Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours, 2ndRevised edition--------------------------------------------------Android is the world's1 mobile development platform, and with thenew Android 3.0, it's becoming as popular for tablets as it is forsmartphones. If you are a beginner, in just 24 lessons of one houror less, this friendly, full-color book will help you master modernAndroid development. You can build a fully-featured app from scratch,learning all the skills you'll need to create your own. Each lessonbuilds on prior chapters, providing a solid foundation for success.This edition is thoroughly updated for Android's newest features anddevelopment tools, while still supporting the popular Android 2.0.Coverage includes: * Using Eclipse to write apps quickly and efficiently* Understanding the application lifecycle * Building robust, friendlyuser interfaces * Retrieving, storing, and using data * Adding network,social, and location-based features * Supporting the camera and otherhardware * Internationalizing, testing, and publishing appsRevisedand simplified step-by-step instructions with full-color screenshotswalk you through key tasks...updated Q and As, Quizzes, and Exercisestest your knowledge...Did You Know? tips offer insider advice...WatchOut! alerts help you avoid problems. By the time you're finished,you won't just understand core Android concepts: you'll be comfortablewriting, testing, and publishing your own new apps.--------------------------------------------------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, andconsulting services. With more than two decades of experience in professionalsoftware production, Lauren is a recognized authority in enterprisearchitecture and the development of commercial-grade mobile applications.Lauren received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California,Santa Cruz. She spends her copious free time traveling the world withher geeky mobile-minded husband. She is an avid nature photographer,and her work has been published in books and newspapers around theworld. In South Africa, she dove with 4-meter-long great white sharksand got 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 Android, iPhone, BREW, BlackBerry, J2ME, Palm, and Windows Mobile--someof which have been installed on millions of phones worldwide. Shanehas written extensively about the mobile industry and evaluated mobiledevelopment platforms on his tech blogs and is well known within theblogosphere. Shane received a B.S. in Computer Science from the Universityof California. A self-admitted gadget freak, Shane always has thelatest phone, laptop, or other mobile device. He can often be foundfiddling with the latest technologies, such as cloud services and mobileplatforms, and other exciting, state-of-the-art technologies that activatethe creative part of his brain. He also enjoys traveling the worldwith his geeky wife, even if she did make him dive with 4-meter-longgreat white sharks and almost get eaten by a lion in Kenya. He admitsthat he has to take at least two phones and a tablet with him whenbackpacking, even though there is no coverage, that he snickered andwhipped out his Android phone to take a picture when his wife got hertongue stuck to that iceberg in Iceland, and that he is catching onthat he should be writing his own bio. The authors have also publishedan intermediate/advanced book on Android development called AndroidWireless Application Development, Second Edition, part of the Addison-WesleyDeveloper's Library series. Lauren and Shane have also published numerousarticles on mobile software development for magazines, technical journals,and online publishers of educational content. You can find dozens ofsamples of their work in Smart Developer magazine (Linux New Media),Developer.com, Network World, Envato (MobileTuts+ and CodeCanyon),and InformIT, among others. They also publish articles of interestto their readers at their own Android website, http://androidbook.blogspot.com.You can find a full list of the authors' publications at http://goo.gl/f0Vlj.