If you insist on using a screwdriver as a hammer, of course you will complain about the quality of the hammer: you ask about REFERENCE books, but neither of the books you cite are meant as reference books.
As for why there is such a shortage of reference books, that is because the best reference is not a book, it is the online reference Google maintains at http://developer.android.com. No book publishing cycle can possibly keep up fast enough to compete with that -- as a reference. The books are good for explaining things that references do not even try to include. The books on Android from Wrox, Manning , O'Reilly, Pragmatic Programmer's and yes, Commonware all do this. Besides: no book titled "...Development in 24 hours" should be taken seriously. Even though the best of them really do cram an amazing amount of material in a mere 24 hours worth, 24 hours is simply unreasonably short: there is no way Android development could be taught in 24 hours. On Jul 15, 12:44 pm, DanH <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there one? I have "Professional Android 2 Application Development" > by Meier and "Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 > Hours" by Darcy/Conder. Both are mediocre at best. > > Neither is a decent REFERENCE, but rather they are basically > structured as tutorials, without nothing in the way of reasonably > comprehensive API documentation (which also, BTW, is woefully > inadequate on the android.com site). And no sort of in-depth > discussion of the structure of the system, so one could perhaps > understand it rather than simply using the (inadequate) cookbooks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
