Android in practice

Original title: Android in Practice
Translation: Tomasz Walczak
ISBN: 978-83-246-4810-8
Release date: 2012-10-29
Format: 172x245
Pages: 728

About the book

The best Android programming techniques at your fingertips!

It's not difficult to find the information you need to create the first Android app. But what's next? The deeper we immerse ourselves in the world of mobile devices, the more often we will go to traps and blind alleys. The book "Android in practice" comes to the rescue. However, you will not find any trivial information here. This book is a rich source of tips, tricks and best practices in the area of Android application development, covering over ninety ingenious and useful techniques that will make you a better programmer.

During the reading you will see how to create precise (as for the pixel) graphic elements, manage tasks performed in the background and parallel threads. In addition, you will check how to share data between applications and communicate with network services. These are just some of the topics covered in this unique book dedicated to the Android platform. Designed for both beginners and advanced users, it will help you understand how to build excellent applications that will be successful on the Android platform over the years.

Reach for this book and:

• learn the best practices of creating applications for the Android platform
• Take advantage of the potential of multi-core processors
• create two- and three-dimensional graphics
• find solutions to your problems

An obligatory position on the shelf of a mobile application programmer!

Charlie Collins is a developer of mobile and network applications at MOVL, a co-creator of several projects with open source code access, as well as a co-author of the books "GWT in Practice" and "Unlocking Android".

Michael Galpin is a programmer at Bump Technologies, where he worked on two of the most popular applications from the Android Market (Bump and eBay Mobile).

Matthias Käppler is an Android engineer and APIs at Qype.