Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Brian Hardy (Author), Bill Phillips (Author)

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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 all versions of Android widely used today (Android 2.2 - 4.2). Write and run code every step of the way – creating apps that catalog crime scenes, browse photos, track your jogging route, 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.

Write and run code every step of the way — creating apps that catalog crime scenes, browse photos, track your jogging route, 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 provided the training we needed to get hundreds of engineers building skillfully on Android. This book is a great distillation of that training and will be a huge help to anyone looking to ramp up as well." – Mike Shaver, Director of Mobile Engineering, Facebook

"…a must-have for the developer just starting in Android or ready for more advanced techniques. I was impressed with this book’s content and clarity of presentation. The authors explain simple and complex Android topics with equal ease." – James Steele, author of The Android Developer's Cookbook

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Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch Guides; 1 edition (April 9, 2013)
Publication Date: April 9, 2013
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codemonkey

Fantastic book

May 18, 2013

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This is the first review I have ever written for a book.

The book claims to be "an introductory Android book for programmers with Java experience" and it does exactly what it says on the tin. This is what I liked most about the book:

1. the style is readable. I found myself actually enjoying the book. Many other technical programming books are simply too dry to read except as a reference. This book is a cover-to-cover read.
2. explanation is given. Instead of just presenting facts, the authors develop understanding through explanation.
3. real applications are developed. The authors introduce new material through real world examples that the reader follows along to. Similarly to the words of another reviewer here, occasionally it feels as if the reader is really in a course with the authors instructing in real time.

I am looking forward to further texts of this quality and style on more advanced Android programming from the authors.

There is a lot of rubbish out there. If you are looking to get into developing on Android then buy this book.

[ PS: An idiot reviewer here gave this book one star. He purchased a book that describes itself as an introductory text, then complained that the book was introductory. Please. ]

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JJart

Excellent book. However...

May 18, 2013

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I think the other reviewers sum it up pretty well. The author does a solid job of teaching you the fundamentals of Android and tells you EXACTLY what do to get the projects working.

However...

I'm reading this book in May of 2013, so the book is completely relevant. Android 4.2 is the current OS and the current version of Eclipse is the same the author is using. I am very happy about this.

I gave up on the Nerd Ranch iPhone book because the latest version of XCode was too different than the author's. Half the time I was trying to translate what the author was doing to the new Xcode way. Android doesn't change as much. However, there are little things like "fill_parent" that are used in books like Hello Android which is now deprecated. So if you learned from that book, you would be using a deprecated value for who knows how long! Hello Android is excellent too, but that was written before Honeycomb which changed everything!

So if it's mid 2013, I recommend this book. But don't let it sit on the shelf. Start it immediately. Books about mobile platforms become outdated very quickly.

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Charles Crolley

OUTSTANDING, if you're flexible.

May 9, 2014

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Positive first: if you're an accomplished C#/.NET, Java or iPhone developer, this is an outstanding primer.

Any book in this channel is obsolete before it's published. So I'll get my negative comment out of the way: if you need a play-by-play-step-by-step tutorial, this isn't the book for you. Some folks have posted positive reviews with the caveat that things are changing so fast this might be obsolete, and so it is -- if you want to follow along mindlessly in Eclipse. In fact, I installed Eclipse and was lost almost instantly, because stuff didn't look like the pictures in the book.

THAT SAID ------ I went BACK to Android Studio.

Now I'm using this text as a COMPANION to the (beta) Android Studio, and it's FANTASTIC! I don't like the way the book wants you to do everything by rote from a text-based coding interface, so I choose to ignore it. Instead, if you'll follow along in the chapters and do things in the Design view, then correlate them to the Text view, you'll learn a lot about how and why things work, and how to tweak them in the Text View if necessary.

The purpose of an IDE is to speed things up and make them more accessible, and my sole criticism of Big Nerd Ranch is they seem to forget that sometimes (in this and their iPhone books).

If you're even minimally mentally agile (as I), I HIGHLY recommend this book as a companion to Android Studio, and give yourself time and latitude to switch between the visual and text editors to see how they blend. The book is an excellent guide.

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D. Batt

The only beginning book I didn't return...

October 28, 2014

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I purchased five books on beginning android programming from Amazon and this is the one I kept! I am currently working through the chapters with Android Studio and it is going very well. So far, I understand everything I am coding. The great reviews and top seller status are not a fluke. I appreciate it when they show previous code as strikethrough in addition to the new code in bold. I think this makes it so easy to follow the changes. You should have some Java-like programming confidence, even if from a beginning tuturial. You can always reference more advanced topics when used.
BTW, I have downloaded the projects in this book, which were coded in Eclipse, and imported some directly into Android Studio from the Studio menus. They converted without issue. They build and run fine as long as you have the libraries and SDK's needed.
The only part of my learning experience that has been disappointing so far is the time required to launch a virtual device. However, I remembered an old, out of serivce phone I had stored away that was only worth $10 for trade in so I kept it. Well, it turns out that it loads an app very, very quickly. Maybe I can find an older tablet at a garage sale to test on it, too!

BTW, I really have to add a kudos to the excellent customer service provided by Amazon!!!

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