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Gradle for Android. Automate the build process for your Android projects with Gradle

Kevin Pelgrims

If you are an experienced Android developer wanting to enhance your skills with the Gradle Android build system, then this book is for you. As a prerequisite, you will need some knowledge of the concepts of Android application development.

Hello! Flex 4

Peter Armstrong

Najnowszy Flex — aktualna książka. Wykorzystaj szansę! Jak stworzyć swój pierwszy projekt? Jak projektować style? Co wybrać: AJAX czy Flex? A może je połączyć? Flex w wersji 4 to najnowszy krzyk mody na rynku aplikacji webowych. Pozwala na tworzenie rozwiązań internetowych w niczym nieprzypominających tych, z którymi mamy do czynienia na co dzień. Są one atrakcyjne pod względem graficznym, charakteryzują się wysoką interakcyjnością oraz nieprawdopodobnie ogromnymi możliwościami. Jeżeli wspomnieć jeszcze o tym, że jest to środowisko zupełnie darmowe… pora przygotować się na rewolucję w świecie aplikacji internetowych! Od marca 2010 roku dostępna jest najnowsza wersja Fleksa, oznaczona numerem 4. Warto poznawać tę wersję z podręcznikiem "Hello! Flex 4" w dłoni. Znajdziesz tu wszechstronną wiedzę na temat języków ActionScript, XML, E4X, obiektów pierwotnych oraz zasad projektowania stylów. Ponadto dowiesz się, jak tworzyć efekty, animacje oraz jak wykorzystać obiekty typu DataGrid. Jednak zanim dojdziesz do tych interesujących, lecz złożonych zagadnień, będziesz miał okazję zapoznać się z samym środowiskiem oraz najlepszymi praktykami i metodami pracy. Jeżeli chcesz rozpocząć przygodę z najnowszą wersją środowiska Flex — nie mogłeś lepiej trafić! Rozpocznij ją już dziś! Pierwsze kroki we Fleksie — omówienie platformy Nasłuchiwanie zdarzeń Wiązanie danych — adnotacja Bindable Struktura aplikacji pisanych w środowisku Flex Języki ActionScript, XML, E4X Definiowanie zmiennych i przestrzenie nazw Obiekty, tablice oraz sterowanie przepływem Dziedziczenie i inne pojęcia obiektowe w środowisku Flex Składniki typu Spark Stany widoku Projektowanie stylów Tworzenie animacji i efektów specjalnych Wykorzystanie obiektów typu DataGrid Zastosowanie pojemników nawigacyjnych oraz elementów wyskakujących Projektowanie i tworzenie formularzy Rozpocznij przygodę z Flex 4 bez najmniejszych problemów!

How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin. A hands-on guide to developing, testing, and publishing production-grade Android 16 apps - Third Edition

Alex Forrester, Eran Boudjnah, Alexandru Dumbravan, Jomar...

Written by four veteran developers with 60+ years of collective experience, this updated third edition will jumpstart your Android development journey, focusing on Kotlin libraries and Jetpack Compose, Google’s powerful declarative UI framework.You’ll learn the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to use Android Studio, as well as get to grips with Jetpack Compose to create your first screens, build apps to run them on virtual devices through guided exercises, and implement Jetpack Compose’s layout groups to make the most of lists, images, and maps. The book has been updated with Kotlin’s powerful networking and coroutines libraries to help you fetch data in the background from a web service and manage displaying the data using Kotlin flows. You’ll learn about testing, creating clean architecture, and persisting data, as well as exploring the dependency injection pattern and learning how to publish your apps on the Google Play Store. You'll also work on realistic projects split up into bite-size exercises and activities, along with building apps to create quizzes, read news articles, check weather reports, store recipes, retrieve movie information, and remind you where you parked your car.By the end of this book, you'll have gained the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android apps using Kotlin.

How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin. A hands-on guide to developing, testing, and publishing your first apps with Android

Alex Forrester, Eran Boudjnah, Alexandru Dumbravan, Jomar...

Are you keen to get started building Android 11 apps, but don’t know where to start? How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin is a comprehensive guide that will help kick-start your Android development practice.This book starts with the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to utilize Android Studio and Kotlin to get started building Android projects. You'll learn how to create apps and run them on virtual devices through guided exercises. Progressing through the chapters, you'll delve into Android’s RecyclerView to make the most of lists, images, and maps, and see how to fetch data from a web service.Moving ahead, you'll get to grips with testing, learn how to keep your architecture clean, understand how to persist data, and gain basic knowledge of the dependency injection pattern. Finally, you'll see how to publish your apps on the Google Play store.You'll work on realistic projects that are split up into bitesize exercises and activities, allowing you to challenge yourself in an enjoyable and attainable way. You'll build apps to create quizzes, read news articles, check weather reports, store recipes, retrieve movie information, and remind you where you parked your car.By the end of this book, you'll have the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android applications using Kotlin.

Instant Optimizing Embedded Systems Using BusyBox. Learn to optimize embedded systems with Busybox using practical, hands-on recipes

Wu Zhangjin, Cao Ziqiang

As hundreds of millions of people have started using Android smartphones, embedded Linux systems are becoming more and more popular. To get more market share, not only for hardware and function piling up, smartphone manufacturers gradually realized the importance of user experience. To improve user experience, the back-end Linux system must be optimized in many ways.Instant Optimizing Embedded System Using BusyBox is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises to help you take advantage of the real power behind Busybox, and give you a good grounding for using it to optimize your embedded (Android Linux) systems.Moving on from the basics, this book will teach you how to configure and compile it from source code, including cross-compiling it with static linking and dynamic linking. You will also learn how to install and use Busybox on the Android emulator. You will learn to replace the simple Android mksh console with Busybox ash console and start a telnet and HTTP service provided by Busybox. You will also build embedded Linux file system from scratch and start it on Android emulator. We will take a look at how to add functionality to Busybox based system, including adding external applets to Busybox, as well as building development environments (like Bash and C) for it manually or with the automatic Buildroot system.If want to learn how to take advantage of using Busybox applets to optimize your embedded system, then this is the book for you for it will also show you how to use the powerful applets to optimize multiple aspects of an embedded (Android Linux) system.This book will teach you how to build an embedded (Android Linux) system with Busybox, enhance its functionality to meet diverse system requirements, and optimize it to provide a better user experience for embedded products.

Instant Sencha Touch. Build native applications with Sencha Touch easily and efficiently

Hiren j Dave

Sencha Touch, a high-performance HTML5 mobile application framework, is the cornerstone of the Sencha HTML5 platform. Built for enabling world-class user experiences, Sencha Touch is the only framework that enables developers to build fast and impressive apps that work on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Kindle Fire, and more.Instant Sencha Touch is a practical hands on guide that provides you with all you need to explore the Sencha Touch framework and start building high performance, cross platform mobile applications with rich user interfaces. It also covers native deployment of Sencha Touch applications on various platforms.Instant Sencha Touch is a step-by-step guide that will explain you everything from downloading Sencha Touch SDK to setting up the development environment, and building applications. You will start with a quick overview of the Sencha Touch and work your way through understanding the class structure, and basic components and layouts of the Sencha Touch. You will also cover interesting features like animations, adaptive layout, data packages, local storage support, and so on. You will also see how to build your own theme and styles and deploy Sencha Touch app as native apps.You will also learn about MVC architecture for building Sencha Touch applications. Finally you will take a look at the Phonegap (Cordova) build and Cordova SDK to deploy Sencha Touch application as native application.

Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin. Enhance your applications by integrating Jetpack and applying modern app architectural concepts

Catalin Ghita

With Jetpack libraries, you can build and design high-quality, robust Android apps that have an improved architecture and work consistently across different versions and devices. This book will help you understand how Jetpack allows developers to follow best practices and architectural patterns when building Android apps while also eliminating boilerplate code.Developers working with Android and Kotlin will be able to put their knowledge to work with this condensed practical guide to building apps with the most popular Jetpack libraries, including Jetpack Compose, ViewModel, Hilt, Room, Paging, Lifecycle, and Navigation. You'll get to grips with relevant libraries and architectural patterns, including popular libraries in the Android ecosystem such as Retrofit, Coroutines, and Flow while building modern applications with real-world data.By the end of this Android app development book, you'll have learned how to leverage Jetpack libraries and your knowledge of architectural concepts for building, designing, and testing robust Android applications for various use cases.

Learning Android Application Testing. Improve your Android applications through intensive testing and debugging

Paul Blundell

If you are an Android developer looking to test your applications or optimize your application development process, then this book is for you. No previous experience in application testing is required.