ISBN : Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours) 
Author By: Shane Conder
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Description : Full Color! In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful applications for the world’s first complete, open, and free mobile platform: Android. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll build a fully-featured Android application from the ground up and master the skills you need to design, develop, test, and publish powerful applications. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success! Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Android development tasks. Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge. By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion. Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks. Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them. Learn how to… Develop Android applications quickly and successfully with Java Master Google’s Android SDK and development tools Leverage the Eclipse programming environment to develop Android projects Understand the Android application lifecycle Build effective, user-friendly user interfaces Retrieve, store, and work with application data Develop powerful network applications Add popular social features and location-based services to your applications Take advantage of Android device hardware like the camera Internationalize, test, and publish your Android applications
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours)
Best Android Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders
ISBN : 9781449388218Best Android Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders 
Author By: Mike Hendrickson
This Price : £10.85
Description : With so many Android apps available, it's been difficult to find the best of the bunch -- until now. Best Android Apps leads you beyond the titles in Android Market's 'Top Paid' and 'Top Free' bins to showcase apps that will truly delight, empower, and entertain you.
Monday 7 March 2011
Android 2 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
ISBN : Professional Android 2 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) 
Author By: Reto Meier
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Description : Build unique mobile applications with the latest Android SDKWritten by an Android authority, this up-to-date resource shows you how to leverage the features of Android 2 to enhance existing products or create innovative new ones. Serving as a hands-on guide to building mobile apps using Android, the book walks you through a series of sample projects that introduces you to Android's new features and techniques. Using the explanations and examples included in these pages, you'll acquire the foundation needed to write compelling mobile applications that use Android, along with the flexibility to quickly adapt to future enhancements.Professional Android 2 Application Development:Reviews Android as a development platform and¿best practices for mobile developmentProvides an in-depth look at the Android application componentsDetails creating layouts and Views to produce compelling resolution independent user interfacesExamines Intents and Content Providers for sharing dataIntroduces techniques for creating map-based applications and using location-based services such as GPSLooks at how to create and use background Services, Notifications, and AlarmsDemonstrates how to create interactive homescreen componentsExplores the Bluetooth, telephony, and networking APIsExamines using hardware, including the camera and sensors such as the compass and accelerometersWrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.wrox.com Programmer ForumsJoin our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world.Code DownloadsTake advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use.Read MoreFind articles, ebooks, sample chapters and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Sunday 6 March 2011
Android 2 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
ISBN : 9780470565520Professional Android 2 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) 
Author By: Reto Meier
This Price : £16.89
Description : Update to the bestseller now features the latest release of the Android platform Android is a powerful, flexible, open source platform for mobile devices and its popularity is growing at an unprecedented pace.
Saturday 5 March 2011
Android Fully Loaded
ISBN : 9780470930021Android Fully Loaded 
Author By: Rob Huddleston
This Price : £8.50
Description : Get all the amazing power your Android smartphone has to offer! The Motorola Droid has quickly become the fastest-selling smartphone, giving the iPhone a run for its money. This little book is packed with big tips for getting more into, and out of, an Andropid OS phone than ever thought possible.
Beginning Android
ISBN : Beginning Android 
Author By: Mark Murphy
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Description : Learn how to develop applications for Android mobile devices using simple examples, ready to run with your copy of the SDK. Author and Android columnist, writer, developer, and community advocate Mark L Murphy shows you what you need to know to get started on programming Android applications-everything from crafting GUIs to using GPS, accessing web services, and more!The Android development platform, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, is a platform in its truest sense, encompassing hundreds of classes beyond the traditional Java classes and open source components that ship with the SDK. Some Android books race through the material, trying to cover as much ground as possible in as few pages as possible. Experienced writer and community advocate Mark Murphy shows you how to develop Android applications simply and with care.The book includes dozens of sample projects, ready to run with your copy of the SDK-not just one huge project where you have difficulty finding the specific examples of the technique you are looking for..What you'll learnDiscover what Android is and how to use Android to build Java-based mobile applications for Google Phones G1 and more phones as they hit the marketWork with the new Android 1.x SDKCreate user interfaces using both the Android Widget framework and the built-in WebKit-powered web browser componentsUse scripting with BeanShellWork with menu inflation, fonts, SDK tools, rotation events, and more Work with TabActivity, MyLocationOverlay, DDMS, and moreUtilize the distinctive capabilities of the Android engine including maps, Internet access, integrated search, media playback, and moreUse and create similar sample Android applications for services, content providers, mapping, and location-based services/eventsWho is this book for?This book is aimed at people new to mobile development, perhaps even to Java itself.About the Apress Beginning SeriesThe Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry-level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from "novice to professional." You'll start your journey by seeing what you need to know-but without needless theory and filler. You'll build your skill set by learning how to put together real-world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there-it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!
Friday 4 March 2011
Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK
Author By: Rick Rogers
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Description : Based on the Linux operating system and developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, Android has the potential to unite a fragmented mobile market. This title presents the concepts and code you need to develop software with Android, the open-source platform for cell phones and mobile devices.