Beginning Android Games, 2nd Edition 
by Mario Zechner, Robert Green
Beginning Android Games, Second Edition offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers, including Android tablet game app development considerations. You'll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and playable game apps that work on Android and earlier version compliant smartphones and ...
Price: $17.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
Android Apps for Absolute Beginners, 2nd Edition 
by Wallace Jackson
Anybody can start building simple apps for the Android platform, and this book will show you how! Recently updated to include Android Jelly Bean, Android Apps for Absolute Beginners, 2nd Edition takes you through the process of getting your first Android apps up and running using plain English and practical examples.This book cuts through the fog of jargon and mystery that surrounds Android apps development...
Price: $3.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
by Onur Cinar
Android is one of the major players in the mobile phone market. Android is a mobile platform that is built on the top of Linux operating system. The native-code support on Android offers endless opportunities to application developers, not limited the functionality that is provided by Android framework. Pro Android C++ with the NDK is an advanced tutorial and professional reference for today's more sop...
Price: $30.54 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
by Peter Brinkmann
Want to turn your mobile device into a musical instrument? Or equip your game with interactive audio, rather than canned samples? You can do it with Pure Data (Pd), an open source visual programming environment that lets you manipulate digital audio in real time. This concise book shows you how to use Pd - with help from the libpd library - as an easily embeddable and widely portable sound engine.Whether yo...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Programming Android, 2nd Edition
by Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, Masumi Nakamura
Get thoroughly up to speed on Android programming, and learn how to create up-to-date user experiences for both handsets and tablets. With this book's extensively revised second edition, you'll focus on Android tools and programming essentials, including best practices for using Android 4 APIs. If you're experienced with Java or Objective-C, you'll gain the knowledge necessary for buildi...
Price: $15.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap
by Jamie Munro
Gain hands-on experience with the amazing PhoneGap library, using the practical recipes in this handy guide. With these solutions, you can enable your mobile web apps to interact with device-specific features such as the accelerometer, GPS, camera, and address book. Learn how to use your knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build full mobile apps for iOS, Android, and several other platforms without re...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Greg Shackles
It's true: you can build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone with C# and the .NET Framework - with help from MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This hands-on guide shows you how to reuse one codebase across all three platforms by combining the business logic layer of your C# app with separate, fully native UIs. It's an ideal marriage of platform-specific development and the "writ...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Making Android Accessories with IOIO
by Simon Monk
Create your own electronic devices with the popular IOIO ("yoyo") board, and control them with your Android phone or tablet. With this concise guide, you'll get started by building four example projects - after that, the possibilities for making your own fun and creative accessories with Android and IOIO are endless.To build Android / IOIO devices, you write the program on your comput...
Price: $5.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Sylvain Ratabouil
Create high performance applications with C/C++ and integrate with Java. Exploit advanced Android features such as graphics, sound, input and sensing. Port and reuse your own or third-party libraries from the prolific C/C++ ecosystem....
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2012
by Mike Riley
Open locked doors using your smartphone. Assemble a bird feeder that posts Twitter tweets to tell you when the birds are feeding or when bird seed runs low. Have your home speak to you when you receive email, notify you when visitors arrive, and more.You'll learn how to use Android smartphones, Arduinos, X10 controllers and a wide array of sensors, servos, programming languages, web frameworks, and mob...
Price: $15.15 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2012