Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, 3rd Edition

Book Description

Android continues to be one of the leading mobile OS and development platforms driving today’s 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, 3rd 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.  It’s updated to include the KitKat Android 4.4 SDK as well as earlier releases.

Instead of abstract descriptions of complex concepts, in Android Recipes, you’ll find live code examples. When you start a new project you can consider copying and pasting the code and configuration files from this book and then modifying them for your own customization needs.

Crammed with insightful instruction and helpful examples, this third edition of Android Recipes is your guide to writing apps for one of today’s hottest mobile platforms. It offers pragmatic advice that will help you get the job done quickly and well.  This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch!

What you’ll learn

• Use external libraries to save time and effort
• Boost app performance by using the Android NDK and Renderscript
• Design apps for performance, responsiveness, and seamlessness
• Send data between devices and other external hardware
• Persist application data and share it between applications
• Capture and play back various device media items
• Communicate with web services
• Get the most out of your user interface
• Develop a unit conversion app in the context of the command-line/Android SDK and Eclipse/Android SDK environments

Who this book is for

This book is a handy reference for all Android app developers.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Android
Chapter 2: Views, Graphics, and Drawing
Chapter 3: User Interaction Recipes
Chapter 4: Communications and Networking
Chapter 5: Interacting with Device Hardware and Media
Chapter 6: Persisting Data
Chapter 7: Interacting with the System
Chapter 8: Working with Android NDK and RenderScript

中文：

书名：Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, 3rd Edition

安卓仍然是推动当今移动创新和应用生态系统的领先移动操作系统和开发平台之一。Android看起来很复杂，但为那些拥有不同编程语言技能的人提供了各种有组织的开发工具包。

Android处方：问题解决方法，第三版 提供了100多个实际的代码食谱，并使用完整和真实的工作代码示例指导您逐步完成一系列有用的主题。它已更新，包括KitKat Android 4.4 SDK以及更早的版本。

不是对复杂概念的抽象描述，而是 Android Recipes，您将找到实时代码示例。当您开始一个新项目时，您可以考虑复制并粘贴本书中的代码和配置文件，然后根据您自己的定制需求对其进行修改。

充斥着富有洞察力的指导和有用的例子，这是第三版 Android Recipes 是为当今最热门的移动平台之一编写应用程序的指南。它提供了实用的建议，可以帮助你快速、很好地完成工作。这可以节省你从头开始创建项目的大量工作！

What you’ll learn

• Use external libraries to save time and effort
• 使用Android NDK和Render脚本提升应用程序性能
• 为性能、响应速度和无缝程度设计应用程序
• 在设备和其他外部硬件之间发送数据
• 持久化应用程序数据并在应用程序之间共享
• Capture and play back various device media items
• Communicate with web services
• Get the most out of your user interface
• 在命令行/Android SDK和Eclipse/Android SDK环境中开发单位转换应用程序

Who this book is for

这本书是所有Android应用程序开发人员的便捷参考。

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Android
Chapter 2: Views, Graphics, and Drawing
Chapter 3: User Interaction Recipes
Chapter 4: Communications and Networking
第5章：与设备硬件和媒体交互
Chapter 6: Persisting Data
Chapter 7: Interacting with the System
第8章：使用Android NDK和RenderScript