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Android in Practice

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"Android in Practice" is everything an experienced developer needs to develop first class applications for the Android platform. While not an omnibus tour, it includes everything a developer needs, including the OS tasking and networking models, UI, and storage.

Perhaps just as importantly, for honest-to-FSM professional developers it includes good coverage of setting up a build and test environment that will work with your pre-existing CI process.

"Hello, Android" is great if you don't know what you are doing. If you are a professional software developer, this is the book for you.

I am so thrilled to have purchased this book that I broke my own lazy rule about not writing reviews.

This is well written, the code is so beautifully annotated, the examples practical and not simplistic.

I have a stack of useless books in this genre that are no better than what I could find in a 5 minute search on the web.

This book is worth every penny. Thank you authors.

I got started with the O'Reilly book, but half way through I realized it was not cohesive and needed to try something else.

Android in Practice is an excellent book, especially if you already know Java.

Still not totally perfect, but I guess it is hard to be complete in less than a few thousand pages - I will probably read Pro Android and waiting for Head First Android, just to fill in some of the gaps.

One thing I would have liked would be an index of API's - the book policy is to send you to the Android site for those, since they frequently change - but still, I think it would have been better if the book presented some common widgets with additional options in a table format in an appendix.

In this book you will notice that the authors understood the platform really well and they have an excellent way of sharing this with the reader.

The one thing I really like about this book is that it makes no compromisses in the quality of the examples. While other Android introductions typically avoid using advanced concepts, as asynchronous reading of web resources, for their introduction examples, this book uses the all the right concepts directly from the beginning. This might make this book a little bit heavy for Android starters but once you are over the initial learning experience you should get this one.

You also find lots of examples for typical implementation requirements, which are hard to find otherwise.

A must buy for any serious Android developer.