Pro Android 5, Fifth Edition

Introduction

Welcome to the wonderful world of Android. A world where, with a bit of knowledge and effort, you too can write Android applications. To write good applications, however, you will need to dig deeper, to understand the fundamentals of the Android architecture, to understand how applications can work together, to understand how mobile applications are different from all previous forms of programming. The online documentation on Android is fair, but it does not go far enough. You can read the source code, but that's not at all easy.

This book is the culmination of seven years of researching, developing, testing, refining, and writing about Android. We've read all the online documentation, scoured through source code, explored the far ...