Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours--------------------------------------------------Full Color! In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to buildpowerful applications for the world's first complete, open, and freemobile platform: Android. Using this book's straightforward, step-by-stepapproach, you'll build a fully-featured Android application from theground up and master the skills you need to design, develop, test,and publish powerful applications. Each lesson builds on what you'vealready learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-worldsuccess! Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the mostcommon Android development tasks. Quizzes and Exercises at the endof each chapter help you test your knowledge. By the Way notes presentinteresting information related to the discussion. Did You Know? tipsoffer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks. Watch Out! cautionsalert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoidthem. Learn how to! * Develop Android applications quickly and successfullywith Java * Master Google's Android SDK and development tools * Leveragethe Eclipse programming environment to develop Android projects * Understandthe Android application lifecycle * Build effective, user-friendlyuser interfaces * Retrieve, store, and work with application data *Develop powerful network applications * Add popular social featuresand location-based services to your applications * Take advantage ofAndroid device hardware like the camera * Internationalize, test, andpublish your Android applications--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Lauren Darcey is responsible for the technical leadershipand direction of a small software company specializing in mobile technologies,including Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pre, BREW, and J2ME. Withmore than two decades of experience in professional software production,Lauren is a recognized authority in enterprise architecture and thedevelopment of commercial-grade mobile applications. Lauren receiveda B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, SantaCruz. She spends her copious free time traveling the world withher geeky mobile-minded husband and is an avid nature photographer.Her work has been published in books and newspapers around the world.In South Africa, she dove with 4-meter-long great white sharks andgot stuck between a herd of rampaging hippopotami and an irritatedbull elephant. She's been attacked by monkeys in Japan, gotten stuckin a ravine with two hungry lions in Kenya, gotten thirsty in Egypt,narrowly avoided a coup d'etat in Thailand, geocached her way throughthe Swiss Alps, drank her way through the beer halls of Germany, sleptin the crumbling castles of Europe, and gotten her tongue stuck toan iceberg in Iceland (while being watched by a herd of suspiciouswild reindeer). Shane Conder has extensive development experienceand has focused his attention on mobile and embedded development forthe past decade. He has designed and developed many commercial applicationsfor BREW, J2ME, Palm, Windows Mobile, and Android--some of which havebeen installed on millions of phones worldwide. Shane has written extensivelyabout the mobile industry and evaluated mobile development platformson his tech blogs and is well known within the blogosphere. Shane receiveda B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California. Aself-admitted gadget freak, Shane always has the latest phone or laptop.He can often be found fiddling with the latest technologies, such asAmazon Web Services, Android, iPhone, Google App Engine, and otherexciting, state-of-the-art technologies that activate the creativepart of his brain. He also enjoys traveling the world with his geekywife, even if she did make him dive with 4-meter-long great white sharksand almost get eaten by a lion in Kenya. He admits that it was hisfault they got attacked by monkeys in Japan, that he snickered andwhipped out his Android phone to take a picture when Laurie got hertongue stuck to that iceberg in Iceland, and that he still hasn't learnedhis lesson about writing his own bio. Other Publications by theAuthors The authors have also published Android Wireless ApplicationDevelopment, part of the Addison-Wesley Developer's Library series,as well as numerous online technical articles for http://developer.com,http://informIT.com and their own Android blog, http://androidbook.blogspot.com.