Android Application Development: A Beginner's Tutorial

This book is a collection of Android App sample code using Android Studio. At this time, i.e., early 2015, this book is one of the few books that use Android Studio as the development tool for the sample code. Most of the code, if not all, work. However, this book does not provide enough explanation about the material required for developers to learn how to develop android applications. Some examples, such as Chapter 14 Multi-Pane Layouts, only use the Android Studio template to generate the app and NOTHING MORE THAN that. That was a definitely turn off. I meant it--absolutely no more than the code generated by Android Studio. If you strongly need to follow a book to learn how to develop Android Applications based on Android Studio 1.0 in early 2015, you can purchase this book and follow the first couple of chapters to set up the environment and use the rest of the book as code examples. It is not totally useless. However, you may need to browse develper.android.com to find more resources online. You can find more working examples by purchasing "Beginning Android 4 Application Development" authored by Wei-Meng Lee and use Import Android Applications (Eclipse (ADT), or Gradle, etc.) option to open the examples.In summary, this book is not totally useless. But for a beginner, only the first couple of chapters for setting up the Android Studio environment are good for you. There is extremely little to no explanation in this book.

If you want to learn android application development in a quick way using latest IDE called Android Studio, then this book is for you.