Our friends over at informIT are back with another new book on programming for Android. This time around, though, the book places more emphasis on learning directly by creating apps - in other words, learning by doing. The book is Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach, and it packs 16 fully coded Android apps as examples.
The Book
Written by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel, Abbey Deitel (quite the family affair...) and Michael Morgano, the book is 512 pages long and can be had for $29 for the eBook, $36 for a paper copy, or $49 for both.
Contains 16 Fully Coded Android™ Apps
The professional programmer’s Deitel® guide to Android™ smartphone and tablet app development and the Eclipse IDE with the Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in
Billions of apps have been downloaded from Android Market! This book gives you everything you’ll need to start developing great Android apps quickly and getting them published on Android Market. The book uses an app-driven approach—each new technology is discussed in the context of 16 fully tested Android apps, complete with syntax coloring, code walkthroughs and sample outputs. Apps you’ll develop include:
SpotOn Game
Slideshow
Flag Quiz
Route Tracker
Favorite Twitter® Searches
Address Book
Tip Calculator
Doodlz
Weather Viewer
Cannon Game
Voice Recorder
Pizza Ordering
Practical, example-rich coverage of:
Smartphone and Tablet Apps, Android Development Tools (ADT) Plug-In for Eclipse
Activities, Intents, Content Providers
GUI Components, Menus, Toasts, Resource Files, Touch and Gesture Processing
Tablet Apps, ActionBar and AppWidgets
Tweened Animations, Property Animations
Camera, Audio, Video, Graphics, OpenGL ES
Gallery and Media Library Access
SharedPreferences, Serialization, SQLite
Handlers and Multithreading, Games
Google Maps, GPS, Location Services, Sensors
Internet-Enabled Apps, Web Services, Telephony, Bluetooth®
Speech Synthesis and Recognition
Android Market, Pricing, Monetization
And more…
Think you're ready to get started? That's the spirit, wolves - read on to find out how you can win a free copy.
How To Win
This contest is now over. Here are our winners, selected at random:
- Borche Georgiev
- Bob Johnson
- Derek Garmon
- Kevin K
- d3vkit
Congratulations, guys - all of you will be contacted for your information in the near future!
Everyone else - keep participating and stay tuned to Android Police so that you don't miss our upcoming giveaway announcements. You can follow AP on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and RSS.
Once again, the contest is quite simple: leave a comment to this post (below) and be sure to include your actual email address in the "Mail" column - we need it to contact you in the event that you win. There are no rules for what kind of comment in particular, but something funny or witty would be interesting.
The contest will end Friday, October 21 at 11:59 PM PST. Winners will be chosen at random and contacted via email. Once again, the contest is open to everyone in the world. Good luck!