Application Development Tutorials

If you're an aspiring or beginning programmer interested in creating apps for the Android market—which grows in size and downloads every day—this is your comprehensive, one-stop guide. Android Application Development All-in-One For Dummies covers the information you absolutely need to get started developing apps for Android. Inside, you'll quickly get up to speed on Android programming concepts and put your new knowledge to use to manage data, program cool phone features, refine your applications, navigate confidently around the Android native development kit, and add important finishing touches to your apps.

Covering the latest features and enhancements to the Android Software Developer's Kit, this friendly, hands-on guide walks you through Android programming basics, shares techniques for developing great Android applications, reviews Android hardware, and much more.

• All programming examples, including the sample application, are available for download from the book's website
• Information is carefully organized and presented in an easy-to-follow format
• 800+ pages of content make this an invaluable resource at an unbeatable price
• Written by an expert Java educator, Barry Burd, who authors the bestselling Java For Dummies

Go from Android newbie to master programmer in no time with the help of Android Application Development All-in-One For Dummies!

The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on how we develop as individuals. Emphasizing the theories that build upon the developmental tradition established by Rousseau, this text also covers theories in the environmental/learning tradition.

Learn to design, develop, train, and deploy TensorFlow and Keras models as real-world applications

Key Features

• Focus on neural network and its essential operations
• Prepare data for a deep learning model and deploy it as an interactive web application, with Flask and a HTTP API
• Use Keras, a TensorFlow abstraction library

Book Description

With this book, you'll learn how to train, evaluate and deploy Tensorflow and Keras models as real-world web applications. After a hands-on introduction, you'll use a sample model to explore the details of deep learning, selecting the right layers that can solve a given problem. By the end of the course, you'll build a Bitcoin application that predicts the future price, based on historic, and freely available information.

This book will also provide you with a blueprint for how to build an application that generates predictions using a deep learning model. From there, you can continue to improve our example model― either by adding more data, computing more features, or changing its architecture―continuously increasing its prediction accuracy, or create a completely new model, changing the core components of the application as you see fit.

What you will learn

• Set up a deep learning programming environment
• Explore the common components of a neural network and its essential operations
• Prepare data for a deep learning model
• Deploy model as an interactive web application, with Flask and a HTTP API
• Use Keras, a TensorFlow abstraction library
• Explore the types of problems addressed by neural networks

Who This Book Is For

This course is ideal for experienced developers, analysts, or a data scientists, who want to develop applications using TensorFlow and Keras. This rapid hands-on course quickly shows you how to get to grips with TensorFlow in the context of real-world application development. We assume that you are familiar with Python and have a basic knowledge of web application development. If you have a background in linear algebra, probability, and statistics, you will easily grasp concepts that are discussed in the course.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning
2. Model Architecture
3. Model Evaluation and Optimization
4. Productization

What Every Android App Developer Should Know Today: Android 6 Tools, App/UI Design, Testing, Publishing, and More

 

Introduction to Android ™ Application Development, Fifth Edition , is the most useful real-world guide to building robust, commercial-grade Android apps with the new Android 6 SDK, Android Studio, and latest development best practices. Bigger, better, and more comprehensive than ever, this book covers everything you need to start developing professional apps for modern Android devices. If you’re serious about Android development, this guide will prepare you to build virtually any app you can imagine!

 

Three well-respected experts guide you through setting up your development environment, designing user interfaces, developing for diverse devices, and optimizing your entire app-development process. Up-to-date code listings support in-depth explanations of key API features, and many chapters contain multiple sample apps.

 

This fifth edition adds brand-new chapters on material design, styling applications, design patterns, and querying with SQLite. You’ll find a treasure trove of Android Studio tips, plus a brand-new appendix on the Gradle build system. This edition also offers

• Updated coverage of the latest Android 5.1 and 6 APIs, tools, utilities, and best practices
• New coverage of the Android 6.0 permission model
• Powerful techniques for integrating material design into your apps
• An all-new chapter on using styles and reusing common UI components
• Extensive new coverage of app design, architecture, and backward compatibility
• A full chapter on using SQLite with persistent database-backed app data
• Revised quiz questions and exercises to test your knowledge 

Download this book’s source code at informit.com/title/9780134389455 or introductiontoandroid.blogspot.com.

This Seventh Edition of Robert Lussier’s bestselling Management Fundamentals presents essential management themes through a three-pronged approach focused on concepts, applications, and skill building. Through a variety of applications, Lussier challenges millennials to think critically and apply concepts to their own experiences. Proven skill-building exercises, behavioral models, self-assessments, and individual and group exercises help students to develop their personal and professional skills. Fully updated throughout with 97% new references and over 1,200 new company examples, the Seventh Edition features 50% new cases, new self-assessments, and new applications and new coverage of current topics mandated by the AACSB.

 

Build, design, and style beautiful and informative applications on the Salesforce platform

Key Features

• Build a multi-platform application from scratch
• Make use of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to build custom components
• Create apps visually using Lightning components

Book Description

Built on the Salesforce App Cloud, the new Lightning Experience combines the three major components: Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components to provide an enhanced Salesforce experience. This book will enable you to quickly create modern, enterprise apps with Lightning.

You will start by building simple Lighnting components and understanding the Lightning component architecture. Then you will build, test and debug Lightning components.

The chapters cover real world practical use cases for building Lightning components for Salesforce Lightning experience , Salesforce1 Mobile Application, or Salesforce Communities. The later chapters focus on performance tuning and how to take these components onto the Salesforce AppExchange.

What you will learn

• Understand Lightning component architecture
• Learn Locker security best practices
• Master the Lightning component framework architecture
• Debug and Improve performance of your Lightning components
• Use third party libraries along with the component framework
• Learn how to publish Lightning components on AppExchange
• Use Lightning Out to take your Lightning components outside the Salesforce platform

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Salesforce developers or developers from other platforms who are familiar with HTML, CSS and JavaScript and want to build and test Salesforce Lightning components. No knowledge of Salesforce Lightning is required.