Advanced Android 0.9 Now Available!

The Busy Coder’s Guide to Advanced Android Development, Version 0.9, is now available to those on the Warescription. It will show up in print in about 6-7 weeks.

Learn more in this cw-android Google Group post.

 

Market Movers: Marketing Starts Here

When the doors blew off the iPhone App Store on its initial launch, with trivial applications earning developers thousands of dollars per day, I knew that eventually, people would expect the same thing with Android. The problem is, the iPhone App Store circumstances just don’t happen all that frequently.

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More Book News!

The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development is now available in print as Version 2.0, available from Amazon.com and other fine online bookstores.

And, The Busy Coder’s Guide to Advanced Android Development is now up to Version 0.6, adding material on gradients, nine-patch graphics, Contacts, and more ListView techniques. People with an active Warescription can download the updated book now in PDF form.

The Advanced Android book will get to Version 0.9 by mid to late March, Version 1.0 in April, and in print shortly thereafter. April should also see a Version 2.1 of the Android book and the first glimpses of the next book in the pipeline.

 

Tabs with Intents

If you look at the Android widgets and classes related to tabs, you’ll see that a tab can have either a View or an Activity as its contents. Most of the time, people use Views, as they are simpler to implement and lighter-weight to run. However, there may be circumstances where you feel putting your activities in tabs would be useful, so let’s take a look at how that is done, in a modified excerpt from Version 1.9 of The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development.

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