This review is from: Beginning Android Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
I viewed many books on here regarding Android development and, thinking I was indeed the target audience, I started with Android Development for Dummies…. Although not a bad book, it doesn’t cover anyway near the amount this book does and not in as much detail either. The basics are all covered first, especially the layouts and then each item and how each item is handled (ie: buttons, checkboxes) You do create many apps, but repetative exercises are good for learning. I actually want to read every single page in this book and find it well put together, informative, and examples are easily followed. Very glad I got this book rather than being disappointed by others!
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This review is from: Beginning Android Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
I agree with those reviewers who gave this book 4 and 5 stars; their reviews are accurate and this book is a good book for beginning Android programming in that there are very clear explanations and very helpful exercises. The reason why I have only given it one star is that it is NOT a book for a person initiating their programming skills with Android as the current release of the Android SDK plug-in to Eclipse has too many differences from the book. I stumbled for ages on the first exercise where it reported that the android:icon referenced was in error – turned out that it wasn’t my typing – the image name wasn’t present as expected, there is a new one in it’s place. All the reported faults from the errata web site have been included in the issue I purchased (January 2012) but sadly the book is out of date with the Android world. So, I repeat, if you are a newbie to any programming stay away from this book until it can be updated to current development.
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This review is from: Beginning Android Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
All the basics, with few missing areas for the beginner, but good overall.
Bit naughty in that it uses lots of anonymous inner classes – which on a mobile platform costs memory and makes it harder to follow. You have to READ everything to make sure you don’t miss anything too and the later explanations can be a bit unnecessary but better than skipping over things too lightly.
Final word – with this and another book I fairly easily managed to make and publish an Android app in under a month.
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This should be your 1st buy over any others!,
I viewed many books on here regarding Android development and, thinking I was indeed the target audience, I started with Android Development for Dummies…. Although not a bad book, it doesn’t cover anyway near the amount this book does and not in as much detail either. The basics are all covered first, especially the layouts and then each item and how each item is handled (ie: buttons, checkboxes) You do create many apps, but repetative exercises are good for learning.
I actually want to read every single page in this book and find it well put together, informative, and examples are easily followed. Very glad I got this book rather than being disappointed by others!
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|Sadly out of date,
I agree with those reviewers who gave this book 4 and 5 stars; their reviews are accurate and this book is a good book for beginning Android programming in that there are very clear explanations and very helpful exercises.
The reason why I have only given it one star is that it is NOT a book for a person initiating their programming skills with Android as the current release of the Android SDK plug-in to Eclipse has too many differences from the book. I stumbled for ages on the first exercise where it reported that the android:icon referenced was in error – turned out that it wasn’t my typing – the image name wasn’t present as expected, there is a new one in it’s place.
All the reported faults from the errata web site have been included in the issue I purchased (January 2012) but sadly the book is out of date with the Android world.
So, I repeat, if you are a newbie to any programming stay away from this book until it can be updated to current development.
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|Excellent grounding,
All the basics, with few missing areas for the beginner, but good overall.
Bit naughty in that it uses lots of anonymous inner classes – which on a mobile platform costs memory and makes it harder to follow. You have to READ everything to make sure you don’t miss anything too and the later explanations can be a bit unnecessary but better than skipping over things too lightly.
Final word – with this and another book I fairly easily managed to make and publish an Android app in under a month.
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