Reviews for Android Wireless Application Development (Developer's Library)

1. Scratches the surface but no real depth

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, April 12th, 2010

   A book that tries to do too much by covering the full application lifecycle from concept to delivery.
   
   It offers a useful introduction to some of the newer features in the Android SDK 1.5 such as the camera, mapping and location based services.
   
   The coding examples do assume a high Java knowledge but are poorly executed and lack detail. The discussions on how Android handles major concepts such as threads, handlers, asynctask and file i/o are very weak. JDBC not even mentioned.
   
   I almost wonder if it would have been better if the authors had been eaten by lions in Kenya!