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Android 4: New features for Application Development

Android 4: New features for Application Development

By: Murat Aydin;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 24-DEC-2012

Insert Date: 25-DEC-2012

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"Develop Android applications using the new features of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Learn new APIs in Android 4.0 Get familiar with the best practices in developing Android applications Step-by-step approach with clearly explained sample codes In Detail Recently, with the increasing popularity of mobile phones, mobile operating systems have emerged and quickly spread. Now people with smart phones can do everything that they can do with their computers. The popularity of the Android mobile operating system has increased and is widely used. In this book, new features and...

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The Android™ Tablet Developer’s Cookbook

The Android™ Tablet Developer’s Cookbook

By: B.M. Harwani

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 24-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 14-DEC-2012

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The Android Tablet Developer’s Cookbook helps experienced Android developers leverage new Android 4.2.2 features to build compelling applications that take full advantage of tablets’ bigger screens, dual-core processors, and larger, faster memory. Tightly focused on Android 4.2.2’s tablet-related capabilities, it presents an unparalleled library of easy-to-reuse code for solving real-world problems. Everything’s organized in modular, standalone sections to help you quickly find what you’re looking for, even when you need to use multiple classes together. Throughout, B.M. Harwani clearly...

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Sams Teach Yourself Android Game Programming in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Android Game Programming in 24 Hours

By: Jonathan S. Harbour

Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 15-NOV-2012

Insert Date: 24-NOV-2012

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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Android Game Programming in 24 Hours will help you master mobile game development for Android 4. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll gain hands-on expertise with the entire process: from getting access to the hardware via the Android SDK to finishing a complete example game. You’ll learn to use the Android SDK and open source software to design and build fast, highly playable games for the newest Android smartphones and tablets. Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a...

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L'Art du développement Android

L'Art du développement Android

By: Mark Murphy

Publisher: Pearson France

Publication Date: 01-DEC-2009

Insert Date: 23-NOV-2012

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Smartphones, PDA et autres terminaux mobiles connaissent aujourd'hui une véritable explosion. Dans ce contexte, Android, le système d'exploitation mobile créé par Google, présente le double avantage d'être gratuit et open-source. Libre donc à tout un chacun d'en exploiter l'énorme potentiel ! Dans cet ouvrage, Mark L. Murphy, développeur et membre actif de la communauté Android, vous explique tout ce que vous avez besoin de savoir pour programmer des applications - de la création des interfaces graphiques à l'utilisation de GPS, en passant par l'accès aux services web et bien d'autres...

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L'Art du développement Android, 2e édition

L'Art du développement Android, 2e édition

By: Mark Murphy

Publisher: Pearson France

Publication Date: 20-AUG-2010

Insert Date: 22-NOV-2012

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À l'aide d'exemples simples et faciles à exécuter, apprenez à développer des applications pour terminaux Android. Smartphones, PDA et autres terminaux mobiles connaissent aujourd'hui une véritable explosion. Dans ce contexte, Android, le système d'exploitation mobile créé par Google, présente le double avantage d'être gratuit et open-source. Libre donc à tout un chacun d’en exploiter l’énorme potentiel ! Cette seconde édition couvre désormais Android 2. Vous y apprendrez toutes les bases de la programmation sous Android – de la création des interfaces graphiques à l’utilisation de GPS,...

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Beginning Android Games, Second Edition

Beginning Android Games, Second Edition

By: Mario Zechner; Robert Green

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 07-NOV-2012

Insert Date: 19-NOV-2012

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Beginning Android Games, Second Edition offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers, including Android tablet game app development considerations. You'll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and playable game apps that work on Android and earlier version compliant smartphones and now tablets. This will give you everything you need to branch out and write your own Android games. The potential user base and the wide array of available high-performance devices makes...

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Android Apps Entwicklung für Dummies

Android Apps Entwicklung für Dummies

By: Donn Felker

Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag

Publication Date: 13-JUL-2011

Insert Date: 09-NOV-2012

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Den Satz "Wenn es dazu bloß eine App gäbe ..." können Sie von jetzt an aus Ihrem Vokabular streichen! Denn mit diesem Buch lernen Sie, Ihre eigenen Ideen für Android Apps umzusetzen. Programmieren Sie Ihre ganz persönlichen Apps! ...

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Pro Android Web Game Apps: Using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

Pro Android Web Game Apps: Using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

By: Juriy Bura; Paul Coates

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012

Insert Date: 05-NOV-2012

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Dive into game development and create great multiplayer online games with Pro Android Web Game Apps. This hands-on guide covers both the theory and practice of browser game development for the Android platform. You'll use cutting-edge technologies to make game engines in your browser, establish real-time server communication, and create amazing gaming experiences with artificial intelligence and rich media. Bring your knowledge of HTML and JavaScript to the next level with Pro Android Web Game Apps. You are guided through exciting projects that give you firsthand experience with core...

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Applications Android avec Adobe Air: Développez en ActionScript 3.0 pour Android

Applications Android avec Adobe Air: Développez en ActionScript 3.0 pour Android

By: Véronique Brossier

Publisher: Pearson France

Publication Date: 28-OCT-2011

Insert Date: 03-NOV-2012

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Grâce à vos compétences en Actionscript 3, vous pouvez aujourd'hui développer des applications pour les plateformes mobiles. Dans ce guide pratique et très didactique, vous apprendrez à réaliser des applications Adobe AIR à la fois pour Smartphones et tablettes tactiles équipés d'Android. Explorez l'ensemble du processus de développement, depuis la programmation de fonctions spécifiques jusqu'aux options de publication de vos applications sur l'Android Market. Créez une application exemple avec Flash Builder ou Flash Professionnel en suivant les instructions pas à pas, puis apprenez à...

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Pro Android Games, Second Edition

Pro Android Games, Second Edition

By: Vladimir Silva

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 10-OCT-2012

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In the last few years, Android has progressed with the debut of better fonts, new User Interface and Experience (UI/UX) APIs, tablet considerations, multi-touch capabilities, multi-tasking, faster performance, improved battery management techniques, and now Google TV Android Apps for the Android game app developer repertoire. With actionable real-world source, Pro Android Games, Second Edition shows you how to build more sophisticated and addictive Android games, by leveraging the power of these recent advancements found in the new Android Jelly Beans development platform as well as...

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Androidâ„¢ User Interface Design: Turning Ideas and Sketches into Beautifully Designed Apps

Androidâ„¢ User Interface Design: Turning Ideas and Sketches into Beautifully Designed Apps

By: Ian G. Clifton

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 10-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 25-SEP-2012

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Build Android Apps That Are Stunningly Attractive, Functional, and Intuitive In today’s crowded Android marketplace, it’s more important than ever to differentiate your apps. Great design is the best way to do that. Now, leading Android app design expert Ian G. Clifton shows you how to make your apps come alive and how to deliver apps that users will want, love, and buy! Reflecting the Android 4.2 SDK, this book serves both as a tutorial for the entire design and implementation process and as a handy reference you’ll rely on for every Android development project. Clifton shows how to...

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Androidâ„¢ Programming Unleashed

Androidâ„¢ Programming Unleashed

By: B.M. Harwani

Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 18-DEC-2012

Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012

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Android Programming Unleashed is the most comprehensive and technically sophisticated guide to best-practice Android development with today's powerful new versions of Android: 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Offering the exceptional breadth and depth developers have come to expect from the Unleashed series, it covers everything programmers need to know to develop robust, high-performance Android apps that deliver a superior user experience. Leading developer trainer Bintu Harwani begins with basic UI controls, then progresses to more advanced topics, finally covering how to...

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Mobile Anwendungen mit Android

Mobile Anwendungen mit Android

By: Mike Bach

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Verlag

Publication Date: 14-DEC-2011

Insert Date: 15-AUG-2012

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Das Buch ist ein Leitfaden für die Erstellung von Anwendungen für das Betriebssystem Android in der Sprache Java . Sämtliche Aspekte von Android-Geräten werden in einem praxisnahen, durchgängigen Beispiel behandelt. Beginnend mit der Gestaltung der Benutzeroberfläche für verschiedene Auflösungen über die Speicherung von Daten bis zur Ansteuerung von Kamera, Telefonie, Netzwerk und Sensoren werden auch komplexere Themen wie die Synchronisierung von Inhalten und der Zugriff auf bestehende Dienste behandelt. ...

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XDA Developers' Android Hacker's Toolkit

XDA Developers' Android Hacker's Toolkit

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012

Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012

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Make your Android device truly your own Are you eager to make your Android device your own but you're not sure where to start? Then this is the book for you. XDA is the world's most popular resource for Android hacking enthusiasts, and a huge community has grown around customizing Android devices with XDA. XDA's Android Hacker's Toolkit gives you the tools you need to customize your devices by hacking or rooting the android operating system. Providing a solid understanding of the internal workings of the Android operating system, this book walks you through the terminology and...

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Pro Android Augmented Reality

Pro Android Augmented Reality

By: Raghav Sood

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 11-JUL-2012

Insert Date: 07-AUG-2012

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Augmented reality (AR) offers a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment, where the elements and surroundings are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as graphics and GPS data. It makes a game more real. Your social media app puts you where want to be or go. Pro Android Augmented Reality walks you through the foundations of building an augmented reality application. From using various software and Android hardware sensors, such as an accelerometer or a magnetometer (compass), you'll learn the building blocks of augmented reality for both marker-...

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Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for Android

Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for Android

By: Gavin Williams

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012

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HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript are the chisels web designers and developers use to design and build great web sites. But, you can build great Web apps. But, how do you use web-standards based apps that can run on mobile devices like Android smartphones and tablets? Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for Android guides you through learning the essential HTML5 and JavaScript skills needed for the Android platform and browsers. In this book, you get the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills necessary for creating your first Web apps from the ground up for, or that run effectively on Android smartphones,...

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Professional Android 4 Application Development, 3rd Edition

Professional Android 4 Application Development, 3rd Edition

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Publisher: Wrox

Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012

Insert Date: 11-JUL-2012

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Developers, build mobile Android apps using Android 4 The fast-growing popularity of Android smartphones and tablets creates a huge opportunities for developers. If you're an experienced developer, you can start creating robust mobile Android apps right away with this professional guide to Android 4 application development. Written by one of Google's lead Android developer advocates, this practical book walks you through a series of hands-on projects that illustrate the features of the Android SDK. That includes all the new APIs introduced in Android 3 and 4, including building for...

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Decompiling Android

Decompiling Android

By: Godfrey Nolan

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 04-JUL-2012

Insert Date: 10-JUL-2012

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Decompiling Android looks at the the reason why Android apps can be decompiled to recover their source code, what it means to Android developers and how you can protect your code from prying eyes. This is also a good way to see how good and bad Android apps are constructed and how to learn from them in building your own apps. This is becoming an increasingly important topic as the Android marketplace grows and developers are unwittingly releasing the apps with lots of back doors allowing people to potentially obtain credit card information and database logins to back-end systems, as they...

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Jetzt lerne ich Android

Jetzt lerne ich Android

By: Dirk Louis; Peter Müller

Publisher: Markt+Technik Verlag

Publication Date: 21-SEP-2011

Insert Date: 10-JUL-2012

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Android ist derzeit eines der wichtigsten und heißesten Betriebssysteme für Handys bzw. Smartphones und andere mobile Geräte. Und jeder, der über ein wenig Java-Kenntnisse verfügt (siehe dazu auch Schnellkurs im Anhang des Buches), kann eigene Programme für diese Geräte schreiben. Die Apps in diesem Buch zielen vor allem auf Handys ab und führen Sie mit Spaß und Kompetenz Schritt für Schritt in die aufregende Welt der Android-Programmierung ein. Hier finden Sie Downloads zu diesem Titel. ...

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The Art of Speeches and Presentations: The Secrets of Making People Remember What You Say

The Art of Speeches and Presentations: The Secrets of Making People Remember What You Say

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 15-MAY-2012

Insert Date: 07-JUL-2012

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Be memorable. Whether you like it or loathe it, public speaking is something many of us have to do. Be it presentations to colleagues or speeches to a room full of near strangers, we all want to shine...or at least get through it with our dignity intact. Luckily Philip Collins, former Chief Speech Writer to Tony Blair, knows exactly what's needed to give a storming speech. The secret, according to Philip, is content. Too many of us focus on how we're presenting, and don't spend enough time thinking about what we're presenting. The secret to memorable, polished speeches is to think more...