Android Studio Cookbook: Design, test, and debug your apps using Android Studio

van Drongelen

$24.99 ~~$35.99~~

4.5 (4 Ratings)

eBook Oct 2015 232 pages 1st Edition

van Drongelen

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eBook Oct 2015 232 pages 1st Edition

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See what Material design is about and how to apply it your apps
Explore the possibilities to develop apps that works on any type of device
A step-by-step practical guide that will help you build improved applications, change their look, and debug them

Description

This book starts with an introduction of Android Studio and why you should use this IDE rather than Eclipse. Moving ahead, it teaches you to build a simple app that requires no backend setup but uses Google Cloud or Parse instead. After that, you will learn how to create an Android app that can send and receive text and images using Google Cloud or Parse as a backend. It explains the concepts of Material design and how to apply them to an Android app. Also, it shows you how to build an app that runs on an Android wear device. Later, it explains how to build an app that takes advantage of the latest Android SDK while still supporting older Android versions. It also demonstrates how the performance of an app can be improved and how memory management tools that come with the Android Studio IDE can help you achieve this. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop high quality apps with a minimum amount of effort using the Android Studio IDE.

Who is this book for?

This book is for developers that are already familiar with programming concepts and have already started creating apps for the Android platform, for example, by using the Eclipse IDE. It is for developers who intend to use Android Studio as their primary IDE or want to use Android Studio more efficiently.

What you will learn

Develop Android Studio applications using Genymotion
Apply the concepts of Material design to your applications
Use memory monitoring tools to tweak performance
Build applications for Android Wearable
Capture images, video, or audio within your Android app
Use content providers to display data
Build apps with a cloud-based backend
Create media-related apps that will run on phones, phablets, tablets, and TVs

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Fabio Radin Nov 29, 2015

The book by Mike van Drongelen is really well written and will guide you through the latest IDE provided by Google: Android Studio.Once downloaded, installed and configured Android Studio (argument of the first chapter of the book), you are put in the battlefield very quickly. The cookbook style is really powerful in my experience and in this case, too. You can jump from one recipe to the other without any worries about having "lost something". In any case, you could jump back to something skipped before, in case you need it...Android Studio could be a bit confusing if you came from Eclipse. There are so much features in the IDE and a core (based on gradle) that could confuse a beginner or someone used to Eclipse. To simplify the approach, a very simple technique is used in the book: it does not talk about it! It simply show you in every chapter something new, but talking about something else. In this way, you are introduced to the Material Desing, to Android Wear, to powerful fragments and so on, using the IDE and very nice examples, but without speaking "directly" of the IDE.A couple of items must be highlighted: the first one is the information provided about emulators. Everyone using Eclipse and the standard Android Emulator knows how heavy and slow it could be. Mike will show you some alternatives (explaining you pros and cons of all of them!) in order to reach the target: emulate and Android device without needing a NASA supercomputer. The second item is the (short) introduction he gives about beta testing in the Google Play Store environment. I found it very useful for anyone who have intention to publish his application on the market!In my opinion this is one of the best book written on the Android Studio IDE. I will wait for the book explaining all the gradle features!

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Leonardo Jardim Marques Dec 23, 2015

Great book to make the jump from Android Eclipse programming to the new Android studio.If provides a great way to get used to your new Android developing environment with relevant and current examples like Android Wear.It guides you through the process of getting used too the environment, designing an app, testing it and deploying. It goes beyond Android Studio and would even be acceptable as an introductory Android programming book.

Paul Morris Dec 09, 2015

This book is an excellent way to acquaint yourself with Android development. From beginning steps to getting data from and writing to the cloud, to theming, to wearables, even consuming web services, this book will give you a well rounded experience. When finished reading you will be able to develop full-featured real-world applications for the Android platform. One of the most useful programming books I have ever purchased.

kp Jan 04, 2018

It was not as good as know not good for who knows beginning

Android Studio Cookbook: Design, test, and debug your apps using Android Studio

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