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Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform (2009)

by Ed Burnette(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1934356174 (ISBN13: 9781934356173)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Pragmatic Bookshelf

review 1: This book has some valuable information in the grayed notes sections.The first 2 or 3 chapters are also pretty good at describing the initial development set up within eclipse.The issues that I had with the book included : (1) there appears to have been a Google mill for authors where they all cover the same topics, n the same manner, and devote themselves solely to highlighting the Google API functions such as location. (2) There is a code error in chapter 2, which for me required going to the Google development site and looking at code examples in order to figure out how to make the code work. This same module is used in the next 3 or 4 chapters, so it is worthwhile fixing in order to work with the code samples. The error itself may represent a change in the way the API ... morecall was made, so it may not be the author's fault for failure at a later time than the book publication. However, after having made a fix, it is not clear exactly why the fix worked vs. what the initial reason for failure was.(3) As the book progresses, the author simply throws out suggestions for things to try and suggests looking in the Google Android documentation to figure out haw to make changes or write new initial code. I thought some of the suggested changes would have been worthwhile as pursuits, but in the manner presented, the book became simply a suggestion launch site, and not a 'how to based tutorial'.(4) the book is pretty severely out of date now, and due to the pace of Android change, it was probably out of date or incomplete upon publication.
review 2: Good basic overview of the Google SDK for developing Android applications on a smart phone. Really helped get started, with practical examples. Some samples were almost too superficial in their illustration of the code -- but, mostly he gives enough to get you going (and, you can't include every sample of the book would be 10,000 pages long).Tracks the latest versions, was up to date and a good authority. An all around good place to start with Android. less

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