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Einfuhrung In Die Android-Entwicklung (2011)

by Marko Gargenta(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

3868991999 (ISBN13: 9783868991994)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

O'Reilly Verlag

review 1: Good book to learn Android programming. Marko covers all of the basic pieces of an Android app and gives you a great point to jump off into the wide world of Android Programming. It is refreshing to have a book that walks you through a single project as it is often difficult to understand how to use a technology when a book just gives a thousand separate examples of code. The book contained many errors that caused some head banging against the wall for a few minutes here and there. His code was inconsistent probably due to not having a good book editor when he released the second edition. Hopefully in the future Marko will do a better job of not releasing with so many errors by getting some better readers to test out the book.Overall I enjoyed the book and recommend it is ... morea good starting point for Android.
review 2: It was alright, but the idea behind this book is to create this Twitter-updating and reading application, thus going through the steps of designing activities, rewriting some later as AsyncTasks, rewriting some later as services, designing layouts and understanding Android through a hands-on project.I don't really like these monolithic projects, as the book then must be read continuously, and some of the projects are quite contrived, just because the author is too married to the implementation. Couple more problems with this edition:- Twitter changed their API model, so most of the API code is deprecated or not working- Android toolkit for Eclipse got much nicer layout editors, so you don't have to fuss around with layouts as much less

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