Murphy Mark L. The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development. Version 3.6

CommonsWare, 2011. — 698 p. — ISBN 978-0-9816780-0-9.Here is what's coming in the rest of this book: The two chapters are designed to get you going quickly with the Android environment, through a series of step-by-step, tutorial-style instructions for setting up the tools you need, creating your first project, and getting that first project running on the Android emulator. The three chapters that follow try to explain a bit more about what just happened in those first two chapters. We examine the Android project that we created, talk a bit more about Eclipse, and discuss some things we could add to the project to help it run on more devices and such. The bulk of the book is exploring various capabilities of the Android APIs – how to create components like activities, how to access the Internet and local databases, how to get your location and show it on a map, and so forth.