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Android Essentials is a no–frills, no–nonsense, code–centric run through the guts of application development on Google’s Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work. Covering the entirety of the Android catalog in less than 150 pages is simply impossible. Instead, this book focuses on just four main topics: the application life cycle and OS integration, user interface, location–based services, and networking | Available as a PDF Electronic Book or Print On Demand Android Essentials 116 PAGES Chris Haseman Apress EXPERT S VOICE About firstPress Apress s firstPress series is your source for understanding cutting-edge technology. Short highly focused and written by experts Apress s firstPress books save you time and effort. They contain the information you could get based on intensive research yourself or if you were to attend a conference every other week if only you had the time. They cover the concepts and techniques that will keep you ahead of the technology curve. Apress s firstPress books are real books in your choice of electronic or print-on-demand format with no rough edges even when the technology itself is still rough. You can t afford to be without them. Android Essentials Dear Reader This book covers the essential information required to build an Android application. It will help any developer amateur professional or dabbler who is interested in developing for Android. Over the course of the book I cover the essentials you ll need to get started with your own innovative application. I took on this project because after five years of working in the mobile software industry it has become clear that we need help. With mobile devices becoming more ubiquitous powerful and indeed essential fresh blood is necessary to overcome the stagnation that has plagued our business. As an industry we need to graduate from making cookie-cutter ringtones wallpaper and e-mail applications. I hope once you ve finished this book that you ll be in a position to start that killer mobile product you ve told all your friends you re going to make. In Android Essentials I cover the details of installing and using the Android SDK making and rendering user interface tools harnessing location tracking and Google Maps and putting everything together with a little glue from XML parsers and networking clients. These tools and tricks should be enough to get you past your empty editor the .