Preface

Welcome to the dynamic world of Android smartphone and tablet app development with the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) 2.3.x and 3.x, the Java™ programming language and the Eclipse™ integrated development environment (IDE).

This book presents leading-edge mobile computing technologies for professional software developers. At the heart of the book is our app-driven approach. We present concepts in the context of 17 complete working Android apps—16 developed in the native Android environment and one developed in HTML5 for the portable world of the web—rather than using code snippets. Chapters 3–19 each present one app. We begin each of these chapters with an introduction to the app, an app test-drive showing one or more sample executions ...

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