Android Cookbook  (English, Paperback, Darwin Ian F.)

Android Cookbook, edited by Ian F. Darwin and published by O’Reilly, presents a collection of problems and solutions for Android developers. It will help the programmers use guidelines for designing successful Android apps, work with UI controls, effective layouts, and graphical elements. The book will also help you learn how to make the optimum usage of Android’s rich features, save and retrieve application data in files, SD cards, and embedded databases. It explains how to access RESTful web services, RSS and ATOM feeds and other information from websites; how to create location-aware services to find locations and landmarks, and situate them on Google Maps and OpenStreetMap; and how to test and troubleshoot individual components and your entire application.

About Ian F. Darwin

Ian F. Darwin has been working in the computer industry for the past thirty years. He wrote the freeware file(1) command used on Linux and BSD and has authored Checking C Programs with Lint, Java Cookbook, and more than seventy articles and courses on C and Unix. Apart from programming and consulting, Darwin teaches UNIX, C, and Java for Learning Tree International, one of the world's biggest technical training companies.

About O’Reilly

O’Reilly is a renowned media house which has been publishing technology books, tech conferences, IT courses and news, online services, magazines, and research journals since 1978. Some of the books published by O’Reilly are Lean UX Workshop, Software Architecture Fundamentals Part 2: Taking a Deeper Dive, Bioinformatics Data Skills, Head First JavaScript Programming, and Python Networking Programming Cookbook.