Murach's Android Programming (2nd Edition) 2nd Edition

by Joel Murach (Author)

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Want to learn how to develop Android apps? Then don't miss our new book: Murach's Android Programming (2nd Edition). It teaches you how to develop high-quality apps like the ones you can find in the Google Play store. The only prerequisite is a basic knowledge of Java. Everything else, including software installation, is covered.

To start, this book shows the Android Studio and Java skills you need to develop a Tip Calculator app for a smartphone or tablet. Then, it expands upon this app to show must-have Android skills such as working with layouts, widgets, events, themes, styles, menus, preferences, and fragments. Next, this book presents two more apps that illustrate Android skills programmers use every day, such as working with threads, files, adapters, intents, services, notifications, broadcast receivers, SQLite databases, content providers, and app widgets. Finally, this book presents an app that uses the Google Maps API and shows you how to submit your finished apps to the Google Play store.

The real-world apps let you see how the skills you're learning work together, and they illustrate how and when you'd use each skill. And all the content is presented in Murach's distinctive paired-pages style that developers find so clear and time-saving for both training and reference.

Also, the download for this book now includes a PDF file that shows how to take advantage of the new features of Android Studio that were introduced in 2017, and it shows how to fix some other issues so the apps presented in this book still work correctly with the latest versions of Android.

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"I like the fact that the book approaches the subject by using example apps as the theme of study, and working through the skills incrementally from easy to difficult. These case-study apps are complete apps by themselves and are worthy of being in the Android app stores." --Jason Ong, ASP.NET World

About the Author

Joel Murach is the oldest son of publishing pioneer Mike Murach. Joel has been writing and editing books about computer programming for over 20 years now. During that time, he has written extensively on a wide range of Java, .NET, web, and database technologies. He has had best-selling books in all of those categories! In his books, you can see his clear approach to teaching any subject.Besides being a successful author, Joel is also a very talented musician. He writes and performs for his band, Joel Murach and the Low Rollers with regularity in the Bay Area.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mike Murach & Associates; 2nd edition (December 11, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 663 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1890774936
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1890774936
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.95 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.3 x 1.5 x 10.2 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,021,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #559 in Mobile App Development & Programming
- #570 in Java Programming
- #2,698 in Computer Programming Languages

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William Miller

This book is a joke. Don't waste your money or time.

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2020

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A practical book is a book that tries to explain how to do something. Murach’s Android Programming 2nd Edition is a practical book that is supposed to show the reader how to program in android. I judge practical books by whether or not they show me what they say they are going to show me and how often I have to go to resources other than the book (for example YouTube) to understand info presented in the book, clarify topics presented in the book, etc.

This book miserably fails both of my criteria. It ties one other book I bought on Java as the worst programming books I have read. It is confusing and frustrating (to bad there aren't negative star ratings). I repeatedly find myself in the same routine—I spend a few minutes reading a section of the book, then I spend an hour or two trying to make sense of it online. (Just as a reference, a book I would consider excellent by the criteria I state above is Mark Lutz’s Learning Python).

This book is a complete waste of money and time. I wish I could return it, but it is required for a class I am in

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Nelson

Old Reference Material

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2019

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This is an OK book to use as a secondary or tertiary reference, but is far too outdated to be used as a current guide in the quickly advancing development environment of Android. Get a newer edition or better yet a different book!

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Lisa Ann Benson

The world has moved on

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2019

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This book might have been great (maybe) in its day, but Java has moved on, making this book difficult to use. The exercises are old and require varying degrees of update before you can use them. References are no longer correct. And finally, while the author if fairly good at telling you what to do, he fails to tell you much about why you are doing it.

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robert

The book is very detailed. Using for a textbook ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2016

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The book is very detailed. Using for a textbook in my class. Other students at my school have also bought this book just to use it outside of class because of the approach Murach uses in teaching a person step by step how to do it right. Also using android studio.

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Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2018

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I like the format of the book but it is just too out dated.

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Ryan S.

Its a book

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2018