ProAndroid3 is an extensive programming guide to the wildly successful Android mobile/tablet SDK. Read this book to build applications for Android based phones and tablets. In this 3rd edition we've refined, rewritten and enhanced everything from Pro Android 2 to create a very thorough guide for both beginers and professionals. This is a result of over 3 years of research by an experienced group of authors. Over 100 topics covered across 31 chapters. This edition covers both 2.3 and 3.0 of Android, the respective optimized versions of Android for phones and tablets.

we have beefed up Android internals by covering threads, processes, long running services, broad cast receivers, and alarm managers. We cover lot more UI controls in this edition. We have over 150 pages of dedicated material on 3.0 covering fragments, fragment dialogs, actionbar, drag and drop. We have significatnly enhanced services and sensor chapters. OpenGL has been revised to include OpenGL ES 2.0.

The books is full of self contained tutorials in each chapter annotated with expert advice. All projects in the book are available as a zip file for downloads. The code can also be compiled right out of the book. The list of files that goes into each project are explicitely catalogued and listed in each chapter for easy reference.

What you'll learn:

How to use Android to build Java-based mobile applications.

How to use an extensive number of controls for UI development.

How to populate your application with data from data sources called Content Providers

How to effectiely use multiple threads for better performance and long running services.

How to create 3D graphics with OpenGL

How to build multimedia apps using Android?s Media APIs

How to use Android's location-based services, network-based services, security, and craft long running services

How to use new Android 3.0 features, such as Fragments, fragment dialogs, ActionBar, and Drag and Drop.

In this book we went beyound basics and asked tough questions on every topic and documented the results. See the table of contents for an extensive list of what we cover in the book. Take advantage of the supplimental website (www.androidbook.com) for current and future research material on the Android SDK.