by William Kennedy with Brian Ketelsen, Erik St. Martin
Application development can be tricky enough even when you aren't dealing with complex systems programming problems like web-scale concurrency and real-time performance. While it's possible to solve these common issues with additional tools and frameworks, Go handles them right out of the box, making for a more natural and productive coding experience. Developed at Google, Go powers nimble startup...
Price: $30.00 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
by Raymond K. Camden
Apache Cordova in Action teaches you how to design, create, and launch hybrid mobile apps people will want to use. With the help of straightforward, real-world examples, you'll learn to build apps from the Cordova CLI and to make use of native device features like the camera and accelerometer. You'll learn testing techniques and discover the PhoneGap Build service and how to submit your apps to Go...
Price: $22.09 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
Corona SDK Mobile Game Development, 2nd Edition 
by Michelle M. Fernandez
Corona is a software development kit to build mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.This book will take you through the journey of developing games right from installing Corona SDK and creating Hello World as your first app. Going further, you will learn how to script in Lua and learn some techniques to apply this in Corona SDK with demonstration. Towards the end of the book you'll ...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Vineeth Mohan
Elasticsearch is a distributed search server similar to Apache Solr with a focus on large datasets, schemaless setup, and high availability. Utilizing the Apache Lucene library (also used in Apache Solr), Elasticsearch enables powerful full-text search, as well as autocomplete "morelikethis" search, multilingual functionality, and an extensive search query DSL.This book starts with the cre...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Prabath Siriwardena
Maven is the #1 build tool used by developers and it has been around for more than a decade. Maven stands out among other build tools due to its extremely extensible architecture, which is built on of the concept of convention over configuration. It's widely used by many open source Java projects under Apache Software Foundation, Sourceforge, Google Code, and more.Maven Essentials is a fast-paced guide...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Unity Virtual Reality Projects
by Jonathan Linowes
What is consumer "virtual reality"? Wearing a head-mounted display you view stereoscopic 3D scenes. You can look around by moving your head, and walk around using hand controls or motion sensors. You are engaged in a fully immersive experience. On the other hand, Unity is a powerful game development engine that provides a rich set of features such as visual lighting, materials, physics, audio, spe...
Price: $25.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
FREE EBOOK - Learning Java by Building Android Games
by John Horton
Android is the fastest growing operating system (OS) with one of the largest installed bases of any mobile OS. Android uses one of the most popular programming languages, Java, as the primary language for building apps of all types. So, you should first obtain a solid grasp of the Java language and its foundation APIs to improve the chances of succeeding as an Android app developer.This book will show you h...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Francesco Marchioni
The NoSQL movement is growing in relevance, attracting more and more developers. The MongoDB database is a well-recognized rising star in the NoSQL world. It is a document database that allows data persistence and enables you to query data in a nested state without any schema constraints and complex joins between documents.This book provides all the knowledge you need to make MongoDB fit into your applicati...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Mike van Drongelen
This book starts with an introduction of Android Studio and why you should use this IDE rather than Eclipse. Moving ahead, it teaches you to build a simple app that requires no backend setup but uses Google Cloud or Parse instead. After that, you will learn how to create an Android app that can send and receive text and images using Google Cloud or Parse as a backend. It explains the concepts of Material de...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Eric Pimpler
This book is an immersive guide to take your ArcGIS Desktop application development skills to the next levelIt starts off by providing detailed description and examples of how to create ArcGIS Desktop Python toolboxes that will serve as containers for many of the applications that you will build. We provide several practical projects that involve building a local area/community map and extracting wildfire d...
Price: $54.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015