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The comprehensive developer guide to the latest Android features and capabilities

Professional Android, 4th Edition shows developers how to leverage the latest features of Android to create robust and compelling mobile apps. This hands-on approach provides in-depth coverage through a series of projects, each introducing a new Android platform feature and highlighting the techniques and best practices that exploit its utmost functionality. The exercises begin simply, and gradually build into advanced Android development. Clear, concise examples show you how to quickly construct real-world mobile applications.

This book is your guide to smart, efficient, effective Android development.

  • Learn the best practices that get more out of Android
  • Understand the anatomy, lifecycle, and UI metaphor of Android apps
  • Design for all mobile platforms, including tablets
  • Utilize both the Android framework and Google Play services
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  5. Publication date
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Hands-on Android development using the platform's latest features

This new Fourth Edition is fully revised and expanded to provide in-depth coverage of the Android SDK, 10 years after its first release. It includes detailed coverage of the fundamentals needed by novice developers, and explores advanced features and best practices essential to experienced Android developers creating compelling user experiences. Hands-on-exercises clarify complex concepts, while in-depth coverage with a practical focus provides an intuitive grasp of tools, APIs, and best practices for Android development, helping you translate new skills into real-world solutions for your users.

Professional Android:

  • Covers the latest Android APIs, including the Job Scheduler, Android Architecture Components (including Live Data and Room), and Data Binding
  • Offers a detailed exploration of the Android Studio IDE and an introduction to Kotlin®
  • Introduces material design principles and offers a detailed look at design guidelines, navigation patterns, and UI best practices
  • Demonstrates techniques to create compelling UIs for all Android form factors
  • Explores Firebase® and Google Play™ services API libraries, including maps, location-based services, and the Awareness API
  • Develops a skill set that provides a robust foundation for future Android development projects

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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Hands-on Android development using the platform's latest features

This new Fourth Edition is fully revised and expanded to provide in-depth coverage of the Android SDK, 10 years after its first release. It includes detailed coverage of the fundamentals needed by novice developers, and explores advanced features and best practices essential to experienced Android developers creating compelling user experiences. Hands-on-exercises clarify complex concepts, while in-depth coverage with a practical focus provides an intuitive grasp of tools, APIs, and best practices for Android development, helping you translate new skills into real-world solutions for your users.

Professional Android:

  • Covers the latest Android APIs, including the Job Scheduler, Android Architecture Components (including Live Data and Room), and Data Binding
  • Offers a detailed exploration of the Android Studio IDE and an introduction to Kotlin(R)
  • Introduces material design principles and offers a detailed look at design guidelines, navigation patterns, and UI best practices
  • Demonstrates techniques to create compelling UIs for all Android form factors
  • Explores Firebase(R) and Google Play(TM) services API libraries, including maps, location-based services, and the Awareness API
  • Develops a skill set that provides a robust foundation for future Android development projects

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1118949528
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wrox Press; 4th Revised ed. edition (September 25, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 928 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781118949528
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118949528
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 1.9 x 9.2 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Reto Meier has been helping Android developers create the best applications possible for their users since the initial Android release in 2007.

Reto is an experienced software developer with more than 20 years experience in application design and development. Reto has been involved in Android since the initial release in 2007, and has spent 10 years as a Developer Advocate, contributing countless articles, online training, conference talks, and YouTube videos to the developer community.

Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Reto Meier now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Must have book for android development.
As always, an amazing book from Reto & now Ian. Android has changed a lot over past 10 years since first book, and the book is 800+ pages. Can be a bit overwhelming, but the book does a great job walking you through the leaning curve..I have been developing on Android for 10 years now, and I learned something new in the first 15 minutes of reading..I highly recommend this..
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Mark Russell
5.0 out of 5 stars A Bit Technical But Thorough
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2023
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I work in a team developing Android apps even though I'm not that knowledgeable about all aspects of Android development. This book is the best addition to my Android library yet.
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Louis
5.0 out of 5 stars More like a reference than a beginner's book
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2019
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You should know some Android basics before diving into this book. It's also recommended that you're comfortable with Java. It's as if Google made a book out of their documentation/guides, but better explained.

The author provides general code structure for the concepts explained in the book, and also sample apps that apply the concepts of some of the chapters.

If you're new to Android, I recommend books like "Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide". You should get this book thereafter.
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Syed F. Jalal
4.0 out of 5 stars Good android book
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2019
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Great book, explains the Android principles in quite a bit of detail. I was looking for camera2 API explanation and found few books that had the material on it...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must have book for android development.
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2018
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As always, an amazing book from Reto & now Ian. Android has changed a lot over past 10 years since first book, and the book is 800+ pages. Can be a bit overwhelming, but the book does a great job walking you through the leaning curve..

I have been developing on Android for 10 years now, and I learned something new in the first 15 minutes of reading..

I highly recommend this..
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must have book for android development.
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2018
As always, an amazing book from Reto & now Ian. Android has changed a lot over past 10 years since first book, and the book is 800+ pages. Can be a bit overwhelming, but the book does a great job walking you through the leaning curve..

I have been developing on Android for 10 years now, and I learned something new in the first 15 minutes of reading..

I highly recommend this..
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3.0 out of 5 stars Just rambles throuh material without much connection, hard to follow, missing pieces
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2019
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I understand that in some ways this is supposed to be a reference book. However, it just does not do any work to bring concepts together. The entire thing just feels like loosely connected articles or something.
I was hoping for a book that puts things together and explains why I should be using PagerView with Fragments versus some other idea. I was looking for some guidance on details and this book really doesn't have that.
It does have a list of things and cover some things you may not find elsewhere, but for that it could've just been a list of the technologies / APIs that you should focus on.
I'm not sure who this book is for, because you definitely cannot really learn Android programming from this. You can learn about pieces of functionality in Android Programming but you can't really learn how the pieces fit together.
It's not for an intermediate developer because advanced items aren't really covered in enough depth to get you from intermediate to professional. And, if you're a professional developer you probably know most of these things anyways and there isn't strong in-depth coverage here.
For example, I've been developing Android apps for about 3 years now (within my 25 years of Windows development) and yesterday I was working with the Android Studio template project based upon tabs which implements PagerView and Fragments. I wanted to know more so I came to the book and read the section on Fragments. There were some things in the book about FragmentManager, etc. But that info could never get me through the code that is in the Android Studio project template. The explanations I found online are far better.
I understand the challenge of a book is that it cannot contain everything for everyone, but this one just doesn't have enough throughout to really do much for anyone.
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WB
2.0 out of 5 stars Already Obsolete. Not as good as previous releases
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2018
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I've enjoyed the previous two releases of this book but this one seems rather haphazard. If I didn't know anything about Android programming I would be completely lost. After such a long wait for this release, presumably because of rapid updates to the Android APIs, it immediately opens with a deprecated exercise that is full of typos (Chapter 3). I understand that not everything is going to be caught . . . this book has been in the works for a couple of years but it's already grossly obsolete. I would expect Wrox to address this on its site since the book is written to Oreo but was released well after Pie was previewed and still after Pie was released but Wrox doesn't address this at all. I see the book as useless unless a supplement is published to address life after Oreo.
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Andy
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is Crystal clear at explaining things
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2018
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Without dumbing everything down to much this book makes understanding Android development very clear and concise. Digesting information from this book is like eating cake. The only thing left to do is continue reading and practice practice practice. I have a bookshelf full of Android books and this is simple to read on the level of Head First Android 2nd edition but this book has more information.
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Samie_ug
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is good
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2019
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I have gone through the first few chapters. The book is well written, and easy to follow. I would recommend it to anyone trying to get into Android development.
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Reydi Piña Piña
5.0 out of 5 stars Es un libro magnífico.
Reviewed in Mexico on October 9, 2018
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Es un libro abundante en su tema, explica todo de una manera amena. Lo recomiendo ampliamente. Además Amazon me respetó el precio más bajo, al final me salió más barato que lo que cuesta en la misma empresa editora del libro (Wiley). Lo agradezco mucho.
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Alberto
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book!
Reviewed in Italy on February 10, 2019
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This book is the "Android developer's bible" in my opinion. It explains very well the Android development basic concepts and gives detailed step-by-step explainations and examples. It explains in detail how to install and setup the android environment, it tell you how to publish/maintain apps in the store and it gives "best practice hints" while reading. The earthquake app created as example is also very nice!

Some parts of the book are already "outdated" (well, not so much actually) but that's because android and Java are evolving quickly and the author is not phisically able to release a new edition of the book each 4 months.

You cannot be a Java novice because you would not understand anything but no prior android development skills are required. This book also talks about Kotlin which is very good!
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Merlin73
2.0 out of 5 stars Pitched at an intermediate/advanced level but without the concepts
Reviewed in Australia on September 7, 2019
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I was excited about this book because I thought it would take me beyond the "hello world" Android app phase to building useful interoperable professional grade Android apps.

It took me beyond "hello world" but not much. It was pitched to an intermediate/advanced level in that there is a lot of assumed knowledge and steps are not fully explained which is fine - I have designed simple Android apps before and am comfortable with Java so no problem I can follow.

So far that's acceptable so how about some advanced concepts that will take my app to the next level!? Nope, none of the really meaty advanced topics ... Like how do you connect to a networked DB? A RESTful API or connecting to cloud resources? Nope nadda nothing on that.

To be fair, it was fairly informative on app deployment strategies - which was genuinely helpful to me and earns the book a couple of stars. But nothing on REST or cloud based resources in this day and age? hmmm nah there's better books out there.
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Cliente de Amazon
3.0 out of 5 stars Too verbose
Reviewed in Mexico on May 20, 2022
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Too verbose and too much theory
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Mohammed
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, with excellent features.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2020
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This book requires close study, by that I mean reading, re-reading, imagining, trying out things to test your understanding - in short restructuring in your own mind to fully grasp things. If that is done then it is a good-to-excellent book. I am a very visual learner, the old adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words" is so true in any context. I just wish that the authors had included a few more diagrams and analogies to ease the point home.
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