Pro Android 2 (Repost)

The age of Web 2.0 smart mobile phones and handsets is here. First there was the BlackBerry, then there was the iPhone, and now … there’s Google, with its Android Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK) and platform, and its hardware partners in the Open Handset Alliance. Android works with the HTC G1 and G2 phones, the DROID, and the Nexus One. Android is also available on other mobile phones and devices, including netbooks.
Pro Android 2 shows you how to build real-world and fun mobile applications using Google’s Android SDK. This book covers everything from the fundamentals of building applications for embedded devices to advanced concepts such as custom 3D components.
Discover the design and architecture of the Android SDK, and how to build mobile applications using the Android SDK.
Explore and use the Android APIs, including those for media and Wi-Fi.
Learn about Android 2.0’s integrated local and web search, handwriting gesture UI, Google Translate, and text-to-speech features.
With Android and this book, you’ll be able to build mobile applications ranging from games to Google apps, including add-ons to Google Docs. You’ll be able to extend and run the new Google Chrome APIs on the G1, the G2, and other next-generation Google phones and Android-enabled devices.

What you’ll learn
How to use Android to build Java-based mobile applications for Google phones with a touch screen or keyboard (thanks to Cupcake’s inclusion as of Android 1.5)
How to design and architect using Google’s Android SDK
How to use the Android SDK to write mobile applications for embedded devices
How to create 3D graphics with OpenGL and custom components
How to build multimedia and game apps using Android’s Media APIs and OpenGL
How to use Android’s location-based services, networking (Wi-Fi APIs), and security
How to create and allow for more integrated local and web searches
How to build handwriting gesture UIs
How to incorporate Google Translate into your Android applications

Who is this book for?
This book is for professional software engineers/programmers looking to move their ideas and applications into the mobile space with Android. It assumes that readers have a passable understanding of Java, including being able to write classes and handle basic inheritance structures. This book also targets hobbyists.

About the Author
Sayed Y. Hashimi is the author of Pro Android, as well as a consultant and trainer in Jacksonville, Florida. Sayed has worked for startups and Fortune 100 companies. He has developed large-scale distributed applications with a variety of programming languages and platforms, including C++, Java, and .NET. Sayed has published in major software journals on topics ranging from low-level programming techniques to high-level architecture concepts.

Satya Komatineni has been programming for over 20 years in the IT and Web space. He has had the opportunity to work with Assembly, C, C++, Rexx, Java, C#, Lisp, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SVG, Relational databases, Object databases and related technologies. He has published over 30 articles touching many of these areas in both in print and online. He has been a frequent speaker at O'Reilly Open Source Conference speaking on innovations around Java and Web.

Satya has done a considerable amount of original work in creating "Aspire", a comprehensive open sourced Java based web framework, and has explored personal web productivity and collaboration tools through his open sourced work for knowledgefolders.com.

Satya holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, India, and a Bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Andhra University, India.

Dave MacLean is a software engineer and architect currently living and working in Jacksonville, FL. He has programmed in many languages since 1980 developing systems ranging from robot automation systems to data warehousing, web self-service applications to EDI transaction processors.