Introduction
Over the last two years, Google's Android operating system (OS) has gone from a virtually unknown open source solution to the current mobile OS market leader among all mobile handsets, with over one-third of the market share, and it's still climbing rapidly. Android has even started to dominate the tablet OS marketplace, and is also the foundation for the popular iTV OS known as GoogleTV. There seems to be no end in sight for Android's rocketing success, which is great news for owners of this book.
I've heard a great many people say, "I have a really phenomenal idea for a smartphone application! Can you program it for me!?" Rather than sit back and code all of these applications for everyone, I thought it might be a smarter idea to ...
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