Preface
Have you ever wanted to be a Rodin, sitting with a chisel and eroding a block of rock to mold it to your vision? Mainstream programmers have kept away from the severely constrained mobile devices for fear of being unable to chisel out a workable application. Well, those times are past.
Android OS places programmatically unconstrained mobile devices (with an incredible reach) at your doorstep. In this book, we want to positively confirm your suspicion that Android is a great OS to program with. If you are a Java programmer, you have a wonderful opportunity to profit from the Android OS, an exciting, capable, and general-purpose computing platform. Despite being a mobile OS, the Android OS has introduced new paradigms in framework design. ...
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