Android Resources

Presentations

• A JIT Compiler for Android’s Dalvik VM
  by Ben Cheng, Bill Buzbee, May 2010

Blogs

• The Android Developer's Blog has interesting blog posts from Android people like Xavier Ducrohet (Android SDK Tech Lead), Rich Cannings (Android Security Lead), and others.
• Android's questions at stackoverflow.com

Books

My favorite books are:

• Android in Practice
  Charlie Collins, Michael D. Galpin, and Matthias Käppler (October 2011)
  Manning (ISBN: 978-1-935182-92-4)
  Great book ! The over 90 programming techniques are exposed systematically and are demonstrated with comprehensive and practical Android sample applications.
• Learning Android
  by Marko Gargenta, March 2011 (1^st Ed.)
  O'Reilly (ISBN: 978-1-449-39050-1)
  Another great book ! Following the design philosophy smalls increments, always whole and complete, refactoring code the author guides us through the development of a comprehensive and familiar application called Yamba, a Twitter-like application.
• Unlocking Android
  by Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins and Robi Sen, May 2009
  Manning (ISBN: 978-1-933988-67-2)

Other Android books are:

• Android in Action
  by Frank Abelson, Robi Sen and Chris King, 2011 (2^nd Ed.)
  Manning (ISBN: 978-1-935182-72-6)
• Android User Interface Development
  by Jason Morris, February 2011 (1^st Ed.)
  Packt Publishing (ISBN: 978-1-849514-48-4)
• Practical Android Projects
  by Lucas Jordan and Pieter Greyling, February 2011 (1^st Ed.)
  APress (ISBN: 978-1-4302-3244-5)
• Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  by Jonathan Stark, September 2010 (1^st Ed.)
  O'Reilly (ISBN: 978-1-449-38326-8)
• Hello, Android!
  by Ed Burnette, July 2010 (3rd Ed.)
  The Pragmatic Bookshelf (ISBN: 978-1-93435-656-2)
• Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Yours
  by Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder, June 2010 (1st Ed.)
  Sams (ISBN: 978-0-321-67335-0)
• Professional Android™ Application Development
  by Reto Meier, October 2009 (1^st Ed.)
  Wiley (ISBN: 978-0-470-34471-2)
• Pro Android 2
  by Sayed Hashimi, Satya Komatineni and Dave MacLean, 2010
  Apress (ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-2659-8)
• Beginning Android 2
  by Mark L. Murphy, March 2010
  Apress (ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-2629-1)
• The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development
  by Mark L. Murphy, August 2008
  CommonsWare, LLC (ISBN: 978-0-9816780-0-9)
• Android™ A Programmer’s Guide
  by Jerome F. DiMarzo, 2008
  McGraw-Hill (ISBN: 0-07-159988-6, DOI: 10.1036/0071599886)
• Android Essentials (Online PDF Book)
  by Chris Haseman, July 2008
  Apress's firstPress series (ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-1064-1)
  Chris is doing all his development on Mac OS X with Eclipse; chapters 2 to 5 (from 6) present basic examples based on Android 1.5.

Tools

• dedexer is a free disassembler tool for Android DEX files. The purpose is to create Jasmin-like source files from DEX files.
• ProGuard is a free Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. ProGuard 4.4 is part of the Android SDK since version 2.3. We use it in the above Android examples written in Scala.
• smali is a free assembler/disassembler for .dex files.