Download from Wow! eBook Programming Android Programming Android Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G Blake Meike, and Masumi Nakamura Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Kưln • Sebastopol • Tokyo About the Authors Zigurd Mednieks is a consultant to leading OEMs, enterprises, and entrepreneurial ventures creating Android-based systems and software Previously he was chief architect at D2 Technologies, a Voice over IP (VoIP) technology provider There he led engineering and product definition work for products that blended communication and social media in purpose-built embedded systems and on the Android platform Laird Dornin is a mobile development architect with extensive experience in Java, Android, J2ME, SavaJe, and the WebKit browser library He was a member of the J2SE development team at Sun Microsystems, specializing in Java RMI and Jini technology He is currently a senior engineer at a major wireless carrier, where he provides Android architectural guidance and Network API support to members of the carrier’s developer community G Blake Meike is a veteran developer with wide experience building Java applications for a range of mobile and server-side platforms With more than a decade of software engineering experience, Masumi Nakamura has worked in various positions within the mobile technology arena, from building out mobile infrastructure to founding his own mobile company He was one of the primary Android developers of the WHERE Android app and is now principal architect for the Big Data and Recommendations group at WHERE, Inc Outside of coding, he spends his time practicing Ba Gua Zhang and caring for his two cats Colophon The animal on the cover of Programming Android is a pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) A member of the finch family, these largest of the so-called “winter finches” can be found throughout the coniferous forests of the northern hemisphere: in Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia More rarely, during the winter some individuals stray as far south as the upper Midwest and New England portions of the United States, and on occasion even into temperate Europe Adult pine grosbeaks are rather distinctive looking Both males and females have long forked black tails and black wings with white wing bars The remainder of a male’s plumage is predominantly red, while females display an olive color on the head and rump and gray on the back and underside Conversely, colors on young pine grosbeaks are noticeably more subdued Pine grosbeaks feed mostly on vegetable matter, including the buds, seeds, and fruit of various varieties of tree, though they will also eat insects, and in fact prefer to feed such to their young Interestingly, breeding adults will develop pouches in the floor of its mouth specifically designed to carry this food back to the nest Download from Wow! eBook The cover image is from Johnson’s Natural History The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont’s TheSans Mono Condensed ... Download from Wow! eBook Programming Android Programming Android Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G Blake Meike, and Masumi Nakamura Beijing... media in purpose-built embedded systems and on the Android platform Laird Dornin is a mobile development architect with extensive experience in Java, Android, J2ME, SavaJe, and the WebKit browser... mobile infrastructure to founding his own mobile company He was one of the primary Android developers of the WHERE Android app and is now principal architect for the Big Data and Recommendations