Preface
The Android platform continues to aggressively grow in market share against competing mobile platforms, such as Apple iOS and BlackBerry. New and exciting types of devices reach consumers’ hands at a furious pace, and the Android application development community continues to grow and prosper. Developers can no longer ignore Android as a target platform if they want to reach the smartphone (or smart-device) users of today and tomorrow.
Android’s latest major platform update, Android 4.0, frequently called by its code-name, Ice Cream Sandwich or just ICS merges the smartphone-centric Android 2.3.x (Gingerbread) and the tablet-centric Android 3.x (Honeycomb) platform editions into a single SDK for all smart-devices, be they phones, tablets, ...
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