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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide is an introductory Android book for programmers with Java experience.

Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular Android Bootcamp course, this guide will lead you through the wilderness using hands-on example apps combined with clear explanations of key concepts and APIs. This book focuses on practical techniques for developing apps compatible with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and up, including coverage of Lollipop and material design.

Write and run code every step of the way, creating apps that integrate with other Android apps, download and display pictures from the web, play sounds, and more. Each chapter and app has been designed and tested to provide the knowledge and experience you need to get started in Android development.

Big Nerd Ranch specializes in developing and designing innovative applications for clients around the world. Our experts teach others through our books, bootcamps, and onsite training. Whether it's Android, iOS, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Cocoa, Mac OS X, JavaScript, HTML5 or UX/UI, we've got you covered.

The Android team is constantly improving and updating Android Studio and other tools. As a result, some of the instructions we provide in the book are no longer correct. You can find an addendum addressing breaking changes at:

https://github.com/bignerdranch/AndroidCourseResources/raw/master/2ndEdition/Errata/2eAddendum.pdf.

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Title	Android Application Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, 4/e	Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2/e	Introduction to Android Application Development: Android Essentials, 5/e	Android 6 for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach, 3/e
Author(s)	Carmen Delessio, Lauren Darcey, Shane Conder	Bill Phillips, Chris Stewart, Brian Hardy, Kristin Marsicano	Joseph Annuzzi Jr., Lauren Darcey, Shane Conder	Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel, Alexander Wald
Page Count	432	600	704	480
Pub Date	07/29/2015	07/24/2015	12/28/2015	12/04/2015
Binding	Paper	Paper	Paper	Paper
Print ISBN	0672337398	0134171454	013438945X	0134289366
Kindle	Available	Available	-	-
Series	Sams Teach Yourself	Big Nerd Ranch Guides	Developer's Library	Deitel Developer Series
Brief Description	Easy, full-color step-by-step tutorial for everyone who wants to write apps for the newest Android phones and tablets. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll build complete Android 5 apps from the ground up with Android Studio. As you do, you’ll master key skills for designing, developing, and publishing meaningful apps of your own.	This book focuses on practical techniques for developing apps. Write and run code every step of the way, creating apps that integrate with other Android apps, download and display pictures from the web, play sounds, and more. Each chapter and app has been designed and tested to provide the knowledge and experience you need to get started in Android development.	This book covers everything you need to start developing professional apps for modern Android devices. If you’re serious about Android development, this guide will prepare you to build virtually any app you can imagine! Experts guide you through setting up your development environment, designing user interfaces, developing for diverse devices, and optimizing your entire app-development process.	This book gives you everything you’ll need to start developing great Android M apps quickly and getting them published on Google Play. The book uses an app-driven approach—each new technology is discussed in the context of seven fully tested Android apps, complete with code highlighting, code walkthroughs and sample outputs

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About the Author

Bill Phillips, a software engineer and instructor at Big Nerd Ranch, cowrote and taught the original Big Nerd Ranch Android bootcamp, as well as the first edition of this book. Since then he has been teaching, writing blog posts, reading various kinds of literature, writing and playing music, and working on books.

Chris Stewart is the director of the Android team at Big Nerd Ranch, where he is also a senior Android bootcamp instructor. He is dedicated to constant improvement and works to perfect his craft as much as possible. When not in front of a computer, Chris enjoys hiking and traveling.

Brian Hardy is director of iOS and Cocoa engineering at Big Nerd Ranch. He was one of the first Android bootcamp instructors and has worked with many clients to develop high quality mobile applications for Android and iOS. When not working with his development team to build better software or hacking on his latest pet project, Brian enjoys spending time with friends and family X usually around the grill.

Kristin Marsicano is an Android developer and senior instructor at Big Nerd Ranch. Always an educator at heart, she is passionate about learning, software development, and the intersection of the two. When she is not developing apps or sharing her love of Android in the classroom, you can find Kristin cooking for her growing family, doing yoga, or learning something new.

Paperback: 600 pages
Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch Guides; 2 edition (August 3, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0134171454
ISBN-13: 978-0134171456
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.7 x 9.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
Average Customer Review: 133 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #3725 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming

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N. Lu

My initial impressions of the book were good. It was what I was looking for

April 21, 2016

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I'm writing this review as someone who is a beginner with both Java and Android, which I believe many who will pick up this book will be. The book does warn you, however that you should have a sufficient level of Java familiarity in order to begin.

My initial impressions of the book were good. It was what I was looking for; a step-by-step manual for building your first Android App. The first project was a simple geography quiz app named GeoQuiz. The lines of code and programming concepts were explained as I went along. Diagrams were present in order to explain the structure of the program. If there were further resources available, the book would provide a link to those resources. There were even bonus challenges at the end of one of the chapters.

However, things start to unravel by the time we reach the second project. It starts off with inconsistency issues such as the naming conventions used for the files. As a beginner, if you tell me one way to do things, then switch to another way without explanation, then that's going to confuse some people. The bonus challenges by this point also become less present, so there's less chance to put into practice what you've learned.

Also, I feel that by the second project, the authors begin to explain things much less so than before. It would be good if this was a gradual progression, but the learning curve seems to have gone from easy-medium to WTF. I feel like this book is the manual Big Nerd Ranch would use in their Android bootcamps, but minus the thorough explanations. Descriptions of new concepts are crammed into 1-2 sentences. There is a forum where users can ask and answer questions, but as of late 2015, the forum moderators seem to have taken a holiday so it's mostly become a place to ask questions which will not be answered anytime soon.

What I like about this book is that the code and new code that you add are very clear; it's easy to follow along and just copy their code. However, if one wants to understand the code versus merely copying the syntax, I would recommend going onto Google's Android site and working with the Training tutorials available for free. I wouldn't recommend this book to one just learning Android or Java, but maybe later on down the track, when one has more experience.

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In my humble opinion

Pretty good book

January 3, 2017

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Pretty good book. Touches most of the topics that you would encounter as an Android developer, I think. No book can go as deep into the subject as you would like, but by working through this one you should be able to figure out what direction you need to go in order to accomplish your goals. Programming is a very huge and deep subject and nobody can hope to cover it all, but this is probably about as thorough an introduction as you are likely to find. The examples are very good, consistent, and interesting enough. Recommend working through each chapter/example a couple of times as that seems to help make things stick.
It is not a basic intro to programming, so don't expect to find anything about what a variable is, how "switch" statements work, etc.

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Archangel

Another great book to learn Android Programming!!!

July 18, 2016

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I just finished reviewing the 1st book I read about Android Programming "Head First Android Development" ( I rated it 5 stars too!). This book makes the perfect follow up for the "Head First Android Development" book. It is slightly more advanced but it is a little more thorough and it is still understandable for the programming novice. Do the lab exercises to truly learn how to program with Android Studio.

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Betsy Transom

Great book. Not for someone shaky with Java

February 15, 2017

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Great book. Not for someone shaky with Java, but excellent for anyone who wants to get started with Android development. I genuinely learned more from this book than I did from taking a university class. The book is very detailed and really shows you from the bottom up of how to create an Android app. The authors give practical information that would apply to anyone looking to make Android development a career. My favorite aspect about the book is that there are challenges at the end of each chapter to give the reader a chance to review what they learned in the chapter before moving on to the next. I've read too many books of this kind where they don't challenge you to reinforce what you just read and so it is most likely forgotten. I would highly recommend this book.

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stephen costa

Error in very first app, chapter 1

March 2, 2016

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The 2nd edition first printing has a major error in the very first application. After some confusion and struggling, I went the publisher's website and discovered that this was a problem and printed the errata that corrected the problem. The second printing supposedly corrects the error; I don't know if that printing is available as yet.

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The Big Nerd ranch developers seem better than almost any other book authors at keeping up

April 19, 2017

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Android Studio keeps changing at a dizzying pace without any warning from Google. The Big Nerd ranch developers seem better than almost any other book authors at keeping up. I recommend this book. The only difficult part is that some of the examples span several chapters, so if you make a small mistake, the code in the following chapters won't work.

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Simply the best. Great for beginners.

July 26, 2016

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I've used a few different Android tutorials, and this one is head and shoulders above the rest. It is extremely beginner friendly. You need to already have a decent base in Java before you begin, but the authors do a great job of walking you through some of the more advanced Java topics that you'll come across. They've physically taught hundreds of Android students, and it definitely shows in their writing, as they're perfectly aware of the common pitfalls where students will stumble. If you're serious about learning Android, look no further, you've found your book.

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Trent Taylor

Definitely Recommend It.

April 30, 2017

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Really liked the format and the layout of the book. Worked through it extremely fast and gave me a quick leg up on Android development.

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