Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform
Ed Burnette · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2009
is a new software toolkit for mobile phones, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. In a few years, it's expected to be found inside millions of cell phones and other mobile devices, making a major platform for application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices. Getting started developing with is easy. You don't even need access to an phone, just a computer where you can install the SDK and the phone emulator that comes with it. Within minutes, Hello, Android will get you creating your first working application: Android's version of Hello, World. From there, you'll build up a more substantial example: an Sudoku game. By gradually adding features to the game throughout the course of the book, you'll learn about many aspects of programming including user interfaces, multimedia, and the life cycle. If you're a busy developer who'd rather be coding than reading about coding, this book is for you. To help you find what you need to know fast, each chapter ends with Fast forward section. These sections provide guidance for where you should go next when you need to read the book out of order.