A hands-on introduction to the latest release of the Android OS and the easiest Android tools for developers As the dominant mobile platform today, the Android OS is a powerful and flexible platform for mobile device. The new Android 7 release (New York Cheesecake) boasts significant new features and enhancements for both smartphone and tablet applications. This step-by-step resource takes a hands-on approach to teaching you how to create Android applications for the latest OS and the newest devices, including both smartphones and tablets. <ul>
<li>Shows you how to install, get started with, and use Android Studio 2 - the simplest Android developer tool ever for beginners</li> <li>Addresses how to display notifications, create rich user interfaces, and use activities and intents</li> <li>Reviews mastering views and menus and managing data</li> <li>Discusses working with SMS </li> <li>Looks at packaging and publishing applications to the Android market</li> </ul>
Beginning Android Programming with Android Studio starts with the basics and goes on to provide you with everything you need to know to begin to successfully develop your own Android applications.

Beginning Android Programming with Android Studio (Wrox Beginning Guides)

Computers & Technology

DiMarzio, Jerome

Programming

Wrox

A hands-on introduction to the latest release of the Android OS and the easiest Android tools for developers As the dominant mobile platform today, the Android OS is a powerful and flexible platform for mobile device. The new Android 7 release (New York Cheesecake) boasts significant new features and enhancements for both smartphone and tablet applications. This step-by-step resource takes a hands-on approach to teaching you how to create Android applications for the latest OS and the newest devices, including both smartphones and tablets. <ul> <li>Shows you how to install, get started with, and use Android Studio 2 - the simplest Android developer tool ever for beginners</li> <li>Addresses how to display notifications, create rich user interfaces, and use activities and intents</li> <li>Reviews mastering views and menus and managing data</li> <li>Discusses working with SMS&nbsp;</li> <li>Looks at packaging and publishing applications to the Android market</li> </ul> Beginning Android Programming with Android Studio&nbsp;starts with the basics and goes on to provide you with everything you need to know to begin to successfully develop your own Android applications.

Beginning Android Programming with Android Studio

Wrox Press

Become smartphone savvy with Dummies 
Android Smartphones For Dummies is the all-new guide to Android phones with the familiar Dummies charm everyone loves. This book will give Android rookies a crash-course in how to use these popular phones. You’ll go beyond the basics of texting and taking photos―we’ll walk you through all the pro tips and tricks for customizing your phone, optimizing all your settings, using social media (safely), and making the most of apps and widgets. We’ll even teach you how to make calls, because phones can still do that. Set up and customize your new Android phone Take stunning pictures, video, and even selfies Find the best apps to make your life easier and more fun Keep your data secure and private while you browse the internet 
New and inexperienced Android users will love the helpful, step-by-step guidance and friendly advice in Android Smartphones For Dummies.

Android Smartphones For Dummies

Networking & Cloud Computing

For Dummies

Practical Android 4 Games Development continues your journey to becoming a hands-on Android game apps developer. This title guides you through the process of designing and developing game apps that work on both smartphones and tablets, thanks to the new Android SDK 4.0 which merges the User Interface and Experience APIs and more. The author, J.F. DiMarzio, has written eight books, including Android: A Programmer's Guide the first Android book approved by Google recently updated and translated for sale in Japan. He has an easy-to-read, concise, and logical writing style that is well suited for teaching complex technologies like the Java-based Android. From 2D-based casual games to 3D OpenGL-based first-person shooters, you find that learning how to create games on the fastest growing mobile platform has never been easier. Create 2D and 3D games for Android 4.0 phones and tablets such and the Motorola Xoom Build your own reusable "black box" for game development Easy-to-follow examples make creating the sample games a hands-on experience What you'll learn How to design and develop compelling 2D and 3D games How to create rich environments and characters How to do collision detection How to add realism to your games with basic game physics How to create a gaming "black box" that can be reused How to play your games on Android phones and tablets Who this book is for This book is for aspiring Android game app developers who are ready to move beyond beginning level books or tutorials on Android game building. Table of Contents Welcome to Andriod Gaming Star Fighter: A 2-D shooter Press Start: Making a Menu Drawing the Environment Creating Your Character Adding the Enemies Adding Basic Enemy Artifical Intelligence Defend yourself! Publishing Your Game BlobHunter: Creating 3-D Games Create an Immersive Environment Navigating the 3-D Environment

Practical Android 4 Games Development

Computer Science

Apress

Apress, the leading Android books publisher, continues to provide you with very hands-on, practical books for teaching and showing app developers how to build and design apps, including game apps, that can be built and deployed in the various Android app stores out there. Android Arcade Game App: A Real World Project - Case Study Approach is no different in that it walks you through creating an arcade style Prison Break game app top to bottom for an Android smartphone or tablet. This book teaches you the unique characteristics and challenges of creating an Arcade style game And it provides you with the full source code for this sample game app. After working through this book, you can re-use its Prison Break app as your very own personal template, then customize for your specific variables, design and build your own Android game app - top to bottom. Then, deploy in one or more of the available Android app stores. Have fun and get coding. What you'll learn How to use Android and OpenGL ES to create a fully functional Arcade game called Prison Break. How to render graphics to the screen on all Android Ice Cream Sandwich devices including tablets How to incorporate music into your game using OpenGL How to upload and distribute your game using the Android Marketplace Who this book is for This book is for Android app developers with at least some experience, preferably with Android game apps. Table of Contents Introduction to Android Gaming What Is an Arcade Game - Creating a Menu Drawing the Background Creating the Player Character and Obstacles Collision Detection Keeping Score Adding More Levels

Android Arcade Game App: A Real World Project - Case Study Approach

Android game apps are typically the most popular type of Android apps in the various Google Play, Amazon Appstore and other Android app stores. So, beyond the Android game tutorials out there, what about a day-to-day handy and complete code reference for Android game developers? 
Android Game Recipes is your first, reliable game coding reference for today's Android game apps. This book provides easy to follow real world game code problems and solutions, including source code. 
This book covers code recipe solutions that are common to 2D game development problems such as designing a game menu, collision detection, moving characters, moving backgrounds and more. This book also includes how to work with player input, how to add multiple levels, how to create game graphics for different screen resolution, and how to work with device sensors. 
After reading and using this book, you'll have the templated code snippets, solutions and frameworks to apply to your game app design to build your game, customize it, and then sell it on the Android app stores.

Android Game Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Games & Strategy Guides

This short book walks you through the process of creating mobile games using the new Android Studio IDE. Android Studio Game Development introduces you to the key tools in Android Studio and gives you the knowledge you need to develop games in Android Studio.
This book takes you from installing Android Studio, through exploring the IDE to creating a new project and setting up GitHub as a VCS. You'll then be well equipped to tackle the game-development topics that make up the rest of the book. You'll learn about OpenGL ES and how to deal with polygons, before mastering image loading and sprite sheets.
The final three chapters cover topics vital to successful game development: interactivity. You'll gain skills in reading user input, responding to that input with in-game movement, and detecting collisions.
You'll learn:
<ul>
<li>How to create projects in Android Studio</li> <li>How to use the SDK manager to keep your Android SDK current </li>
<li>How to commit to and get projects from GitHub</li> <li>How to use OpenGL ES to load images</li> <li>How to react to player input</li> <li>How to debug your games using Android Studio</li> </ul>
Audience This book is for those who may be new to game development who have some experience with Android Studio IDE and Android. To learn about Android Studio, check out Learn Android Studio IDE by Gerber and Craig (Apress).

Android Studio Game Development: Concepts and Design

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