Preface

Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science and technology and the various forms of art, all unite humanity in a single and interconnected system.

—Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvede

Welcome to the dynamic world of Android smartphone and tablet app development with the Android Software Development Kit (SDK), the Java™ programming language, the Android Development Tools IDE, and the new and rapidly evolving Android Studio. We present leading-edge mobile computing technologies for students, instructors and professional software developers.

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