Learning Android Application Development

Build Android applications using modern techniques and libraries to get your own high-quality apps published on Google Play in no timeAbout This Book* Get started with Android development, from the installation of required tools to publishing to the market* Make your applications Android N ready-Android has evolved quite a lot since the very beginning and so has their Software Development Kit-so get up to speed* Save time and improve the quality of your applications with widely used open source libraries and dependency managementWho This Book Is ForThis book is for both beginners and slightly more experienced Android developers.This book will provide the necessary skills to build Android applications for those that are inexperienced in the subject, and will also be useful for slightly more experienced developers by covering more advanced topics.What You Will Learn* Get to know how to use popular open source libraries to reduce time to market and avoid re-inventing the wheel* Automate your application's testing phase to avoid last minute crashes* Use dependency management to properly keep dependencies and updates under control* Efficiently show huge amounts of items in a list* Forget about memory and speed concerns* Publish and monetize your Android applications on Google Play* Persist your application data so it can continue working in offline mode* Do not break the user experience because of a network lossIn DetailWith the huge increase in mobile users and mobile applications in the last years, it is a very attractive, although competitive, market. This book offers a quick way-not only to learn how to build Android Applications-but also to focus on quality and reduce time to market by leveraging widely used and well known libraries. It will enable you to publish your applications on the market in almost no time.This comprehensive guide will get you started with Android development and show you how to publish a high-quality application of your own in the market in no time. Moving on to more advanced topics, you'll get up to date with new components such as RecyclerView, adding automated testing to your application, and how to publish and monetize it.

• | Author: Raimon Rafols
• | Publisher: Packt Publishing
• | Publication Date: Aug 26, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1785286110
• | ISBN-13: 9781785286117