Introduction
Learning to develop software is like learning to ride a bike: you will not get very far unless you hop on and start pedaling. This book focuses on development in much the same way. Each chapter will introduce new, core concepts to Android and follow with code samples. I find that I learn best by sitting down and writing code. I encourage you to follow this book with your computer, writing and testing code as you go. Please view this book more as a guide to follow than a textbook to memorize.
The first two parts of the book will walk you through developing and extending a single, core app. Each chapter in these parts is designed to continue building on the one before. The final three parts compartmentalize the topics, providing functional ...
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