Books

Learn how to create and completely customize image-rich Android apps with Glide. Boost your productivity and save yourself valuable time by learning all the required optimizations for an amazing user experience. This book is based on Glide 4.8.0.Sample app & code is included.

Do you want to write Java apps that run on mobile phones, tablets as well as your desktop computer? In this book you'll learn how to design and develop apps and upload them to Google Play and Apples App Store. The technology we'll use for that is DukeScript, a new framework for single-source cross-platform development in Java.

"100 Questions and Answers to help you land your Dream Android Job" collects 100 questions and answers, divided in three levels, that the author has been summarising during several years both as an interviewer and as a candidate. If you are looking for a position as an Android developer, no matter how experience you are, or if you are looking to hire new members for your organisation, this book will provide you all the material you need to take the right decision and hire the right candidate!

Kotlin is the new official language to write Android Apps, and thanks to this book, you'll be writing code in no time. Straight to the point, practical and full of examples, it will show you the language while developing an Android App. Learn the Kotlin and start enjoying Android development again with this powerful and modern language.

Learn how to create effective REST clients on Android with Retrofit. Boost your productivity and enjoy working with complex APIs.

Learn how to create image-rich Android apps with Picasso. Boost your productivity and save yourself valuable time by learning all the required optimizations for an amazing user experience. This book is based on Picasso 2.5.2.A sample app & code base is included.

With this book, you can leverage your existing JavaScript experience and be a highly productive app developer from day one, thanks to the React Native framework developed by Facebook which allows to create blazingly fast and fluid native iOS apps by writing JavaScript code.

Learn time-tested fundamental TDD and design techniques that make TDD in Android productive and fun. Avoid spending a lot of time tweaking fancy test libraries and difficult IDE/gradle setups. WARNING this book by now is out of date.

Do you want do dip your toes into Android app development? This is the perfect gentle introduction for you.