Android User Interface Development: Beginners Guide

Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Jason Morris has worked on software as diverse as fruit.
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I would think they would be in the downloaded samples, but they are not.. You have certain excercises that are implemented in the downloaded samples, while certain ones aren't There is no point in not providing a solution to a question. Also a minor gripe, the author works with the assumption that the user is not using an IDE.

Given the introductory nature of this book, I do not believe that anyone picking up this book will not be using an IDE. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. It's definitely a beginner book. I bought it as quick reference to areas I needed help in. Unfortunately the way the book was structured made it difficult. Each chapter has "time for action", "what just happened?

This cluttered the table of contents and made it very difficult to search for topics. The author also splits the code examples into many segments - explaining each segment at a time. While conceptually this is a great idea, in execution it made very difficult to see the whole code. Which in turn made it difficult to have an overview idea of what's happening. Not enough meat, too much potatoes. As the subtitle says, this book is for beginners and the author takes this mission seriously. The book follows a rigorous, step-by-step methodology.

The reader is expected to start from an empty project and extend it line by line while the book explains, what is going on. It is best to demonstrate with an excerpt: Assign it the ID skip, so that we can reference it in Java: There are books and trainings that call themselves hands-on but this book works really the best if you type the code while you are reading. Using this style, the book gets surprisingly far, starting from the simplest Hello, World type of applications it discusses lists and their relations to data, widgets even the most exotic ones , layouts, including custom layouts and finally animations.

Meanwhile it never gives up its practical approach, e. I really appreciated that bit because I know from my own experience that this detail can be hard to figure out. The author made some decisions that I found a bit strange.

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First and foremost, even though the title is Android User Interface Development, it does not discuss 2D Canvas and co. I am sure that some readers will miss these parts. I am big fan of command-line development environments but maybe Eclipse is better for beginners. All in all, I enjoyed this book and I even learnt from it. The book does not cover all the aspects of Android development but it addresses a very important application type.

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