num_pages: 228
description: Android is a new software toolkit for mobile phones created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. In a few years it's expected to be found inside millions of cell phones and other mobile devices making Android a major platform for application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices. Getting started developing with Android is easy. You don't even need access to an Android phone just a computer where you can install the Android SDK and the phone emulator that comes with it. Within minutes Hello Android will get you creating your first working Android's version of Hello World. From there you'll build up a more substantial an Android Sudoku game. By gradually adding features to the game throughout the course of the book you'll learn about many aspects of Android programming including user interfaces multimedia and the Android life cycle. If you're a busy developer who'd rather be coding than reading about coding this book is for you. To help you find what you need to know fast each chapter ends with Fast forward section. These sections provide guidance for where you should go next when you need to read the book out of order.
language: English
title: Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform
publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf