Reviews for Android Essentials (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

1. Too basic

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2010

   With Android you need to have done Java before ideally. This book is too old and the information is to easy for someone with previous Java experience. "Hello, Android" is a far better book.

2. Essentials is an understatement

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, September 12st, 2008

   The title is appropriate as the book is very very brief.
   There are better books coming out and I would wait for those to be honest.
   Even the books author has another book coming out in late 2008 that is 4 times the size which will no doubt include this whole book inside it.
   The thing that peeved me most if some of the screenshot take up an entire page just to show an hello world example and it does this 4 times in quick succession!
   Also the font is large to pad out even more space so you really do get a very brief book with very little content.