For the company I work for I was tasked to write an Android application. I had no mobile experience at all and since we use C# we went with Xamarin to build the app. I did the typical "look on the Internet" for training videos and articles to learn what I needed to learn. Within a handful months, version 1.0 of the app was done and published.
I don't typically like to go out and get books since doing so can drag on and on and you spend a lot of extra time getting "up to speed". But, I knew I blew through a bunch of stuff getting the app ready and there was more to learn. I then began to look at various Android development books to go back and pick up on stuff I didn't fully grasp. With knowing what I learned on my own and looking at this book's list of chapters and the details of the chapters "out there in the open" in the table of contents (which makes referencing easy when going back to find something), it appeared this book was well laid out and hit the most important topics. Plus, reading through some of the topics in the book I had learned on my own, I liked the way things were explained.
I'm only about half-way through but here's what I like about the book: 1) Simple and to the point 2) Not the typical page after page of text. I'm visual when learning. There are lots of diagrams and charts and such. 3) The "dumb questions" sections which actually tend to reflect the "dumb questions" I have when I reach those sections. 4) Chapter summaries which pretty much hit everything covered in the chapter. 5) Space to write your own notes (the notes they include also are pretty spot on) 6) Examples (and I mean good examples) that refer you back to earlier examples in the book, but spell it out again for you right there instead of saying "please go back and re-learn this part". This may add a few pages to the book but when you are learning, having to switch back and forth and fit the pieces together seems to break up the learning process. This books basically says "here is what we did back in chapter X and here it is again".
I am very pleased with this book so far. It may not cover all the intricate details in depth of Android development, but I highly recommend it if you are new to it. Plus, adding EVERYTHING to a "welcome to Android" book would just make the learning process hard. This book seems to cover a vast majority of what we need to know to get things done. It has some sections in the end to give an intro to some more technical details plus a list of things not covered in the book to give clues on what else is out there, with links to get you started. It would seem this book gives a very good foundation to build from.
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Eric
Very Good Intro/Intermediate/"Touch of Advanced" Book if You are Starting Out With Android Development
2016年3月16日 -
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ieee488
I would say that *for me* this one fits the best. I have completed Chapter 6
2015年10月12日 -
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E_Rock
Great book so far for beginners
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David C.
Flows nicely, kindle reader screws up the pages with unfortunate page breaks.
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