Murat Yener - Expert Android Programming

Expert Android Studio

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To Nilay, Burak, Semra, and Mustafa Yener, for all your support and the time I needed to write this book.

Murat

To Canan and my entire family: Aysel, Ismail, Ugur, Umut, Aysun, and Murat.

Onur

MURAT YENER is a code geek, open source committer, Java Champion, and Google Developer Expert on Android, who is working at Intel as an Android developer. He is the author of Professional Java EE Design Patterns (Wrox, 2015). He has extensive experience with developing Android, Java, web, Java EE, and OSGi applications, in addition to teaching courses and mentoring. Murat is an Eclipse committer and one of the initial committers of the Eclipse Libra project.

Murat has been a user group leader at GDG Istanbul since 2009, organizing, participating, and speaking at events. He is also a regular speaker at major conferences such as DroidCon, JavaOne, and Devoxx.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/muratyener

Twitter: @yenerm

Blog: www.devchronicles.com

ONUR DUNDAR started his professional career in software engineering at Intel Corporation as a Software Application Engineer working on mobile platforms, tablets, and phones with MeeGo and Android, and later on IoT platforms such as IPTV, Intel's Galileo, and Edison. He is the author of Home Automation with Intel Galileo (Packt Publishing, 2015). Onur presents training sessions on Android application development, so he was keen to author this book.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/odundar

Twitter: @odunculuk

Amazon author page: www.amazon.com/Onur-Dundar/e/B00V0VOIGA

XAVIER HALLADE is Application Engineer at Intel Software and Services Group in France. He's been working on a wide range of Android frameworks, libraries, and applications. Xavier is a Google Developer Expert in Android, with a focus on the Android NDK, and actively contributes in the Android community, writing articles, helping developers on Stack Overflow, and giving talks around the word.

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I WANT TO THANK MY COAUTHOR, ONUR DUNDAR, for all his hard work and for his efforts to keep me on schedule. Without him, this book wouldn't be half as good.

I am grateful to my team and colleagues, in particular John Wei and Sunil Tiptur Nataraj, who gave me the time and flexibility to work on this book, and Angus Yeung for his support. My thanks also go to my Google Developer Relations contacts, Uttam Tripathi, Martin Omander, Baris Yesugey, and others who supported me in all ways possible. I want to thank Alex Theedom for covering for me on my Java EErelated responsibilities while I was deeply buried in Android. No words are enough to thank Jim Minatel and Tom Dinse, who patiently worked on all the details while keeping most of the stresses away from us. And thanks, of course, to everyone at Wrox/Wiley who got this book on the shelves.

I must thank three important people who are responsible for who I am in my professional life.