Learn Java for Android improvement, 3rd Edition, is an replace of a robust promoting booklet that now incorporates a primer on Android app improvement (in bankruptcy 1 and Appendix C, that is disbursed within the book’s code archive). This booklet teaches programmers the fundamental Java language abilities worthwhile for successfully making a choice on up and utilizing the recent Android SDK platform to construct cellular, embedded, or even laptop apps, specially video game apps.

Android improvement is scorching, and lots of programmers have an interest in becoming a member of the joys. notwithstanding, simply because this expertise is predicated on Java, you have to first receive a fantastic snatch of the Java language and its APIs which will enhance your probabilities of succeeding as a good Android app developer. This publication is helping you do that.

Each of the book’s sixteen chapters offers an workout part that provides you the chance to augment your figuring out of the chapter’s fabric. solutions to the book’s greater than seven-hundred routines are supplied in an appendix. A moment appendix presents an important game-oriented Java software, which you could convert into an Android app.

Once you entire this one of a kind booklet written by means of Jeff Friesen, knowledgeable Java developer and JavaWorld.com columnist, you need to be able to commence your indie or expert Android app improvement journey.

What you’ll learn

• The Java talents precious for Android development
• The center Java language fundamentals
• Classes, gadgets, inheritance, polymorphism, and interfaces
• Advanced Java language good points (such as generics)
• The uncomplicated Java APIs worthwhile for Android (such because the String type and threading)
• The Collections Framework for organizing objects
• The Concurrency Utilities for simplifying multithreading
• Classic and New I/O
• Networking and database access
• Parsing, growing, and remodeling XML documents
• Additional APIs for developing and getting access to ZIP and JAR records, and more

Who this e-book is for

This ebook is for any programmer—including current Java programmers and Objective-C dependent iPhone and iPad programmers— of any ability point who must receive a superior realizing of the Java language and foundational Java APIs ahead of leaping into Android app development.