Cohen Ryan - GUI Design for Android Apps

GUI Design for Android Apps

Ryan Cohen, Lead Project Editor
Tao Wang, Lead Contributing Author

GUI Design for Android Apps

Ryan Cohen & Tao Wang

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Contents at a Glance

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About the Lead Project Editor

Ryan Cohen is the contributing editor responsible for leading the international team of content contributors who created this Intel learning resource; hes also an Android enthusiast and Portland State graduate. Ryan has been following Android since 2011 when he made the switch from Apple iOS. When he is not writing about Android, he spends his time researching anything and everything new in the world of Android.

About the Lead Contributing Author

Tao Wang came to United States as a Ph.D. student to study at Oregon State University in 1993. He has been a software engineer with Intel Corporation since 2002. Tao began blogging and writing about Android in 2008; and, since 2011, he has served as a technical collateral manager for the Intel Android Developer Zone, the developer resource for all things Android at Intel. In his spare time, Tao also runs his own mobile app/client education startup called E-k12. He follows closely the latest progress in application development, as well as testing/debugging/performance optimization for mobile devices and Android on x86 platforms. Tao is skilled in many platforms, including Android SDK and NDK; Intel Android tools; game engines such as Cocos2D-x, AndEngine, and libgdx; OpenGL ES; RenderScript; and Android Runtime. His other areas of interest include mobile Internet technologies such as online content management, cloud-based mobile technologies, embedded devices, robotics, and mobile learning on the go.