Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, 2nd 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, 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.  It’s updated to include the Jelly Bean Android 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, then modifying them for your own customization needs.

Crammed with insightful instruction and helpful examples, this second 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.  Newcomers may also find this of interest, too.

  Table of Contents

  1. Getting Started with Android
  2. User Interface Recipes
  3. Communications and Networking
  4. Interacting with Device Hardware and Media
  5. Persisting Data
  6. Interacting with the System
  7. Working with Libraries
  8. Working with Android NDK and Renderscript
  9. Appendix A: Scripting Layer for Android
  10. Appendix B: Android Tools Overview
  11. Appendix C: App Design Guidelines
  12. Appendix D: Univerter Architecture

中文：

书名：Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, 2nd 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，第二版 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Jelly Bean Android SDK以及更早的版本。

在Android Recipe中，你可以找到活生生的代码示例，而不是对复杂概念的抽象描述。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。

这本第二版的Android Recipe充斥着富有洞察力的指导和有用的例子，是你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！

你会学到什么

• 我使用外部库来节省时间和精力
• 通过使用Android NDK和Render脚本提升应用程序性能
• *设计性能、响应速度和无缝程度的应用程序
•  Send data between devices and other external hardware
• 持久化应用程序数据并在应用程序之间共享
• 捕获和回放各种设备媒体项目
•  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
  

  这本书是为谁而写的

  这本书是所有Android应用程序开发人员的便捷参考。新手可能也会对此感兴趣。

  Table of Contents

  1.Android入门
  2.用户界面处方
  3.通讯和网络
  4.与设备硬件和媒体交互
  5. Persisting Data
  6.与系统交互
  7.使用图书馆
  8.使用Android NDK和RenderScript
  9.附录A：Android脚本层
  10.附录B：Android工具概述
  11.附录C：应用程序设计指南
  12.附录D：大学生建筑