Learn through Applications Practical Coverage with many examples: Applications for Smartphone and Tablet, ADT Plug-In for Eclipse Activities, Intents, Content Providers, Toast, Resource Files, Contact Editing, and Gesture Applications for Tablet, ActionBar, and AppWidgets Animation with Intermediate Frames, Animation Properties Camera, Sound, Video, Graphics, OpenGL ES Accessing the Gallery Collection and Media Library SharedPreference, Serialization, SQLite Handlers, and Multithreaded Games Google Maps, GPS, Location Services.

Sensor Applications with Internet Capabilities, Web Services, Telephony, Bluetooth Text-to-Speech and Speech Recognition Android Market, Pricing, Financing. The professional developer's guide by Deitel for Android, for developing applications for smartphones and tablets and for the Eclipse IDE with the Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in.

Billions of applications have been downloaded from the Android Market! This book provides you with everything you need to start developing great applications for Android and publish them on the Android Market. This book uses an application-based approach - each new technology is discussed within the context of 12 fully tested Android applications, complete with their code, discussions of the code, and sample outputs.

The applications you will develop include the following: Targeting Game Application, Slide Presentation Application, Flag Finding Game Application, Path Tracking Application, Twitter Favorite Searches Application, Address Book Application, Tip Calculation Application, Doodlz Application, Weather Conditions Display Application, Cannon Game Application.