Java Programming for Android Developers For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) 2nd Edition

So far, this book has been excellent. I had a problem running my first app so I emailed the author. I've never emailed the author of a book before and I wasn't expecting a personal reply...maybe a reply from a support person. He responded quickly with the information that I needed, so that was a very nice surprise. He was very helpful. I'm running apps successfully now.I'll leave an update to this review when I finish the book, but so far it's been great. I had tried learning Java from a different book, and while that book was accurate and good, it was abstract and didn't have practical real-world examples like this one. It's making learning easier.

When I started reading the book and working through the project code associated with it, I ran into errors trying to compile and run the code. The Author does mention to expect Android updates and that some of the book examples won't be exactly as current software. He provides multiple ways to contact him if you have problems with any of the book code.When contacted him, he was very helpful and went out of his his way to help me compile and run the code.Tip: If you try to compile and run the code from the book files and receive an error. Create new projects with the same name as the book examples. Then copy and paste the app/src/main folder from the books code to your new project with the same name. This fixed the error and I was able to compile and run the code.

This is a very comprehensive books for learning the in-and-out of Android Development. I dabbled into this field by myself and stumbled A LOTS cause while I did have some background in web development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, etc), those knowledge don’t translate well into Java, especially Java for Android because Java by nature is a much more stricter language. This book makes many annoying blocks very clear to me. Overall, excellent book for inspiring Android Developers.I only have one minor complain. It is hard at times to follow the authors reference about a block of code because you have to flip back and forth.

Very well written introduction for Android Developers! Book's author has a great sense of humor, with quite funny comments sprinkled throughout the book. The book assumes no background in both Java or Android. Highly recommended!

Still useing

Excellent book very easy to keep up.

First let me say that this book was a nuisance to read . I found of the screenshots and highlighted areas throughout the book to be hard to read. I would say about 3/4 of this book relates to beginner Java programming and most of isn't related specifically to android programming. There are only bits of pieces of the Android framework being explained in this book. It doesn't explain basic things like Android activity lifecycle, R Class, fragments, bundles, device rotation, and views which are all basic building blocks of android programming. The last two chapters build two applications which implements a 3rd party library, authentication, threading, and other advanced topics. If you don't already know Android or advanced Java programming before reading this book, it would be hard to understand these projects. At this point the book is fairly outdated, since Android has changed significantly since the book was written. Also, a new Android programmer would think at the time of the publication there is only one version of Android, as it doesn't bring you up to date from previous versions or explain why you need to develop an application that runs on multiple versions of Android. There are two good chapters in the book that discuss inner classes anonymous classes, lambdas which explained these topics better than other books I have read.

I only tried to read this book a couple of times, but I still don't know anything about JavaScript!