Learn Android App Development [Paperback]

Learn Android App Development is?a hands-on?tutorial and useful reference. You'll quickly get up to speed and master the Android SDK and the Java that you need for your Android Apps.

The Android SDK offers powerful features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering themand the rest of the Andorid SDKfor programmers with some experience who are new to Android smartphone and tablet apps development. Many books introduce the Android SDK, but very few explain how to develop apps optimally. This book teaches both core Java language concepts and how to wisely but rapidly employ the design patterns and logic using the Android SDK, which is based on Java APIs.

You'll also learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient and perform well.

• Get an accelerated but complete enough treatment of the fundamentals of Java necessary to get you started.
• Design your first app using prototyping and other design methods.
• Build your first Android app using the code given over the course of the book.
• Finally, debug and distribute your first app on Google Play or other Android app store.

1. Building Your Android Software Development Environment
2. Exploring Android App Development: Building Your First Hello World App using the Lingo
3. A Java for Android Primer: Enhancing our Hello World Application
4. Designing User Interface Layouts via Android ViewGroup and Activity Classes
5. Using Intents and Events to make an Android Application Interactive
6. Populating a UI Design with Android Widgets via Androids View Class
7. Introduction to Graphics Design in Alãå