JAVA 16: MOBIL PHONES AND ANDROID

The current book is the sixteenth in this series of books on software development in Java, and it is at the same time the first of two books that focus on developing applications for Android, and especially for mobile phone applications. The books requires basic knowledge of Java and system development in general, and the goal is that the reader, after reading this book, is able to write simple applications to an Android phone. Important topics are the most common widgets, layouts and basically about activities, but also use of files and databases are processed. Mobile phone programming is in many ways different from programming to a usual computer, for example because the phone is another machine than a traditional computer, and the phone and, for that matter, other Android devices like tablets have other features that are not available on a PC. However, these features are dealt with in the following book.

As the title says this series of books deals with software development, and the goal is to teach the reader how to develop applications in Java. It can be learned by reading about the subject and by studying complete sample programs, but most importantly by yourself to do it and write your own programs from scratch. Therefore, an important part of the books is exercises and problems, where the reader has to write programs that correspond to the substance being treated in the books. All books in the series is built around the same skeleton and will consist of text and examples and exercises and problems that are placed in the text where they naturally belongs. The difference between exercises and problems is that the exercises largely deals with repetitions of the substance that is presented in the text, and furthermore it is relatively accurately described what to do. Problems are in turn more loosely described, and are typically a little bigger and there is rarely any clear best solution.

These are books to be read from start to finish, but the many code examples, including exercises and problems plays a central role, and it is important that the reader predict in detail studying the code to the many examples and also solves the exercises and problems or possibly just studying the recommended solutions.

All books ends with one or two larger sample programs, which focus primarily is on process and an explanation of how the program is written. On the other hand appears the code only to a limited extent – if at all – and the reader should instead study the finished program code perhaps while testing the program.

All books in this series written by Poul Klausen are :-

Java 1: Basic syntax and semantics
Java 2: Programs with a graphical user interface
Java 3: Object-oriented programming
Java 4: Java’s type system and collection classes
Java 5: Files and Java IO
Java 6: JDBC and database applications
Java 7: About system development
Java 8: Multithreaded programs
Java 9: Swing, Documents and printing
Java 10: Java2D, Drawing of the window
Java 11: Web applications and Java EE
Java 12: WWW and development of the client part
Java 13: Distributed programming and Java EE
Java 14: Development of applications with JavaFX
Java 15: More about JavaFX
Java 16: Mobile phones and Android
Java 17: More about Java and Android
Java 18: Algorithms and data structures
19: More algorithms and data structures
Java 20: About the system development process

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