Android Programming for Beginners: Build in-depth, full-featured Android apps starting from zero programming experience

Android development is something that I have wanted to learn more about recently. I have experience with web development with React, and have dabbled with React Native for mobile. As a result, I began searching for more resources on mobile development, and I found this book. Android Programming for Beginners does two things very well: It goes through the several different topics required to know for creating native Android apps, and it teaches Java while doing so. As someone with a fair amount of previous experience with Java, most of the coding-side of this book was more a refresher for me, but I imagine that this would be very useful for new developers as well.The book goes over some important aspects of Android development in detail, including the Android Lifecycle, Design Patterns, Mutlithreading and Databases in Android. This all is on top of the many different ways that developers can compose UI and manage resources when developing an app. Overall, if you go through this book and work through the samples cover-to-cover, you would gain enough knowledge and experience to develop most of the common types of apps being popularly-used today.I am hoping to start working in the professional mobile app development space moving forward, and this book has been incredibly helpful for me to become comfortable with taking that next step. If you're a new developer, or an experienced one just looking to try something new, this book is worth serious consideration.

I like it because it will help me get started building apps.

I really enjoyed this book. It’s a great way to learn android programming. The book walks you through how to set up Android Studio and how to set up the android emulator so that you can have a testing environment. It also walks you through how to add and manipulate the UI. This book takes you from A to Z and teaches you everything you would need to know to start coding and Android applications so you won’t be left in the dark. This book is great for beginners to cut their teeth on. It visits everything from variables and operators to loops and methods. Later on, you’ll learn about arrays so that you can handle large amounts of data. The Object-Oriented Programming section does a great job of showing you how to encapsulate your classes and variables to prevent them from being access unintentionally. You’ll also be walked through inheritance and Polymorphism and shown how to implement abstract classes and interfaces. Later in the book, you learn how to code necessary to draw on the canvas, save and store data, and much more. You will pretty much learn everything you need in this book to get started with android programming. This is a must-have for anyone looking to get started.

Many Android books targeting beginners assume too much knowledge of Java, and this book addresses that concern from the very beginning. The author teaches all the Java topics a beginner would need in four multi-chapter apps and more than a dozen quick mini-apps!This book will teach you practically everything you need to know to begin your journey as an Android programmer. Here's a shortlist of the topics covered.- Layouts, Fragments- Common Views- Java Fundamentals (OOP, Variables, Operators, Expressions, etc.)- Memory Usage (Stack, Heap, Garbage Collection)- Localization- DatabasesIf you're interested in learning Android development with Java, definitely check this one out!

I would have given 5 stars for the first 11 chapters. Unless you have an older version of Android Studio the rest of the book is obsolete. That is a shame because the beginning is good

In this book the author really goes over the detail needed to understand building an android application. Built for anyone at any skill level the book starts off assuming that the user has no knowledge of the subject and builds up on all the concepts needed from variables to layouts and different Android versions. I highly recommend this book for both beginners and experienced developers!

Android Studio has changed a lot in a few short years. The third edition uses Android Studio 4.1.2, which released in Jan of 2021. Since then the IDE has abandoned version numbers for animal names, with the most current release being Android Studio Hedgehog. Unfortunately the link at the start of the book promising up to date information goes to a 404 page. The content of the book appears well written, but is no longer up to date. Not recommended as a beginner text in its current form.

Pros:⁃If you like to underline the paper is perfect.⁃I like that he explains in a friendly way every single step not just with words but also with images. Also he gives tips and add notes to clarify questions or decisions I had when I was reading.And guide me through the process showing the possible errors, options and results that could appear through the process.⁃The quality of images is ok.⁃I love the Frequently asked questions, because it’s a friendly reminder that you are not alone in this process of learning.⁃He shows ways to improve our productivity, for example many useful keyboard shortcuts. Also he shows best practices, which it’s really important because give you solid bases to do things with quality since the beginning.⁃I like that the book shows me how each step is changing the appearance of the app.⁃I like the diagrams, for example how shows important concepts such as the flow of execution, because it’s self explained.⁃I like the way how introduce the concepts because it’s a learning path where the book guide you the process and you learn the concepts where you need them, not like others books where first learn Java then Android.Cons:⁃I would like a lighter underlining in the code and that the convention of the result in the console were different to the code.⁃A few images could have a better quality.

El libro fue enviado rápidamente y todo normal con el estado del libro en físico, buen vendedor.

Das Buch ist immer bemüht, den Leser Schritt für Schritt mitzunehmen.