Poetry in Programming: Building Applications with the Android SDK

The key to this book is that it is a concoction of both basic and complex topics. The expression of ideas and distinctive style and rhythm of the authors is much like poetry for programming. This book does not focus on linear progression, as learning Android development does not generally begin linearly. This book, as well as our subsequent books, aim to simulate this erratic and broad learning pattern. It is also our goal to place special emphasis on the learning-by-doing approach. Each chapter will provide a fully functional application whose source code can be downloaded and examined for free! We not only tell you about programming concepts, we show them.

About the Authors

Leonard Tatum (Software Developer) has over a decade of programming and software development experience, with several additional years of developing mobile applications. Mentoring and education is highly valued by Mr. Tatum so it is no surprise that he has found a home at Age of Learning--an innovative technology company whose focus is to educate kids--where he currently works. In addition to working at Age of Learning, he is also CEO and Founder of the startup company, Tatum Games LLC. Tatum Games is a developer and publisher of mobile games focusing on developing gaming products in collaboration with their fanbase and communities. This unique approach allows users to make a direct impact in their gaming products and demonstrates that Tatum Games really cares about their customer needs. Tatum Games will release their first product, a collectible card game titled Heroes Vs Villains, end of 2015.

Arindam Pal (Coding Enthusiast) has donned multiple hats during his decade long career. He started off as a software engineer and moved on into business roles in the retail industry after completing his post graduation in Business. However, coding has always been his first love and Arindam always stayed in touch with his love through pet projects and such. He forayed into Android programming about one and half years back and has been hooked on ever since. Arindam currently runs an application targeted at Lawyers and also consults in the mobility space in India. He is also running a successful YouTube channel (semycolon) on Android tutorials for beginners along with a maintaining blog (semycolon.blogspot.in) on the same subject.