Android User Interface Development: Beginner's Guide
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1849514488 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Teaches UI best practices This Book's title is "Android User Interface Development: Beginner's Guide" and I think it holds true to it's promise. Just be certain you aren't looking for an Android programming beginner's guide, because this book does not cover programming basics. It does cover all sorts of user interface considerations, and presents them in Packt's usual cookbook style. The book follows a pattern, where the reader is introduced to a topic, followed by the sections "Time for Action", "What Just Happened" and "Have a Go, Hero". "Time for Action" is a series of. "Practical approach" according to Gabor Paller. As the subtitle says, this book is for beginners and the author takes this mission seriously. The book follows a rigorous, step-by-step methodology. The reader is expected to start from an empty project and extend it line by line while the book explains, what is going on. It is best to demonstrate with an excerpt: Start by creating an empty Button element below our answers ViewGroup LinearLayout (but still within the root LinearLayout element). Assign it the ID skip, so that we can reference it in Java: android:id="@+id/skip" Create some padding . Book format is too confusing It's definitely a beginner book. I bought it as quick reference to areas I needed help in. Unfortunately the way the book was structured made it difficult. Each chapter has "time for action", "what just happened?" and "have a go hero" headings. This cluttered the table of contents and made it very difficult to search for topics.The author also splits the code examples into many segments - explaining each segment at a time. While conceptually this is a great idea, in execution it made very difficult to see the whole code. Which in turn made it dif
. Currently working as a Software Architect for an exciting travel company in South Africa he works on multiple front-end systems utilizing a variety of Java-based technologies. About the Author Jason Morris has worked on software as diverse as fruit tracking systems, insurance systems, and travel search and booking systems and has been writing software for as long as he can remember
This is a step-by-step guide that aims to give even a novice Android developer a good grasp of user-interface design, while working through examples, diagrams, and screenshots to showcase the various widgets and tools that the platform makes available.
Jason Morris has worked on software as diverse as fruit tracking systems, insurance systems, and travel search and booking systems and has been writing software for as long as he can remember. Currently working as a Software Architect for an exciting travel company in South Africa he works on multiple front-end