Format: Paperback Verified Purchase. Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2018. I only had 6 chapters under my belt and I can write a simple mobile application already without looking at the book (a textview with a button and display the message via toast. This page works best with JavaScript. I DO NOT believe that this is a good book. If you're even minimally mentally agile (as I), I HIGHLY recommend this book as a companion to Android Studio, and give yourself time and latitude to switch between the visual and text editors to see how they blend. I am currently working through the chapters with Android Studio and it is going very well. It does a great job at showing you code, but could have done a better job at explaining what's going on. Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2016. It was what I was looking for, Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2016. Furthermore, the book explains what each line of code does and why. Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2014, Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2015. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. The book walks you through 3 different apps. The examples are very good, consistent, and interesting enough. My favorite aspect about the book is that there are challenges at the end of each chapter to give the reader a chance to review what they learned in the chapter before moving on to the next. The code examples are very easy to follow. The book is written so clear and easy to follow that I didn't have to read it multiple times to understand the content. Advice abounds on the balance and there are reasons for mixing some activities and fragments. Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide is an introductory Android book for programmers with Java experience. Later I found the book Murach's Android Programming and found it A LOT better and easier to get you started in Android programming. La manera con la que te van guiando y explicando, los retos al final de cada capítulo, todo ello, te ayuda a consolidar lo que se está aprendiendo. Now after going through 2 thirds of that book, I can go back to the "Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide" and understand what it is talking about. I bought this book a while ago and wanted to start learning Android development. I've used a few different Android tutorials, and this one is head and shoulders above the rest. Lastly one of the big problems with android is handling the range of phones and tablets on the market. One further minor criticism is the treatment of fragments where I feel that the authors could provide better advice on using fragments and activities. The book mainly focuses on developing one entire app 'Criminal Intent', with each chapter delving into more complex topics such as adding camera access, and SQLite support with the culmination being a fully developed android app. Programming is a very huge and deep subject and nobody can hope to cover it all, but this is probably about as thorough an introduction as you are likely to find. Since Goolge recommends the second option in order to receive any future updates, this is what I'll do. At the end of each chapter, there may be a "challenge" section where you are given the opportunity to go off the beaten path and add additional functionality not covered initially throughout the chapter. I can no longer run any of my projects. Seems like every few years, Android just changes their development software. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The book is a very nice step by step approach to Android. Lo recomiendo al 100% . Android Studio keeps changing at a dizzying pace without any warning from Google. I could not implement the last chapter - adding Google Maps to the Runtracker project. This page works best with JavaScript. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides), See all details for Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides), © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. This, of course, is not any fault of the book, its just that the book is based on Eclipse which is pretty much OBE. The 2nd edition even got better, as it was/is the 1st book on the market that uses Android Studio and was fully updated to the newest Android version in Summer 2015. I resorted to Google and StackOverflow many times to make ends meet. One thing suspiciously missing from the book is how to deploy an app to the Google Play Store.