Beginning Android Development: Create Your Own Android Apps Today

I love this book. The Print is large so you can read through it and take notes with the ample space this book provides. If you are just starting app development in Android this gives you the basic's like different screen sizes ie... smart-phone, tablet, laptop, with different resolution with code snippets that shows you how the code should look like and understand. Displaying pictures, menu's etc.. Keeping Data Presistent, content providers, SMS, and E-mail messaging, Network,Developing Android Services, Publishing Android Services, Understanding the Android User Interface. This book will get you the basic developing so you can go to the Android Professional Developing Applications books. I like that he includes Pictures of menu's with written code underneath to you can see what the code looks like and shows you the output that code produces.I wish that all Developing books would in COLOR!!!I wished that the book could have Mobil, smartphones devises that code building APP that shows you a conceptThis book does not give you a understanding of Java keywords, methods, Loops, SQL- Database etc... this shows you the basics of Java code to the above topics .He tries to just the get you the basics that way you can understand Java role in devices.

The content of this book isn't bad, but two main gripes:1) Too many spelling errors. Really, have an editor look at this before you publish it. Just two examples:- "let's" rather than "lets," for example "The AVD Manager let's you create and manage different virtual devices for you."- "it's" rather than "its," for example ...by specifying it's hardware and software configurations."Etc.---and that's just in the first 15 pages or so.2) A good number of screenshots are missing, both from the ebook and the printed version (I have both). For example, there are captions for figures 6.4 through 6.7, but no actual screenshots. Same with 12.12 through 12.14. Etc.

I bought this book about the same time Android Studio became the official Android programming platform. This book uses Eclipse as the IDE. I thought this book would have a lot more information as it is large but the type face is large and there is not a lot of printing on each page. This book could be smaller than it is.As this book uses Eclipse IDE and Android Studio became the official IDE I have used this book very little and wish I had not bought it.

The content of the book is great, but it could really use an editor's touch for polishing. I found myself stumbling over sentences that conveyed the proper meaning, but in language that was clumsy and forced me to slow down and digest what was being said.My review would have been five stars had the writing been more polished.

This book is written for the old SDK/ADT bundle and Eclipse IDE. The new and supported IDE is now Android Studio. This makes it more difficult to follow the screen shots in the book as the new IDE has a revamped format and the process steps have changed. In addition, the book is written for Android 4.4 - KitKat or API level 19; 5.0 - Lollipop or level 21 is the highest at this time (Jan. 2015). For novices like me, I would prefer a book that follows the Android Studio IDE.

An excellent beginners book. It's gotten me familiar with the terminology and design philosophy. As a new Android developer it was important to understand the ins and outs of the framework and how all the parts work together. This book was very helpful in explaining the hows and why of the various parts. For more experienced users, this might be a little too detailed in the basics, but the topics covered have something for everyone

As a beginner in Android programming, I think this book is great! I'm only about 20% through it, but have learned so much to this point.

Some really strange editorial issues in the first few pages make you wonder if the publisher read it.

There are better books out there covering the same ground. I was particularly frustrated by the lack of an index.

Initial set-up of software as per early chapters did not go well so lost interest. Maybe later chapters are great but need to make sure you can get there!

easy to read, great context!

The content is OK as an introduction but many concepts are explained in a very similar way (giving the reader the impression that the author copied, pasted and modified the text from one part of the book to the next) - the same can be said about the source code of the examples.Some important concepts are left out, and the source code cannot be downloaded from the web, or copied from the Kindle version text, so you will need to type the examples that you want to play with - this is why I have removed a second star.The book still refers to Eclipse instead of the new Android Studio, but this is less important from my point of view.

Per chi come me è appassionato di programmazione e vuole iniziare dal tipico "hello world", questo è il libro perfetto. Stampa a font grande, di facile lettura, con esempi step-by-step che ti aiutano a configurare e sviluppare app per android.Il libro è in inglese e bisogna sapere bene la lingua. Anche le basi di Java sono importanti, poichè il libro si rivolge a progammatori.Consigliatissimo. Economico, e tempi di consegna perfetti.