Web Geek's Guide to the Android Enabled Phone

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1 edition (April 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789739720
• ISBN-13: 978-0789739728
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,694,313 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Product Description
The first guide to setting up, customizing, and creating new applications for Google's hot new Android enabled phone! - Expert insights for every early adopter of the new T-Mobile G1 and Google Android - a market expected to reach 2,000,000 users within one year! - Shows how to use all of the G1's power, and leverage the many built-in Google services it offers - Includes a practical introduction to developing new Google Android applications with Google's free, open source software development tools Summary After years of anticipation, Google's first phone, the T-Mobile G1, has just been introduced to enormous fanfare - and it's living up to the hype! Now, for the first time, there's a complete guide to using, customizing, and personalizing the T-Mobile G1...and writing applications for the powerful, open platform it's based on: Google Android. Expert Jerri Ledford takes power users and "Google geeks" under the hood with the T-Mobile G1 and Google Android, offering expert-level insights available in no other book. Readers will start with a thorough tour of the device, the design concepts and goals it was built upon, and the ways it integrates and builds on existing Google services - mobile and otherwise. Next, Ledford turns to applications: both the built-in applications that are preinstalled on the T-Mobile G1, and the amazing spectrum of innovative new applications that already being built with Google Android. Readers will find practical, simple introductions to Android's Contacts, Calendar, Alarm, Calculator, Camera, online capabilities, and much more. Finally, Ledford offers in-depth coverage of the Google Android platform itself, showing how to create new applications with Google's powerful, freely available Software Development Kit.