Android continues to be one of the leading mobile OS and development platforms driving todays mobile innovations and the apps ecosystem. Android appears complex, but offers a variety of organized development kits to those coming into Android with differing programming language skill sets.
Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition offers more than 100 down-to-earth code recipes, and guides you step-by-step through a wide range of useful topics using complete and real-world working code examples. Its updated to include the Jelly Bean Android SDK as well as earlier releases.
Instead of abstract descriptions of complex concepts, in Android Recipes, youll find live code examples. When you start a new project, you can consider copying and pasting the code and configuration files from this book, then modifying them for your own customization needs.
What youโll learn :
โข Use external libraries to save time and effort
โข Boost app performance by using the Android NDK and Renderscript
โข Design apps for performance, responsiveness, and seamlessness
โข Send data between devices and other external hardware
โข Persist application data and share it between applications
โข Capture and play back various device media items
โข Communicate with web services
โข Get the most out of your user interface
โข Develop a unit conversion app in the context of the command-line/Android SDK and Eclipse/Android SDK environments