Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform

Google Android dominates the cellular marketplace, and through concentrating on Android, your apps can run on lots of the telephones and capsules on this planet. This new fourth version of the number 1 booklet for studying Android covers all smooth Android models from Android 4.1 via Android 5.0. Freshly additional fabric covers new Android positive factors resembling Fragments and Google Play companies. Android is a platform you cannot have enough money to not study, and this ebook will get you started.

Android is a software program toolkit for cellphones and pills, created by means of Google. it really is inside of greater than one thousand million units, making Android the number 1 platform for program builders. your personal app can be operating on all these devices!

Getting began constructing with Android is straightforward. you do not even want entry to an Android telephone, only a computing device the place you could set up the Android SDK and the emulator that incorporates it. inside mins, hi, Android will get you developing your first operating software: Android's model of "Hello, World." From there, you are going to building up a extra large instance: an final Tic-Tac-Toe video game. via progressively including gains to the sport, you are going to know about many features of Android programming, similar to developing lively person interfaces, taking part in track and sound results, construction location-based providers (including GPS and cell-tower triangulation), and getting access to internet companies. you will additionally how you can put up your purposes to the Google Play Store.

This fourth version of the bestselling Android vintage has been revised for Android 4.1-4.3 (Jelly Bean), 4.4 (KitKat), and Android 5.0 (Lollipop). issues were streamlined and simplified in accordance with reader suggestions, and each web page and instance has been reviewed and up to date for compatibility with the newest models of Android.

If you would otherwise be coding than examining approximately coding, this publication is for you.

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