Android Boot Camp for Developers Using Java: A Guide to Creating Your First Android Apps 3rd Edition

Very 101. I've been learning Java for about a year now but never worked with in android studio. I still don't feel confident in my skills whatsoever and this book really breaks it down for me. I'm about half way through it now- I wish I had gone to this book first before anything else. Again I am no expert I'm just a student and maybe there are better books out there but from the dozen I've had so far this one is the most digestible to read and follow along. I highly suggest knowing a bit of Java already or you might be cheating yourself a bit- but as far as getting used to the environment and getting things done- this book does it for me. Very pleased.

Currently in an intro to mobile dev class and this is the required text. It's so outdated that it's impossible to actually use beyond referencing what they want the apps to eventually look like. The writing is also very strange giving you instructions for tint, incremental steps (i.e. "press the left mouse button and drag the button onto the emulator and then release the mouse button) while simultaneously not describing what the goal actually is, which, of course, is the main reason its unusable.As other people said, the images (in the ebook at least) are so blurry you can't read the text on them half the time.You CANNOT write a technical manual this way and expect it to be relevant 6 months later, let alone 4+ years later. Absolute waste of money and deserves to be removed from circulation so elderly, tenured professors who have no right to be teaching time-relevant courses can't keep assigning it.

Good one

I was told to buy this book as part of my app development class. I want to give it 5 stars but I feel like there could have been a bit more explaining for some parts. Or rather, more examples for certain concepts that take a while to learn.I just wish there was a Kindle / eBook / PDF version. I am surprised that there isn't because this book was made in 2015, where almost every book has an electronic version.

Been using a lot of books and this one is ok. You'll learn to build out apps by copying the book and then customizing that work later but their don't really speak to the how what your doing is working i.e. extending classes. Book seems to be written for users with no Java experience but you'll get a more out of it with you have some coding under your belt.

GREAT

Exercise step by step

The book constantly refers to examples contained within images on the page, but the images are all the poorest quality. You are stuck choosing between either letting it be extremely small and basically unreadable, or zooming in and letting it become barely readable due to the poor quality of the image. This is both on my PC and on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S2. I attached an image of a snippet of the code text in an early example at both 100% and 400%.