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Write and run code every step of the way creating apps that catalog crime scenes, browse photos, track your jogging route, and more. Each chapter and app has been designed and tested to provide the knowledge and experience you need to get started in Android development.
Big Nerd Ranch provided the training we needed to get hundreds of engineers building skillfully on Android. This book is a great distillation of that training and will be a huge help to anyone looking to ramp up as well. Mike Shaver, Director of Mobile Engineering, Facebook
a must-have for the developer just starting in Android or ready for more advanced techniques. I was impressed with this books content and clarity of presentation. The authors explain simple and complex Android topics with equal ease. James Steele, author of The Android Developers Cookbook
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First Edition, first printing, March 2013
Release K.1.1.1
| For Donovan. May he live a life filled with activities and know when to use fragments. |
| B.H. |
We feel a bit sheepish having our names on the cover of this book. The truth is that without an army of collaborators, this book could never have happened. We owe them all a debt of gratitude.
Chris Stewart and Owen Matthews contributed great foundational content for several chapters.
Our co-instructors, Chris Stewart and Christopher Moore. We thank them for their patience in teaching work-in-progress material, their suggestions and corrections for that material, and their consultation when we were considering sweeping changes.
Our coworkers Bolot Kerimbaev and Andrew Lunsford. Their feedback was instrumental in our decision to highlight the use of fragments.
Our technical reviewers, Frank Robles, Jim Steele, Laura Cassell, Mark Dalrymple, and Magnus Dahl, helped us find and fix flaws.
Thanks to Aaron Hillegass. Aarons faith in people is one of the great and terrifying forces of nature. Without it, we would never have had the opportunity to write this book, nor would we ever have completed it. (He also gave us money, which was very friendly of him.)
Our editor, Susan Loper, has an amazing ability to turn our programmery ramblings and bad jokes into thoughtful, concise prose. And better jokes. Without her help, this would not have been a fun book to read. She taught us everything we know about clear and approachable technical writing.
Thanks to NASA. Our little book seems small and silly in comparison to exploring the solar system.
Ellie Volckhausen, who designed the cover.
Chris Loper at IntelligentEnglish.com, who designed and produced the print book and the EPUB and Kindle versions. His DocBook toolchain made life much easier, too.
The folks at Facebook, who gave us so much fantastic feedback on the course.
Finally, thanks to our students. We wish that we had room to thank every single student who gave us a correction or opinion on the book as it was shaping up. It is your curiosity we have worked to satisfy, your confusions we have worked to clarify. Thank you.
As beginning Android programmer, you face a steep learning curve. Learning Android is like learning to live in a foreign city. Even if you speak the language, it will not feel like home at first. Everyone around you seems to understand things that you are missing. Things you already knew turn out to be dead wrong in this new context.
Android has a culture. That culture speaks Java, but knowing Java is not enough. Getting your head around Android requires learning many new ideas and techniques. It helps to have a guide through unfamiliar territory.
Thats where we come in. At Big Nerd Ranch, we believe that to be an Android programmer, you must:
write Android applications
understand what you are writing
This guide will help you do both. We have trained hundreds of professional Android programmers using it. We lead you through writing several Android applications, introducing concepts and techniques as needed. When there are rough spots, when some things are tricky or obscure, you will face it head on, and we will do our best to explain why things are they way they are.
This approach allows you to put what you have learned into practice in a working app right away rather than learning a lot of theory and then having to figure out how to apply it all later.
You come away with the experience and understanding you need to get going as an Android developer.
To use this book, you need to be familiar with Java, including classes and objects, interfaces, listeners, packages, inner classes, anonymous inner classes, and generic classes.
If these ideas do not ring a bell, you will be in the weeds by page 2. Start instead with an introductory Java book and return to this book afterward. There are many excellent introductory books available, so you can choose one based on your programming experience and learning style.
If you are comfortable with object-oriented programming concepts, but your Java is a little rusty, you will probably be okay. We will provide some brief reminders about Java specifics (like interfaces and anonymous inner classes). Keep a Java reference handy in case you need more support as you go through the book.
This book is based on our five-day class at Big Nerd Ranch. As such, it is meant to be worked through from the beginning. Chapters build on each other and skipping around is unproductive. So this book is not a reference book. Its goal is to get you over the initial hump to where you can get the most out of the reference and recipe books available.
In our classes, students work through these materials, but they also benefit from the right environment a dedicated classroom, good food and comfortable board, a group of motivated peers, and an instructor to answer questions.
As a reader, you want your environment to be similar. That means getting a good nights rest and finding a quiet place to work. These things can help, too:
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