He has been in San Francisco since May 2015, working as a part of the Android Development Team at Yelp.
Antonio has collaborated with Packt Publishing as both author and reviewer several times. If you want to learn more advanced techniques on testing and security for Android, check out his book Testing and Securing Android Studio Applications . If you are new to Android development, check out these other books he has reviewed for Packt Publishing: Android Studio Application Development and Android Studio Essentials (first and second edition). If you would like to develop games for Android, check out Mastering Android Game Development .
For more information about him, visit his personal website (http://www.ninirola.es). Feel free to reach out on Twitter to @hdezninirola
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Preface
Mobile applications have had a huge increase in popularity in the last few years and interest is still growing among users. Mobile operating systems are available not only for smart phones, but tablets as well, therefore increasing the possible market share for these applications.
Android has characteristics that make it pleasant for developers such as open source and having a high level of community, driven development. Android has always been in competition with iOS (the Apple mobile system) in everything and with XCode, iOS presented itself as a more centralized development environment. The new Android Studio IDE makes this centralization finally available for Android developers and makes this tool indispensable for a good Android developer.
This book about Android Studio shows users how to develop and build Android applications with this new IDE. It is not only a getting started book, but also a guide for advanced developers on building their applications faster and more productively. This book will follow a tutorial approach from the basic features to the steps to build for release, including practical examples.
What this book covers
, Installing and Configuring Android Studio , describes the installation and basic configuration of Android Studio.
, Starting a Project , shows how to create a new project and the type of activities we can select.
, Navigating a Project , explores the basic structure of a project in Android Studio.
, Using the Code Editor , exposes the basic features of the code editor in order to get the best out of it.
, Creating User Interfaces , focuses on the creation of user interfaces, using both the graphical view and the text-based view.
, Tools , exposes some additional tools, such as the Android SDK tools, Javadoc, and the version control integration.
, Google Play Services , introduces the current existing Google Play Services and how to integrate them into a project in Android Studio.