1.1 Introduction

Welcome to Android app development! We hope that working with Android How to Program will be an informative, challenging, entertaining and rewarding experience for you.

The Android portion of this book is geared toward people who know Java object-oriented programming. If you do not know Java or another object-oriented programming language, the appendices provide a friendly introduction to Java and the object-oriented programming techniques you’ll need to develop Android apps. We use only complete working Android apps, so if you have object-oriented programming experience in another language, such as C#, Objective-C/Cocoa or C++ (with class libraries), you should be able to master the material quickly, learning a good amount ...

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