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Develop Android applications using the new features of Android Ice Cream Sandwich Overview Learn new APIs in Android 4. Get familiar with the best practices in developing Android applications. Step-by-step approach with clearly explained sample codes. In Detail Recently, with the increasing popularity of mobile phones, mobile operating systems have emerged and quickly spread. Now people with smart phones can do everything that they can do with their computers. The popularity of the Android mobile operating system has increased and is widely used. In this book, new features and innovations of Android 4 will be discussed. "Android 4: New Features for Application Development" is a practical and hands-on guide for developing android applicati...

If you ever wanted to learn about the latest features of iOS 5 and learn how to incorporate Twitter, iCloud and Core Image framework effects functionality into your applications, then this book is for you. You should have a good knowledge of programming experience with Objective-C, and have used Xcode 4. iPhone programming experience is not required. Each chapter will take you through a new major feature of iOS 5. You will learn how to integrate each feature into your applications. Building on the phenomenal success of its predecessor iOS 5 includes over 200 new user features as well as an updated SDK containing over 1,500 new APIs. iOS 5 looks set to reinforce the iPhone.s dominance in the smartphone market. iOS 5 Essentials will help you learn how...

Discover the native side of Android and inject the power of C/C++ in your applications Create high performance applications with C/C++ and integrate with Java Exploit advanced Android features such as graphics, sound, input and sensing Port and reuse your own or third-party libraries from the prolific C/C++ ecosystem In Detail Android NDK is all about injecting high performance into your apps. Exploit the maximum power of these mobile devices using high-performance and portable code. This book will show you how to create C/C++ enabled applications and integrate them with Java. You will learn how to access native API and port libraries used in some of the most successful Android applications. Using this practical step-by-step tutorial, highlighted ...

Exploit the power of data-centric and data-driven Android applications with this practical tutorial Master the skills to build data-centric Android applications Go beyond just code by challenging yourself to think about practical use-cases with SQLite and others Focus on flushing out high level design concepts, before drilling down into different code examples In Detail We live in an increasingly data-centric and data-driven world. On top of that we live in a very mobile-centric world with the rise of Android smart phones and tablet devices and the surge in demand for the Android platform. Along with the demand for more data, there is a demand for efficient, "snappy" applications, and so developers need to have a strong understanding of whe...

Over 70 working recipes covering every aspect of Android development Written for Android 3.0 but also applicable to lower versions Quickly develop applications that take advantage of the very latest mobile technologies, including web apps, sensors, and touch screens Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Discover tips and tricks for varied and imaginative uses of the latest Android features In Detail Android is a mobile operating system that runs on a staggering number of smartphones and tablets. Android offers developers the ability to build extremely rich and innovative applications written using the Java programming language. Among the number of books that have been published on the topic, what's missing is a thoroughly practical, hands-on book that t...