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Aug

And The Three Winners Of The Android Police Book Giveaway #7 Are...

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways, Development

The 7th Android Police book giveaway is now over, and we've picked the winners. A copy of Android 3.0 Application Development Cookbook will be shipped to each of the following readers who answered this question, as selected by Packt and Android Police:

What interests you the most about this book?

Joe Rivera:

What this book feels like to me is a great opportunity to learn about development the right way as opposed to searching 5 different forum sites just to get sent to 10 different webpages and have you give your email for more assistance that gets you 100 pieces of junk mail every day when all I wanted to know was where to start reading.

Aug

[Book Giveaway #7] Three Of You Will Master Honeycomb Development With Packt's "Android 3.0 Application Development Cookbook"

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Contests / Giveaways, Development

Last Updated: August 18th, 2011

We're back at it again, this time with a book that will make you master of the Honeycomb development domain. Having collaborated with O'Reilly, For Dummies, and informIT before, for this giveaway we've partnered up with a fourth publishing company, Packt Publishing.

Android 3.0 Application Development Cookbook

We're giving away three copies of Android 3.0 Application Development Cookbook by Kyle Merrifield Mew, and luckily for you, dear aspiring developer, entering the giveaway is quite simple.

To whet your appetite, the quick-and-dirty points about the book:

Overview of Android 3.0 Application Development Cookbook

Written for Android 3.0 but also applicable to lower versions

Quickly develop applications that take advantage of the very latest mobile technologies, including web apps, sensors, and touch screens

Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Discover tips and tricks for varied and imaginative uses of the latest Android features

How To Win

This contest is now over.

Aug

And The Three Winners Of The Android Police Book Giveaway #6 Are...

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways, Development

The 6th Android Police book giveaway is now over, and we've picked the winners. A copy of Android Application Development For Dummies will be shipped to each of the following readers, selected by For Dummies and Android Police, who answered this question:

Why should we pick you to be one of the 3 winners?

bjn714:

I personally do not feel I am worthy of this, but I talked to a psychic and she channeled her energy through my DroidX with CM7 and tells me that I will soon have a Droid Bionic and the Bionic told her that I deserve to write applications for it.

Jul

And The Three Winners Of The Android Police Book Giveaway #5 Are...

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways, Development

The 5th Android Police book giveaway is now over, and we've picked the winners. A copy of Developing Android Applications with Adobe AIR will be shipped to each of the following readers, selected by O'Reilly and Android Police, who answered this question:

Why do you think developers should build their apps with Adobe AIR instead of using a conventional approach?

Jeff:

I've long thought AIR made sense as a mobile development platform due to its ease of development and cross-platform potential. I'd actually hoped the original iPhone devkit would be AIR, but that would have wrestled away more control than Apple is willing to give.

Jul

[Book Giveaway #6] Want To Develop Android Apps? We're Giving Away "Android Application Development For Dummies" To Three Lucky Readers

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways, Development

Last Updated: August 4th, 2011

In the 6th weekly giveaway of Android books, Android Police has partnered with yet another great publishing company that I'm sure everyone has heard of before - For Dummies. Don't worry, O'Reilly and informIT fans, we'll continue giving out their books as well, switching between all 3 companies as we go along.

Android Application Development For Dummies

Today, we're giving away Android Application Development For Dummies, published in December 2010, and, as usual, we're asking for nothing but a minute of your time in return.

As you may have picked up from the title, this book is geared at those just looking to get into Android development.

Jul

[Book Giveaway #5] Looking To Develop Adobe AIR-Based Android Apps? We're Giving Away "Developing Android Applications With Adobe AIR" To Three Lucky Readers

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in Contests / Giveaways, Development

Last Updated: July 26th, 2011

To help aspiring Android developers get off the ground and develop our next dream app, Android Police has partnered with O'Reilly Media, one of the largest technical book publishers, to give away a multitude of Android books to our readers. Each week or so for the next few months, we'll be giving away a different O'Reilly Android book, asking for nothing but a minute of your time in return.

Developing Android Applications with Adobe AIR

For the fifth contest in the series, we chose to give away Véronique Brossier's Developing Android Applications with Adobe AIR, which was published by O'Reilly just a few months back (in April 2011, to be exact).

Jul

And The Five Winners Of The Android Police Book Giveaway #4 Are...

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways, Development

If you've been following Android Police, you've probably seen the Android programming book giveaway series that we're doing together with O'Reilly Media and now informIT (#1, #2, #3, #4). It's time to announce the winners of the 4th giveaway, selected by the joint AP/informIT panel, who will receive a brand new copy of Android Wireless Application Development (2nd Edition).

Again, the question was:

What kind of app are you thinking of making as your first project?

Here are the winners and their comments:

Brian:

The first app I have in mind is a soundboard game for toddlers.

Jul

And The Three Winners Of The Android Police Book Giveaway #3 Are...

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways, Development

If you've been following Android Police, you've probably seen the Android programming book giveaway series that we're doing together with O'Reilly Media (#1, #2, #3). It's time to announce the winners of the 3rd giveaway, selected by the joint AP/O'Reilly panel, who will receive a brand new copy of Developing Android Applications with Flex 4.5.

Again, the question was:

Tell everyone why they should use Flex for developing Android apps as opposed to the conventional approach.

Here are the winners and their comments:

Vishal:

I don't expect to win but I'm new to mobile development and would like to make Android the first platform that I develop for.

Jul

[Editorial] Why Honeycomb Is Taking A Beating (And What Google Needs To Do To Fix It)

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Editorials, Honeycomb 3.0/3.1/3.2

Last Updated: January 28th, 2012

When the iPad first hit the market, it changed the way consumers looked at computing, mobile devices, and productivity. It provided an easy way to accomplish basic tasks, a convenient way to surf the web, and bridged the gap between laptop and smartphone. As the natural competitor to iOS, Android had to fire back with a device that was comparable in function: the Motorola XOOM, the world's first Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet. The XOOM and most subsequent Honeycomb tablets have achieved both form and functionality that rivals - and in most cases, bests - that of the iPad/2, so why hasn't the Android tablet market exploded?

Jul

[Book Giveaway #4] Want To Be An Android Developer? We're Giving Away "Android Wireless Application Development" To 5 Lucky Readers

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways, Development

Last Updated: July 12th, 2011

To help aspiring Android developers get off the ground and develop our next dream app, and after having massive success with our O'Reilly partnership, Android Police has partnered with informIT to give away a multitude of Android books to our readers. Each week or so, we're going to be giving away a different informIT Android book, asking for nothing but a minute of your time in return.

Android Wireless Application Development, 2nd Edition

To start things off, we're giving away Android Wireless Application Development, 2nd Edition, which was written by Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey and published by Addison-Wesley Professional in December 2010.