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Product type Book

Published in Aug 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785288951

Pages 412 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Android Development

Authors (3):

Emil Atanasov

Enrique López Mañas

Diego Grancini

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Android High Performance Programming

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Introduction: Why High Performance?

2. Efficient Debugging

3. Building Layouts

4. Memory

5. Multithreading

6. Networking

7. Security

8. Optimizing Battery Consumption

9. Native Coding in Android

10. Performance Tips

Index

Android Debug Bridge

Android Debug Bridge, more widely known as ADB, is a core tool for Android. It is included in the Android SDK, in the folder/platform tools. If you go to this folder and call the command adb, you will see on the screen a list of the available options.

Tip

If you haven't done this by now, this is a productivity tip that will pay off in probably the first minute working with ADB. Add to your PATH environmental variable the location where you have stored your Android SDK. From this moment, you will be able to call all the tools included within that folder from any part of your system.

With adb, we can perform multiple operations, including displaying devices, taking screenshots, or connecting to and disconnecting from different devices. It is not the purpose of this book to give a thorough review of each operation of a tool, but here, we present a list of the most common and useful functionalities of adb:

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Authors (3)

Emil Atanasov

Emil Atanasov is an IT consultant with broad experience in mobile technologies. He has been exploring the field of mobile development since 2006. Emil has a MSc in Media Informatics from RWTH Aachen University, Germany and a MSc in Computer Science from Sofia Unversity "St. Kliment Ohridsky", Bulgaria. He has worked for several huge USA companies and has been a freelancer for several years. Emil has experience in software design and development. He was involved in the process of redesigning, improving and creating a number of mobile apps. Currently, he is focused on the rapidly growing mobile sector and manages a great team of developers that provides software solutions to clients around the world. As an Android team leader and project manager, Emil was leading a team that was developing a part of the Nook Color firmware -a e-magazine/ e-book reader, which supports the proprietary Barnes & Nobel and some other e-book formats. He is one of the people behind the "Getting Started with Flurry Analytics" book. He also contributed largely to the book "Objective C Memory Management". "I want to thank my family and friends for being so cool. Thank you for supporting me even though I'm such a bizarre geeky person, who is spending most of the time in the digital world. Thank you, guys!"

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Enrique López Mañas

Enrique Lpez Maas is a Google Developer Expert and independent IT consultant. He has been working with mobile technologies and learning from them since 2007. He is an avid contributor to the open source community and a FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) kind of guy, being among the top 10 open source Java contributors in Germany. He is a part of the Google LaunchPad accelerator, where he participates in Google global initiatives to influence hundreds of the best startups from all around the globe. He is also a big data and machine learning aficionado. In his free time he rides his bike, take pictures, and travels until exhaustion. He also writes literature and enjoys all kinds of arts. He likes to write about himself in third person. You can follow him on Twitter (@eenriquelopez) to stay updated on his latest movements.

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Diego Grancini

Diego Grancini has a degree in telecommunications and IT engineering from Perugia University. He has developed his skills on Android development for more than six years leading and contributed to several projects, teaching and sharing his skills during his career. He joined Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.P.A. after his degree, defining his own knowledge about Java and Android development working as the lead Android developer for years. Then he joined J.P. Morgan & Chase, strengthening his skills about security and performance in software development and Android platform in particular.

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