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Beginning Android (Expert's Voice in Open Source) ReviewI had high hopes for this book - I've used many a press books before for picking up new languages and technologies. The book began good and the first couple demos were useful, but then things kind of fell apart.There are basically two pedagogical approaches that these sorts of books take: teach by example or teach by exercise. In the former, you learn by rote repetition typing of the projects listed -- in the latter you put your knowledge to use by solving instructional problems. Books like these tend towards the former while classroom books tend towards the latter.
This book begins with some teaching by example, showing fully functional code that you can re-create on your own to see how things work. But then after that, he resorts to just showing what is POSSIBLE with Android, but does not provide complete working code. Unless, of course, you count the downloadable code from the a press website, which the author relies heavily on. But if you are simply loading up working code written by someone else, rather than typing it out, there is not much learning happening. (If the author simply wished to save on paper and thus cut costs, perhaps some exercises / practice problems would have been a good substitute)
The book version that I had read used obsolete versions of Android, as well -- and did not use the Eclipse Android Development Toolkit, either.
Considering that this book is listed as "Beginning", one would expect some more hand-holding and less rapid exploration of features. The material is not really arranged in a way that would lend itself to being used a reference book -- it seems to sit square in the middle between pedagogical and referential.
Beginning Android programmers may find better starting material on the android developer site (developer.[...]), or in other books. I do not recommend this one.Beginning Android (Expert's Voice in Open Source) Overview
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