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Programming Android
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Programming Android

by Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, Masumi Nakamura
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
500 pages
15h 3m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The animal on the cover of Programming Android is a pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator). A member of the finch family, these largest of the so-called “winter finches” can be found throughout the coniferous forests of the northern hemisphere: in Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia. More rarely, during the winter some individuals stray as far south as the upper Midwest and New England portions of the United States, and on occasion even into temperate Europe.

Adult pine grosbeaks are rather distinctive looking. Both males and females have long forked black tails and black wings with white wing bars. The remainder of a male’s plumage is predominantly red, while females display an olive color on the head and rump and gray on the back and underside. Conversely, colors on young pine grosbeaks are noticeably more subdued.

Pine grosbeaks feed mostly on vegetable matter, including the buds, seeds, and fruit of various varieties of tree, though they will also eat insects, and in fact prefer to feed such to their young. Interestingly, breeding adults will develop pouches in the floor of its mouth specifically designed to carry this food back to the nest.

The cover image is from Johnson’s Natural History. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont’s TheSans Mono Condensed.

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