Android Programming for Beginners - This book, though for beginner programmers that may not be familiar with Java, can be used as a refresher for job interviews or for a personal refresh. I was surprised at how the author took some complex topics and made them understandable to someone who might not know anything about programming. You get to building apps right away. The environment is typical Windows and Android Studio, but if all you have is a Mac you should be fine too if you are intuitive about installing things. If you are really wanting to be a programmer, you're going to have to learn to figure out problems all the time, so following this on a Mac should not be any issue. But if you've really never programmed, then I'd recommend sticking with Windows and following along exactly.
You get to build quite a few apps from the basic setup all the way to publishing the app and marketing it. The meat of the book is really about understanding the Android environment with a programmers mind. Don't worry, it goes over Java language as well with some great analagies that I see would help even the newbie of noobs. But we were all noobs at some point, and this book is a great start at it. I wish I had this book when I started programming native Android. Highly recommended.
No comments:
Post a Comment