Author: Bryan Bergeron Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional ISBN: 0071814051 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 334
Book Description
Create the next generation of AUTONOMOUS ANDROIDS! Construct self-governing 'droids that display physiologically correct behaviors. Co-written by experts in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and medicine, Androids: Build Your Own Lifelike Robots features low-cost DIY projects that translate human physiology into cybernetics. Teach your creations to maneuver with an arsenal of behaviors, respond to stimuli, talk, and listen. This practical, inventive guide even shows how to realistically simulate emotion and aging in your robots. Understand cybernetic and robotics principles Work with programmable microcontrollers Choose and wire sensors, actuators, and servos Program dazzling reflex arcs and behavior loops Enable your automatons to speak and hear Build beating hearts and limbs with flowing veins Create breathing patterns that respond to triggers Mimic humanoid feelings and facial expressions Use prototyping kits and testing devices
Author: Sean Liao Publisher: Apress ISBN: 1484200101 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 525
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Migrating to Android for iOS Developers gives you—as an experienced native iOS app developer—the skills to learn native Android apps development from scratch. Starting with preparing your Android integrated development environment and introducing just enough Android application framework fundamentals, you’ll understand how to create a simple but meaningful HelloAndroid project immediately. This book provides the guidelines and tutorial projects to show you how to translate your existing iOS app to the Android platform. You’ll use your mobile app knowledge to structure your Android apps in a similar way to how you would structure your iOS apps. To implement use cases with detailed screens, the most common mobile topics are discussed, including user interfaces, managing data, and networking with remote services. As you move through the book, you’ll create Android apps with rich UI components to handle common CRUD operations locally and remotely. There are many Android goodies described in the book. Instead of relying on routine text descriptions, you’ll discover the uniqueness of Android and appreciate the many features that are unique to the platform. This book also explores more powerful mobile UX patterns that are commonly used on the iOS and Android platforms. When you finish reading Migrating to Android for iOS Developers, you’ll be an Android developer as well as an iOS developer. And, you will be fully convinced you can do everything in Android that you can do in iOS.
Author: Clifton Craig Publisher: Apress ISBN: 1430266023 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 470
Book Description
Learn Android Studio covers Android Studio and its rich tools ecosystem, including Git and Gradle: this book covers how Android Studio works seamlessly with Git, for source control, and Gradle, a build and test tool. In addition, this book demonstrates how to develop/collaborate with remote Git web-hosting services such as GitHub and Bitbucket. Four complete Android projects accompany this volume and are available for download from a public Git repository. With this book, you learn the latest and most productive tools in the Android tools ecosystem, and the best practices for Android app development. You will be able to take away the labs' code as templates or frameworks to re-use and customize for your own similar apps. Android Studio is an intuitive, feature-rich, and extremely forgiving Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This IDE is more productive and easier to use for your Android app creations than Eclipse. With this book you will quickly master Android Studio and maximize your Android development time. Source code on the remote web-hosting service is targeted to the latest Android Studio release, version 1.2.
Author: Sanjay M. Mishra Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119050979 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 283
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Software Development/Mobile/Android/Wearable/Fitness Build "Wearable" Applications on the Android Wear and Google Fit Platforms This book covers wearable computing and wearable application development particularly for Android Wear (smartwatches) and Google Fit (fitness sensors). It provides relevant history, background and core concepts of wearable computing and ubiquitous computing, as a foundation for designing/developing applications for the Android Wear and Google Fit platforms. This book is intended for Android wearable enthusiasts, technologists and software developers. Gain insight into “wearables” in the modern consumer ecosystem of a multitude of devices, ubiquitous computing, cloud computing and intelligent personal assistants Learn the Android Wear and Google Fit APIs and jump-start hands-on development including: setting up an Android development environment suitable for Android Wear and Google Fit , setting up smartwatch and fitness devices for development and debugging , writing applications that install and execute on Android Wear (smartwatch) devices , and applications that run on your handheld Android devices and find and connect to fitness sensors and access fitness data, and more Catch up with the new Android 5.0 “Lollipop”, Android Studio and the gradle based build system Learn how to write applications for smart watches and fitness sensors on the Android/Google ecosystem. “Sanjay’s tome provides a comprehensive and timely treatment of the essential points of current Wearable technology and Android Wearable development techniques. The easygoing and comprehensive examples make this book a joy to discover and a delight to peruse. Highly recommended!” - Rudi Cilibrasi, Computer Scientist “The text provides a rich and immersive overview of the field of Wearable computing that is solidified by the impressive set of examples. I was simultaneously entertained as well as educated, and would highly recommend this book to anyone that is looking to get started with Wearables.” - Nathan Blair, Software Engineer & Entrepreneur Sanjay M. Mishra began programming in C on various flavors of Unix in the early 1990s. Over the years he has developed diverse software systems spanning web applications and services, messaging, VoIP, NoSQL databases, as well as mobile and embedded platforms. He has worked for companies such as Intertrust, Eyecon Technologies, CallSource, nVoc (formerly Sandcherry, Inc.) and the Starz Entertainment group.
Author: Casio Moonlander Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3752692006 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
SmokeStack is a Personal Chat Server - an Android Echo Server Application for the Chat Messenger Smoke which is known as worldwide the first mobile McEliece Messenger (McEliece, Fujisaka and Pointcheval). This Volume II is about the Chat Server SmokeStack. Volume I of the same author is about the referring Smoke Chat Messenger Client. This Open Source Technical Website Reference Documentation on paper addresses to students, teachers, and developers to create a Personal Chat Server on Android based on Java for learning and teaching purposes. The book introduces into TCP over Echo (TCPE), Cr. Discovery, FF Keys, an Argon2id key-derivation function, the Steam file transfer protocol and the Juggling Juggernaut Protocol for Juggernaut Keys, mobile Server Technologies, Ozone Postboxes and further topics.
Author: Milos Vasic Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd ISBN: 178847466X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 366
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Master Android development using a variety of Kotlin features About This Book Leverage specific features of Kotlin to ease Android application development An illustrative guide that will help you write code based Kotlin language to build robust Android applications Filled with various practical examples build amazing Android project using Kotlin so you can easily apply your knowledge to real world scenarios Who This Book Is For The book is for developers who want to build amazing Android applications in an easy and effective way. Basic knowledge of Kotlin is assumed, but you do not need any familiarity with Android development. What You Will Learn Understand the basics of Android development with Kotlin Get to know the key concepts in Android development See how to create modern mobile applications for the Android platform Adjust your application's look and feel Know how to persist and share application database Work with Services and other concurrency mechanisms Write effective tests Migrate an existing Java-based project to Kotlin In Detail Kotlin is a programming language intended to be a better Java, and it's designed to be usable and readable across large teams with different levels of knowledge. As a language, it helps developers build amazing Android applications in an easy and effective way. This book begins by giving you a strong grasp of Kotlin's features in the context of Android development and its APIs. Moving on, you'll take steps toward building stunning applications for Android. The book will show you how to set up the environment, and the difficulty level will grow steadily with the applications covered in the upcoming chapters. Later on, the book will introduce you to the Android Studio IDE, which plays an integral role in Android development. We'll use Kotlin's basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects, type parameterization, testing, and concurrency, which will guide you through writing Kotlin code into production. We'll also show you how to integrate Kotlin into any existing Android project. Style and approach In this book, you'll master Android development using Kotlin through real application examples. We'll introduce you to basic Android concepts and offer guidance from the first steps to the final project. In each chapter, we'll develop one important application functionality as a development milestone. As we progress, you'll become more experienced in Android and our application will progress toward a real-world product. Finally, when we complete the application's development, we'll write proper tests to ensure it's production ready.
Author: Abdul-Rahman Mawlood-Yunis Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030874591 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 640
Book Description
This textbook is about learning Android and developing native apps using the Java programming language. It follows Java and Object-Oriented (OO) programmers’ experiences and expectations and thus enables them to easily map Android concepts to familiar ones. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to one or more Android development topics and has one or more illustrating apps. The topics covered include activities and transitions between activities, Android user interfaces and widgets, activity layouts, Android debugging and testing, fragments, shared preferences, SQLite and firebase databases, XML and JSON processing, the content provider, services, message broadcasting, async task and threading, the media player, sensors, Android Google maps, etc. The book is intended for introductory or advanced Android courses to be taught in one or two semesters at universities and colleges. It uses code samples and exercises extensively to explain and clarify Android coding and concepts. It is written for students and programmers who have no prior Android programming knowledge as well as those who already have some Android programming skills and are excited to study more advanced concepts or acquire a deeper knowledge and understanding of Android programming. All the apps in the book are native Android apps and do not need to use or include third-party technologies to run.
Author: Dr.M.M Sharma Publisher: BPB Publications ISBN: 9387284735 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
DescriptionThis book is written to cover all the aspects of Android in a comprehensive way. Apart from the basics of Android, this book covers its various features like tools for development of app and applications of Android platform. It teaches everything you will need to know to successfully develop your own Android applications. The book addresses all the fundamentals including Intents, Activities user interfaces, SMS messaging, databases.It explains how to adapt to display orientation, user interface.It explains the various elements that go into designing your user interface using views such as TextView, EditText, ProgressBar, ListView etc.It shows how to display pictures.It shows how to use menus.It explains how to send and receive SMS.It explains how to create service which runs in the background. ContentsGetting Started with Androido What is androido Glimpse of Android versionso Architecture of Androido Android SDKo Android Studioo Creating First Hello Appo Anatomy of Android ApplicationUnderstanding Activities and IntentsActivity ConceptLifecycle of ActivityConcept of IntentLinking two ActivitiesKnowing User InterfaceView and View GroupsLayoutsAndroid Constraint Layout ExampleBasic Controls of ScreenManaging OrientationControlling OrientationDesigning User InterfaceUsing Basic ViewsTextViewButton, ImageButton, EditText, CheckBox, ToggleButton and RadioGroupEvent Handling of ViewsProgressBar ViewPicker ViewsListViewImage Views and Grid Viewo Gallery and ImageViewo Using GridView to show imageso WebViewWorking with MenusOptions MenuContext MenuPopup MenuCreating Options MenuCreating Context MenuCreating Popup MenuData PersistenceSaving and Loading by using SharedPreferenceRead and write files in external and internal storage of memoryData Storage using SQLiteSending SMS using APPo Sending SMSo Sending SMS using SMSManagero Sending SMS by using using built in SMS Applicationo Receiving SMS Messageso Sending Email using appAndroid ServicesStartedBoundLife Cycle of Service
Author: Ashok Kumar S Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1788624254 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
Firebase is a completely scalable, real-time backend service and provides all the tools necessary to develop rich, collaborative applications using client side code. This books will take deep dive into the features of Firebase by exploring its complete toolchain.
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