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Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book?

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On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 8:00:08 PM UTC-4, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> writes:
> >Anybody got a recommendation for a good Android programming book based 
> >on the current Android Studio?
> 
>   Most Android books are alike, as if one author had copied the
>   structure from another author. For example, near the begining
>   you will learn that there are four types of components (activities,
>   broadcast receivers, and two others I now have forgotten) and
>   about the lifecycle of an activity (onCreate, onResume, onPause, ...).
>   You will learn about the structure of a file called IIRC
>   »AndroidManifest.XML«. There is not (yet) an outstanding work 
>   that can be highly recommended (such as »Effective Java« by
>   Joshua Bloch or »Exceptional C++« by Herb Sutter).
> 
>   Newer books will also teach new APIs, like fragments. But to
>   learn the fundamentals, this is not required.
> 
>   Another type of Android programming book is the »Android
>   programming cookbook« kind of book, there you will find
>   »recipes«, for example, how to take a picture using the cam.
>   These books might assume that the fundamentals are already know.
>   If you happen to need a certain »recipe« and you find this
>   in a certain cookbook, then this book is good for you,
>   even if you do not need the other recipes right now.
> 
>   I checked out Android Studio. If you have no problems with software
>   that will connect to the internet and does stuff there that you
>   don't know about, it might be ok for you!
> 
>   The build system of Android Studio is Gradle. I checked out Gradle.
>   In 2013 or 2014, I found that the Gradle DSL does not seem to
>   be well documented. See the repost below.
> 
>   I wasted some time trying to understand and use Gradle.
>   And what works best for me now, is to just call the SDK myself!
>   No Ant, no gradle, no Eclipse, no AndroidStudio.
>   I just call javac, dex, aapt and jarsigner from a batch script.
>   I know what is going on, it's fast, and I can even do this
>   natively on an Android device using Terminal IDE (which,
>   however, does not work on Android 5 yet).
> 

Why not just use Eclipse with the Android plugin?

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Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-05-20 15:16 -0700
  Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-05-21 20:30 -0400
  Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-05-22 08:16 -0700
    Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-05-25 20:40 -0700
      Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-05-26 10:15 +0000
        Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2015-05-26 13:27 +0200
          Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-05-26 07:33 -0700
          Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-05-26 19:52 +0000
            Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-05-26 17:21 -0400
              Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-05-26 22:36 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-03 21:26 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-04 21:00 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-06-05 08:06 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-05 17:30 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-06-05 13:59 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-06-05 05:50 -0700
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-05 17:35 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-06 23:50 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-06-08 07:39 -0700
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-28 21:42 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-29 08:20 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-29 05:49 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 07:37 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 07:35 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-29 15:01 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 14:08 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 14:18 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-29 21:00 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-07-27 22:22 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-06 23:48 -0400

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