The start-to-finish guide to Android development-from concept to market! Android Wireless Application Development combines all the reliable information, sample code, and best practices you need to build, distribute, and market successful Android mobile applications. Drawing on their extensive experience with mobile and wireless development, Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey cover everything you need to execute a successful Android project: from concept...

This book describes Android security architecture, including the implementation of major security-related components and subsystems, like Binder IPC, permissions, cryptographic providers, and device administration. Coverage includes: how Android permissions are declared, used, and enforced; how Android manages application packages and employs code signing to verify their authenticity; how Android implements the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA)...

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If you own or are considering a new Android smartphone, My Android Phone is your must-have companion. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Android 5 (Lollipop) phone working just the way you want. Learn how to: • Master Android 5's new tools, improved interface, and best shortcuts • Quickly set up your phone, Google account, and Wi-Fi connection • Play and organize all your media: music, photos, YouTube...

What will you learn from this book? If you have an idea for a killer Android app, this fully revised and updated edition will get you up and running in a jiffy. You'll go beyond syntax and how-to manuals and learn how to think like a great Android developer. This hands-on book teaches you everything from designing user interfaces to building multi-screen apps that persist data in a database. It covers the latest features of Android Jetpack, including...

"Android applications make use of advanced hardware and software, as well as local and server data, exposed through the platform to bring innovation and value to consumers. To protect that value, the platform must offer an application environment that ensures the security of users, data, applications, the device, and the network. Securing an open platform requires a robust security architecture and rigorous security programs, as well as developers...

"In this Learning Android Studio training course, expert author Chris Stanley will teach you how to use Android Studio to develop on the Android platform. This course is designed for the absolute beginner, meaning no previous experience with Android Studio is required. You will start by learning about basic project configuration and configuration settings, including code style settings, inspections, and debugging. From there, Chris will teach you...

Plan how to build a better app, grow it into a business, and earn money from your hard work using Firebase. In this book, Laurence Moroney, Staff Developer Advocate at Google, takes you through each of the 15 Firebase technologies, showing you how to use them with concrete examples. You'll see how to build cross-platform apps with the three pillars of the Firebase platform: technologies to help you develop apps with a real-time database, remote configuration,...

Build fast and efficient Android apps that run as reliably as clockwork in a multi-device world About This Book Wide coverage of various topics that help in developing optimal applications Explore the concepts of Advanced Native Coding in depth A must-have for professional-standard Android developers for whom performance failures and the sloppy use of resources are simply unacceptable Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at developers with an advanced...