webkit browser library. He was a member of the J2SE development team at Sun Microsystems specializing in java.rmi and Jini technology. Laird is currently a Senior Engineer at a major wireless carrier, where he provides Android architectural guidance and Network API support to members of the carrier's developer community.

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• Verlag: O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1449340709
• ISBN 13: 9781449340704
• Einband: Rústica
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 550