Easy Microsoft Office� 2010

Want to get started building applications for Android, the world’s hottest, fast-growing mobile platform? Already building Android applications and want to get better at it? This book brings together all the expert guidance—and code—you’ll need!

Completely up-to-date to reflect the newest and most widely used Android SDKs, The Android Developer’s Cookbook is the essential resource for developers building apps for any Android device, from phones to tablets.

Proven, modular recipes take you from the absolute basics to advanced location-based services, security techniques, and performance optimization. You’ll learn how to write apps from scratch, ensure interoperability, choose the best solutions for common problems, and avoid development pitfalls. Coverage includes:

• Implementing threads, services, receivers, and other background tasks
• Providing user alerts
• Organizing user interface layouts and views
• Managing user-initiated events such as touches and gestures
• Recording and playing audio and video
• Using hardware APIs available on Android devices
• Interacting with other devices via SMS, web browsing, and social networking
• Storing data efficiently with SQLite and its alternatives
• Accessing location data via GPS
• Using location-related services such as the Google Maps API
• Building faster applications with native code
• Providing backup and restore with the Android Backup Manager
• Testing and debugging apps throughout the development cycle

Turn to The Android Developer’s Cookbook for proven, expert answers—and the code you need to implement them. It’s all you need to jumpstart any Android project, and create high-value, feature-rich apps that sell!

Providing concise and compelling examples Professional Android 2 Application Development is an updated and expanded guide that lets developers quickly construct real-world mobile applications for Android phones using version 2.1 of the Android SDK.

Some of the most important features introduced (or significantly revised for version 2) include:

• Creating widgets, Live Folders, and Live Wallpaper.
• Revised Bluetooth, telephony, and networking APIs.
• Revised Sensor API for using the accelerometer and compass.
• An updated look at how to create and use background Services and Alarms.
• Using the camera, microphone, and multimedia services
• An expanded look at external resources
• Using the new Contacts API

Microsoft Office 365 is a revolutionary technology that allows individuals and companies of all sizes to create and maintain a virtual office in the cloud. Featuring familiar Office Professional applications, web apps, Exchange Online, and Lync Online, Office 365 offers business professionals added flexibility and an easy way to work on the go. This friendly guide explains the cloud, how Office 365 takes advantage of it, how to use the various components, and the many possibilities offered by Office 365. It provides just what you need to know to get up and running with this exciting new technology.

• Examines how Microsoft Office 365 allows individual users and businesses to create a virtual office in the cloud, enabling workers to access its components anytime and from anywhere
• Explains the cloud landscape and how Office 365 uses the technology to provide instant access to e-mail, documents, calendars, and contacts while maintaining information security
• Covers each element of the Office 365 product, including Office Professional Plus, Exchange Online, SharePoint, and Lync Online
• Shows how to take advantage of collaboration, instant messaging, audio/video conferencing, and online productivity tools