Expert Android

Introduction

As a programmer, designer, or architect, you may be lulled into thinking that the Android API is merely what you use to write mobile programs for the Android mobile platform—which, of course, is true. However, we believe that the Android architecture has an undercurrent that makes it a key pillar in the cloud-based Google computing era that is beckoning all of us! When you learn deeply about the Android API, you are gaining a pass to the future of Google, and perhaps to the future of all of us.

This book, Expert Android, is our fifth book on Android in the last four years. In the first four books, published under the Pro Android name, we covered increasingly new material on the core Android API. Expert Android is the outcome of our ...