Product Description

Android is a new software toolkit for mobile phones, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. In a few years, it's expected to be found inside millions of cell phones and other mobile devices, making Android a major platform for application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices.

Getting started developing with Android is easy. You don't even need access to an Android phone, just a computer where you can install the Android SDK and the phone emulator that comes with it. Within minutes, "Hello, Android" will get you creating your first working application: Android's version of "Hello, World."

From there, you'll build up a more substantial example: an Android Sudoku game. By gradually adding features to the game throughout the course of the book, you'll learn about many aspects of Android programming including user interfaces, multimedia, and the Android life cycle.

If you're a busy developer who'd rather be coding than reading about coding, this book is for you. To help you find what you need to know fast, each chapter ends with "Fast forward" section. These sections provide guidance for where you should go next when you need to read the book out of order.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #345528 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 228 pages

About the Author
Ed Burnette is a software industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience as a programmer, author, and speaker. His development credits include everything from commercial video games to high-performance grid computing systems. Ed is a founding member and senior researcher at the SAS Advanced Computing Lab.

Ed has authored numerous technical articles and books, including Google Web Toolkit: Taking the Pain out of Ajax and Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide. He writes the Dev Connection blog for ZDNet, and is the creator of Planet Android (http://www.planetandroid.com).

In his copious spare time, you can often find him playing video games with his two sons at their home in central North Carolina.

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for those with experience
'Hello, Android' provides an excellent introduction to the Android platform for developers. Well written and easily understood, it quickly allows you to start developing your own applications. This is by no means a complete guide to developing for Android, but it gives you enough to start.

One word of warning though, this book is not for beginners. It assumes familiarity with java and some with xml. If you intend to start developing for Android without this then I would recommend familiarising yourself with java first. Xml is simple enough to pick up as you go along, but this book is not intended for a complete novice.

Great start to the Android environment
I started to read about Android and wanted to really structured introduction to developing for the environment. 'Hello, Android' provided a strong flow of learning and at a pace that lets the user see results. The first part of the book that develops a Sudoku is productive and lets you try out different ideas. An individual new to Android environment will be able to make good use of the book.