Murat Aydin - Android 4: New Features for Application Development

Murat Aydin is a Senior Software Engineer in a company that develops software technologies for defense systems, and an enthusiastic Android developer. He has several Android applications in Google Play. He is a Sun Certified Java Developer and has eight years of experience in developing web-based applications using Java technologies, desktop, and engineering applications using .NET technologies.

He earned his BSc degree in Computer Engineering from METU (Middle East Technical University) and his MSc degree in Software Engineering from METU.

He is a member of GDG Ankara (Google Developer Group Ankara, www.gdgankara.org). They organize several Android events in GDG Ankara such as Android Developer Days (www.androiddeveloperdays.com).

He is married and lives in Ankara with his wife lk.

You can get in touch with him on Linkedin at >.

I would like to thank my precious wife lk for abiding with me during my long hours of work for this book. A special thanks to my parents and my siblings for supporting me. I would also like to thank Ahmet Ouz Mermerkaya, Murat Yener, Rick Boyer, and Nathan Schwermann for reviewing my book. Finally, I want to thank the team at Packt Publishing for all their help.

Rick Boyer has over twenty years of professional programming experience, including developing applications on Windows, Windows CE, Windows Phone, and Android. With a passion for mobile, he now focuses exclusively on the Android platform with his consulting business, NightSky Development. He also runs the LinkedIn group, Published Android Developers (http://goo.gl/Byilc), where developers discuss issues related to publishing apps to the market.

You can contact him at about.me\RickBoyer.

Ahmet Oguz Mermerkaya is an Electronics Engineer but has always worked as a software developer. He has developed softwares on different platforms using C, C++, Java, UML, and Web (PHP, MySQL). He also has experience in extreme programming techniques and model-driven development. Currently, he is working on Android application development. He is the author of Merhaba Android , a turkish book about Android application development. He is also an active member of the GDG community in Turkey.

Nathan Schwermann is a graduate from the University of Kansas and has been developing applications for Android professionally for over two years. He is a strong supporter of backward compatibility and is very familiar with both Google's support library and its famous extension Actionbar Sherlock. He also reviewed Android 3.0 Animations , Packt Publishing .

You can contact Nathan anytime at <> if you would like to talk about Android, job offers, or arrange a meet up at Google IO or other popular Android events.

Murat Yener completed his BS and MS degree at Istanbul Technical University. He has taken part in several projects still in use at the ITU Informatics Institute. He has worked on Isbank's Core Banking exchange project as a J2EE developer. He has designed and completed several projects still on the market by Muse Systems. He has worked in TAV Airports Information Technologies as a Enterprise Java & Flex developer. He has worked for HSBC as a project leader responsible for business processes and rich client user interfaces. Currently he is employed at Eteration A.S. working on several projects including Eclipse Libra Tools, GWT, and Mobile applications (both on Android and iOS).

He is also leading the Google Technology User Group Istanbul since 2009 and is a regular speaker at conferences such as JavaOne, EclipseCon, EclipseIst, and GDG meetings.

I would like to thank Murat Aydin, who offered me the chance to review his wonderful book. I would also like to thank Naci Dai for being my mentor and providing the best work environment, Daniel Kurka for developing mgwt, the best mobile platform I ever worked on, and Nilay Coskun for all her support.