The fast-growing popularity of Android smartphones and tablets creates a huge opportunity for developers. If you’re an experienced developer, you can start creating robust mobile Android apps right away with this professional guide.<\/p>\n
This book helps you learn to master the design, lifecycle, and UI of an Android app through practical exercises, which you can then use as a basis for developing your own Android apps.<\/p>\n
The Android Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA.<\/p>\n
Android<\/b>\u00a0is a\u00a0mobile operating system<\/a>\u00a0based on a modified version of the\u00a0Linux kernel<\/a>\u00a0and other\u00a0open-source<\/a>\u00a0software, designed primarily for\u00a0touchscreen<\/a>\u00a0mobile devices such as\u00a0smartphones<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0tablets<\/a>. Android is developed by a consortium of developers known as the\u00a0Open Handset Alliance<\/a>, though its most widely used version is primarily developed by\u00a0Google<\/a>. It was unveiled in November 2007, with the first commercial Android device, the\u00a0HTC Dream<\/a>, being launched in September 2008.<\/p>\n At its core, the operating system is known as Android Open Source Project (AOSP)<\/sup>\u00a0and is\u00a0free and open-source software<\/a>\u00a0(FOSS) primarily licensed under the\u00a0Apache License<\/a>. However, most devices run on the proprietary<\/a> Android version developed by Google, which ship with additional proprietary closed-source software pre-installed, most notably\u00a0Google Mobile Services<\/a> (GMS)<\/sup>\u00a0which includes core apps such as\u00a0Google Chrome<\/a>, the\u00a0digital distribution<\/a>\u00a0platform\u00a0Google Play<\/a>, and the associated\u00a0Google Play Services<\/a>\u00a0development platform. While AOSP is free, the “Android” name and logo are\u00a0trademarks<\/a>\u00a0of Google, which imposes standards to restrict the use of Android branding by “uncertified” devices outside their ecosystem.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"