Unlocking Android: A Developer's Guide - Softcover

Ableson, W Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933988673 ISBN 13: 9781933988672

Publisher: Manning Publications, 2009

Synopsis

HIGHLIGHT

Unlocking Android

is a developer-focused tutorial for the Android mobile operating

system. Loaded with practical examples, this easy-to-follow book presents

practical techniques that reach far beyond the Android documentation.

DESCRIPTION

Android is a free, open source, Java-based mobile platform developed by Google.

Unlocking Android prepares the reader to embrace the Android mobile platform

in easy-to-understand language and builds on this foundation with

reusable Java code examples. It’s ideal for corporate developers and hobbyists

who have an interest, or a mandate, to deliver mobile software.

The book first covers the big picture so the reader can get comfortable with the

Android approach to the mobile applications. Then the reader learns to apply

Android by following the many practical examples. The book concludes with

two deep and hands-on examples.

Unlocking Android addresses the Android application framework, its graphical

capabilities and media support, data storage, communications capabilities,

phone interactions, and notifications.

KEY POINTS

• Android is led by Google, based on Linux, and developed by the Open

Handset Alliance.

• Learn key techniques that apply both to corporate and hobbyist developers

• The writing is crisp, clear, and fun to read.

MARKET INFORMATION

Mobile development is hot. Unlike vendor-specific proprietary platforms,

Android can be readily customized by device manufacturers and software companies

looking to provide specific features. Any developer/independent software

vendor (ISV) with a product on one of the major platforms available today

(Palm, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian, J2ME) will consider porting

their code to Android and will benefit from this book.

About this title

About the Author

W. Frank Ableson

is active in the mobile software marketplace, working with

leading mobile companies including Handango, Airtime Management, and

UnwiredTools.

Charlie Collins is a JEE developer with over 10 years of experience. Charlie is currently a contributor to the Android-Maven project, the GWT-Maven project, the

Gwittir GWT framework, and the FeedPod text-to-speech podcasting system.

Robi Sen is a Managing Partner at Twin Technologies LLC, where he spends most

of his time helping deliver next-generation Rich Internet Applications to Twin

Technologies customers.

Robert Cooper is the creator of several open source projects, including the

FeedPod text-to-speech podcasting system, the GWT-Maven plugins for supporting

Maven based builds for the Google Web Toolkit, and the Gwittir GWT framework.

He is also a contributor to other open source projects such as the ROME

RSS/Atom API for Podcasting and MediaRSS.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933988673
• ISBN 13: 9781933988672
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392