Android for programmers : an App-driven approach (2nd edition)

The professional programmer's Deitel(R) guide to smartphone and tablet app development using Android 4.3 and 4.4, the Eclipse-based Android Development Tools and the new Android Studio Billions of apps have been downloaded from Google Play(TM)!

This book gives you everything you'll need to start developing great Android apps quickly and getting them published on Google Play(TM).

The book uses an app-driven approach-each new technology is discussed in the context of seven fully tested Android apps, complete with syntax coloring, code highlighting, code walkthroughs and sample outputs.

Apps you'll develop include: * Welcome App* Cannon Game * Tip Calculator* Doodlz* Twitter(R) Searches* Address Book* Flag Quiz The first-generation Android phones were released in October 2008.

By October 2013, a Strategy Analytics report showed that Android had 81.3% of the global smartphone market share, compared to 13.4% for Apple, 4.1% for Microsoft and 1% for Blackberry (bit.ly/1aqIZXf).

Billions of apps have been downloaded from Google Play.

There are now more than one billion activated Android devices worldwide and more than 1.5 million Android devices are being activated daily (venturebeat.com/2013/09/03/android-hits-1bactivations-and-will-be-called-kitkat-in-nextversion). The opportunities for Android app developers are enormous.

This book presents leading-edge computing technologies for professional software developers.

At the heart of the book is the Deitel "app-driven approach"-concepts are presented in the context of complete working Android apps, rather than using code snippets.

The introduction and app test drives at the beginning of each chapter show one or more sample executions.

The book's source code is available at