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# Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

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Review: Excellent book! Before picking it up - Excellent book! Before picking it up, I had a decent understanding of Java but little understanding of Android development. This book has been really helpful at teaching me some of the core concepts of creating applications for the Android OS. I believe you'll get the best out of this book by completing it from front to back, including the challenges at the end of each chapter. This will not only give you a reference to concepts in plain text, but it will also provide you with actual code to compile and run in Android Studio. Navigating the code will help abstract concepts become practical and memorable. That said, this book will not make you an Android guru. Instead, it will provide you with a solid foundation to build upon. I was fortunate enough to work for an awesome company that allowed me to read through this book at work and I believe it paid off tremendously.
Review: Great introduction to Android Development! - As an experienced software engineer but new to the Android system I found this book to be an excellent introduction. I'd attempted to pick up the system organically by installing the dev environment and working through some tutorials. But Android is not a simple development environment. The IDE has a million buttons and the underlying project has tons of config files. Then of course there are all the Android SDKs etc etc. This book eases you into the system with simple examples and then takes the time to explain what's important in the supporting infrastructure. I feel much more informed about the whole thing and confident that the project I need to port will be successful. I should also note that Big Nerd Ranch published an introduction to Cocoa development that I relied on (almost 15 years ago!) to make the switch to Mac OS X development. Good to see that the quality of their instructional texts is still top notch!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #2,679,388 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #649 in Mobile App Development & Programming #673 in Computer Operating Systems (Books) #2,563 in Operating Systems (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 176 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent book! Before picking it up
*by M***Z on April 5, 2018*

Excellent book! Before picking it up, I had a decent understanding of Java but little understanding of Android development. This book has been really helpful at teaching me some of the core concepts of creating applications for the Android OS. I believe you'll get the best out of this book by completing it from front to back, including the challenges at the end of each chapter. This will not only give you a reference to concepts in plain text, but it will also provide you with actual code to compile and run in Android Studio. Navigating the code will help abstract concepts become practical and memorable. That said, this book will not make you an Android guru. Instead, it will provide you with a solid foundation to build upon. I was fortunate enough to work for an awesome company that allowed me to read through this book at work and I believe it paid off tremendously.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great introduction to Android Development!
*by R***T on April 24, 2017*

As an experienced software engineer but new to the Android system I found this book to be an excellent introduction. I'd attempted to pick up the system organically by installing the dev environment and working through some tutorials. But Android is not a simple development environment. The IDE has a million buttons and the underlying project has tons of config files. Then of course there are all the Android SDKs etc etc. This book eases you into the system with simple examples and then takes the time to explain what's important in the supporting infrastructure. I feel much more informed about the whole thing and confident that the project I need to port will be successful. I should also note that Big Nerd Ranch published an introduction to Cocoa development that I relied on (almost 15 years ago!) to make the switch to Mac OS X development. Good to see that the quality of their instructional texts is still top notch!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nice book for beginner
*by W***N on March 5, 2017*

I owned this version and 2nd Ed. It's a good book overall but I think it can be improved in following areas: 1. Code examples: Code examples are good but they lack of coherence. For example, when teaching Fragment, the authors are trying to tell readers what to do but the codes are piece by piece, I have to read back to remind myself what's going on within a class. I think the better way will be post the whole class out at the beginning of the chapter then walk through the code line by line or class by class. Also, the author should tell the user about the API of android class, such as Intent(), LayoutInflator class etc. This book simply uses the methods without mentioning too much about the parameters in the methods. 2. Download code: the code repo for this book has some errors. The gradle settings of the code are from the author, I have to change the build.gradle to make downloaded code work. Ideally, it should be mentioned in code repo or in the book.

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