Lauren Darcey Livres

Revision of: Android wireless application development. Volume II, Advanced topics. 2012.

Authors Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder offer software developers step-by-step instruction on how to create and distribute their first marketable, professional Android applications. Each chapter contains Quizzes, Q&A and Exercises to help readers assess their skills. This book is the first step to getting started as a professional Android application developer. - Publisher.

It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th - the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their graduation. Their ensuing affair, with its violent, animal intensity and its intoxicating and toxic power play will initiate a dance of repulsion and attraction that will cross years, span continents, drag in countless victims - and culminate in terrible betrayal. At Certain Points We Touch is a story of first love and last rites, conjured against a vivid backdrop of London, San Francisco and New York - a riotous, razor-sharp coming-of-age story that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent

Focusing on Android essentials, the first volume of this comprehensive guide covers crucial topics such as setting up the development environment, understanding the application lifecycle, and designing user interfaces. It offers updated content for Android 4.0 SDK, including new chapters on Android manifest files, content providers, and addressing compatibility issues. The authors, seasoned mobile developers, share best practices and tips for creating robust apps, making this an essential resource for developers, team leaders, and QA specialists.