The Android ecosystem An open source platform for mobile, embedded and wearable devices Google is the principle maintainer Other companies contribute to the system. Each device manufacturer can …

Eclipse and Android Studio are the two supported integrated develop-ment environments (IDEs) for Android development, and you need only one to follow along with the examples in this book.

Android offers a unified approach to application development for mobile devices which means developers need only develop for Android, and their applications should be able to run on different …

Faceless tasks that run in the background. Enable applications to share data.

To meet the Android developer verification requirements, all Android apps must be registered to a developer with a verified identity, including apps distributed via Google Play.

Android was unveiled in 2007, along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance – a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for …

Android is a layered software framework The fourth layer are actual Android apps and services These applications are executed by the Dalvik virtual machine, essentially a Java virtual machine but with …