Godfrey Nolan - Android Best Practices

Android Best Practices

Godfrey Nolan

Onur Cinar

David Truxall

Android Best Practices

Copyright 2014 by Godfrey Nolan, Onur Cinar, and David Truxall

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About the Authors

Godfrey Nolan is president of RIIS LLC, where he specializes in web site optimization. He has written numerous articles for magazines and newspapers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Nolan has had a healthy obsession with reverse-engineering bytecode since he wrote Decompile Once, Run Anywhere, which first appeared in Web Techniques in September 1997.

Onur Cinar is the author of Android Apps with Eclipse and Pro Android C++ with the NDK, both from Apress. He has over 17 years of experience in design, development, and management of large-scale complex software projects, primarily in mobile and telecommunication space. His expertise spans VoIP, video communication, mobile applications, grid computing, and networking technologies on diverse platforms. He has been actively working with the Android platform since its beginning. He has a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. He is currently working at the Skype division of Microsoft as the Principal Development Manager for the Skype and Lync clients on the Android platform.

David Truxall A long-time resident of metro Detroit, Dr. Truxall has programmed for a living since 1995, working with enterprise web technologies, modeling business processes, and building public web sites for some of the largest companies in Michigan. Always an enthusiast for troubleshooting systems, David has rescued numerous troubled applications and improved their performance. He speaks at local conferences and user groups. Currently David is working as a mobile architect, bringing mobile apps and their supporting systems to the enterprise.

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