Download or read book Androids Rule written by J. Duggan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09-09 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smiling android female on the saucer terminal's video screen said, "Would you like to be immortal? Would you like to be rich? Would you like to travel the galaxy? You can, you know. Go on-line, fill out Mincom's new EZ employment form, and become part of our management team. We will provide everything, including your own, custom-fitted android body." The smiling face was very convincing. Yeah, thought Max Mars, convincing. Be immortal. Get a new body and be guaranteed a trip to the most desolate planets in the universe, to mine heavy ice for four Earth years with just enough down-time to recharge your batteries. But Mars wasn't too concerned for the humans who fell for that old ploy. He had problems of his own. He was low on cash, so he had taken a job he normally would have turned down. Just travel to the Rim, to planet Kalos, and find a rich man's relatives. They had been missing-only seven years.
Download or read book The Junkyard Bot written by C. J. Richards and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worker robots keep the high-tech town of Terabyte Heights humming, but ten-year-old George Gearing is the only one who has a robot for a best friend. When his scrappy but beloved pal Jackbot is hit by a car, the whiz kid re-engineers him with fancy parts from state-of-the-art TinkerTech Laboratories. Jackbot’s astounding new skills far exceed anything George—or even TinkerTech’s head of robotics—could ever have imagined. Will the villainous Dr. Micron destroy the whole town to see his tech-driven dream realized? Not if George can help it . . .
Download or read book Android Security Internals written by Nikolay Elenkov and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more than one billion Android devices in use today, each one a potential target. Unfortunately, many fundamental Android security features have been little more than a black box to all but the most elite security professionals—until now. In Android Security Internals, top Android security expert Nikolay Elenkov takes us under the hood of the Android security system. Elenkov describes Android security architecture from the bottom up, delving into the implementation of major security-related components and subsystems, like Binder IPC, permissions, cryptographic providers, and device administration. You’ll learn: –How Android permissions are declared, used, and enforced –How Android manages application packages and employs code signing to verify their authenticity –How Android implements the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) and Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) frameworks –About Android’s credential storage system and APIs, which let applications store cryptographic keys securely –About the online account management framework and how Google accounts integrate with Android –About the implementation of verified boot, disk encryption, lockscreen, and other device security features –How Android’s bootloader and recovery OS are used to perform full system updates, and how to obtain root access With its unprecedented level of depth and detail, Android Security Internals is a must-have for any security-minded Android developer.
Download or read book The Age of Em written by Robin Hanson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think that the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ""ems."" Robin Hanson draws on decades of expertise in economics, physics, and computer science to paint a detailed picture of this next great era in human (and machine) evolution - the age of em.
Download or read book Androids written by Chet Haase and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating inside story of how the Android operating system came to be. In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen. Androids: The Team that Built the Android Operating System is a first-hand chronological account of how the startup began, how the team came together, and how they all built an operating system from the kernel level to its applications and everything in between. It describes the tenuous beginnings of this ambitious project as a tiny startup, then as a small acquisition by Google that took on an industry with strong, entrenched competition. Author Chet Haase joined the Android team at Google in May 2010 and later recorded conversations with team members to preserve the early days of Android's history leading to the launch of 1.0. This engaging and accessible book captures the developers' stories in their own voices to answer the question: How did Android succeed?
Download or read book Firebase Essentials Android Edition written by Neil Smyth and published by Payload Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clean Architecture for Android written by Eran Boudjnah and published by BPB Publications. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architect an android application independent of UI, databases and frameworks KEY FEATURES ● Find out why Clean Architecture is so beneficial for Android development. ● Learn the principles of clean architecture and see how you can implement them in your next project. ● Leverage unit and end-to-end testing to boost the quality of your Android projects. DESCRIPTION "Clean Architecture for Android" was written to help developers apply Clean Architecture to their projects. The book will explain why Clean Architecture is so valuable. It will demonstrate how you can use this architecture to build more reliable and extensible apps. It will also show you how Clean Architecture helps ensure your projects are easy to maintain. This book will explain the structure and functions at each level of the architecture. It will show you how to integrate Clean Architecture into your project and gradually transition from your current architecture to the new one. Finally, it will demonstrate how to apply the various Clean Architecture concepts by practicing and demonstrating their value. If you are new to creating Android apps, this book will give you the foundational knowledge you need to start creating apps using Clean Architecture. It will walk you through the process of dissecting requirements into the Clean Architecture layers. It will then teach you how to implement every one of these layers. As a result, your development process would speed up in the long run and will produce a high quality product. Having a high percentage of your code tested is also beneficial, which is why in this book you will also learn how to test your app. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Build an Android application from the ground up using the Clean Architecture standard. ● Transform an existing application into clean architecture-based business software. ● Methods and approaches for introducing the novel functionality. ● Learn to perform class-based testing for a clean architecture application. ● Conduct full-stack testing to ensure your software works as planned. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book caters to Android developers of all skill levels, as well as Kotlin programmers and mobile app developers. The reader doesn't need to have a solid knowledge of Kotlin, but it is preferred to be known. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Clean Architecture Principles 3. Clean Architecture in Android 4. Unit Testing 5. End-to-End Testing 6. Failures and Exceptions 7. Implementing a New Feature 8. Migrating An Existing Project 9. Other Bits and Bobs Appendix: Project Setup
Download or read book Intelligence artificielle written by Monsieur Eric Canal Forgues Alter and published by Bruylant. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Et si l’intelligence artificielle nous était contée ? Intelligence artificielle – Défis & perspectives a été conçu comme une invitation à découvrir cette révolution technologique et intellectuelle dont les avatars ne sont ni entièrement connus ni sans doute proprement maîtrisés. Si le concept a d’ores et déjà intégré l’imaginaire commun sous bien des formes, il soulève de véritables enjeux juridiques, éthiques et sociétaux que cet ouvrage collectif se propose d’aborder de façon non totalement linéaire, préférant au jardin à la française les arrangements subtilement décalés des espaces verts d’outre-Manche. Tout en permettant d’initier le lecteur à des domaines d’application variés et novateurs et de montrer combien l’intelligence artificielle fait désormais partie de notre quotidien, cet ouvrage apporte des réflexions prospectives sur les évolutions attendues ou souhaitées dans son domaine d’élection. Il reste à espérer qu’à sa lecture, le lecteur voudra bien adhérer à l’idée que l’intelligence artifi cielle peut rester un formidable outil au service du progrès et non constituer une création susceptible à terme de détruire son humanité.
Download or read book Android Espresso Revealed written by Denys Zelenchuk and published by Apress. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Write Android user interface (UI) tests using Google Espresso for Android. You’ll cover all the major topics of writing functional UI automated tests using the Espresso testing framework, including different ways of running automated tests, architecting test projects in an easy and maintainable way, and using tools which help to implement automated tests with less effort. Android Espresso Revealed explains the basics of using Espresso to write automated UI tests, and how to customize the framework for advanced functionality. The author provides examples in both Java and Kotlin, and includes dealing with network operations in UI tests, testing application accessibility, implementing supervised monkey tests, and more. What You Will LearnWrite Espresso tests with both Kotlin and Java including test project migration from Java to Kotlin Test web views inside the application under test Use Espresso to set up test devices or emulators to minimize test flakiness and run tests in Firebase Test LabVerify and stub intents with Espresso-IntentsMove test projects to AndroidX Test notifications or operate on third-party apps during Espresso test execution Apply different test architecture approaches to the test project to reduce maintenance effort Implement supervised monkey tests using Espresso and UIAutomator Who This Book Is ForEngineers with experience of Android test automation will benefit from this book
Download or read book Fun and Software written by Olga Goriunova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun and Software offers the untold story of fun as constitutive of the culture and aesthetics of computing. Fun in computing is a mode of thinking, making and experiencing. It invokes and convolutes the question of rationalism and logical reason, addresses the sensibilities and experience of computation and attests to its creative drives. By exploring topics as diverse as the pleasure and pain of the programmer, geek wit, affects of play and coding as a bodily pursuit of the unique in recursive structures, Fun and Software helps construct a different point of entry to the understanding of software as culture. Fun is a form of production that touches on the foundations of formal logic and precise notation as well as rhetoric, exhibiting connections between computing and paradox, politics and aesthetics. From the formation of the discipline of programming as an outgrowth of pure mathematics to its manifestation in contemporary and contradictory forms such as gaming, data analysis and art, fun is a powerful force that continues to shape our life with software as it becomes the key mechanism of contemporary society. Including chapters from leading scholars, programmers and artists, Fun and Software makes a major contribution to the field of software studies and opens the topic of software to some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary theory.
Download or read book Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack written by Michael Fazio and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start building native Android apps the modern way in Kotlin with Jetpack's expansive set of tools, libraries, and best practices. Learn how to create efficient, resilient views with Fragments and share data between the views with ViewModels. Use Room to persist valuable data quickly, and avoid NullPointerExceptions and Java's verbose expressions with Kotlin. You can even handle asynchronous web service calls elegantly with Kotlin coroutines. Achieve all of this and much more while building two full-featured apps, following detailed, step-by-step instructions.With Kotlin and Jetpack, Android development is now smoother and more enjoyable than ever before. Dive right in by developing two complete Android apps. With the first app, Penny Drop, you create a full game complete with random die rolls, customizable rules, and AI opponents. Build lightweight Fragment views with data binding, quickly and safely update data with ViewModel classes, and handle all app navigation in a single location. Use Kotlin with Android-specific Kotlin extensions to efficiently write null-safe code without all the normal boilerplate required for pre-Jetpack + Kotlin apps. Persist and retrieve data as full objects with the Room library, then display that data with ViewModels and list records in a RecyclerView. Next, you create the official app for the Android Baseball League. It's a fake league but a real app, where you use what you learn in Penny Drop and build up from there. Navigate all over the app via a Navigation Drawer, including specific locations via Android App Links. Handle asynchronous and web service calls with Kotlin Coroutines, display that data smoothly with the Paging library, and send notifications to a user's phone from your app. Come build Android apps the modern way with Kotlin and Jetpack! What You Need: You'll need the Android SDK, a text editor, and either a real Android device or emulator for testing. While not strictly required, it's assumed you're using Android Studio, which comes with the Android SDK and simplifies creating an emulator. Also, a few examples require JDK 1.8 or later, though all of these pieces can be completed in other ways when using JDK 1.6.
Download or read book Beginning Android 4 written by Mark Murphy and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Android 4 is an update to Beginning Android 3, originally written by Mark Murphy. It is your first step on the path to creating marketable apps for the burgeoning Android Market, Amazon's Android Appstore, and more. Google’s Android operating-system has taken the industry by storm, going from its humble beginnings as a smartphone operating system to its current status as a platform for apps that run across a gamut of devices from phones to tablets to netbooks to televisions, and the list is sure to grow. Smart developers are not sitting idly by in the stands, but are jumping into the game of creating innovative and salable applications for this fast-growing, mobile- and consumer-device platform. If you’re not in the game yet, now is your chance! Beginning Android 4 is fresh with details on the latest iteration of the Android platform. Begin at the beginning by installing the tools and compiling a skeleton app. Move through creating layouts, employing widgets, taking user input, and giving back results. Soon you’ll be creating innovative applications involving multi-touch, multi-tasking, location-based feature sets using GPS. You’ll be drawing data live from the Internet using web services and delighting your customers with life-enhancing apps. Not since the PC era first began has there been this much opportunity for the common developer. What are you waiting for? Grab your copy of Beginning Android 4 and get started!
Download or read book Beginning Android 2 written by Mark Murphy and published by Apress. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Android development platform, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, is a platform in its truest sense, encompassing hundreds of classes beyond the traditional Java classes and open source components that ship with the SDK. With Beginning Android 2, you’ll learn how to develop applications for Android 2.x mobile devices, using simple examples that are ready to run with your copy of the software development kit. Author, Android columnist, writer, developer, and community advocate Mark L. Murphy will show you what you need to know to get started programming Android applications, including how to craft graphical user interfaces, use GPS, and access web services.
Download or read book Android Application Development All in One For Dummies written by Barry Burd and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a beginner programmer eager to create mobile applications or you're Android-savvy and looking to submit your apps to the Android Market, this volume takes you through the ins and outs of programming for Android phones.
Download or read book Robots Androids and Animatrons Second Edition 12 Incredible Projects You Can Build written by John Iovine and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2001-10-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring a robot to life without programming or assembly language skills! There’s never been a better time to explore the world of the nearly human. With the complete directions supplied by popular electronics author John Iovine, you can: • Build your first walking, talking, sensing, thinking robot • Create 12 working robotic projects, using the fully illustrated instructions provided • Get the best available introduction to robotics, motion control, sensors, and neural intelligence • Put together basic modules to build sophisticated ‘bots of your own design • Construct a robotic arm that responds to your spoken commands • Build a realistic, functional robotic hand • Apply sensors to detect bumps, walls, inclines , and roads • Give your robot expertise and neural intelligence You geteverything you need to create 12 exciting robotic projects using off-the-shelf products and workshop-built devices, including a complete parts list. Also ideal for anyone interested in electronic and motion control, this cult classic gives you the building blocks you need to go practically anywhere in robotics.
Download or read book Android for Programmers written by Paul J. Deitel and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to Android application development using the app-driven approach for seven fully coded apps that include syntax, code walkthroughs, and sample outputs.
Download or read book Pro Android 2 written by Sayed Hashimi and published by Apress. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pro Android 2 shows how to build real-world and fun mobile applications using Google's latest Android software development kit. This new edition is updated for Android 2, covering everything from the fundamentals of building applications for embedded devices to advanced concepts such as custom 3D components, OpenGL, and touchscreens including gestures. While other Android development guides simply discuss topics, Pro Android 2 offers the combination of expert insight and real sample applications that work. Discover the design and architecture of the Android SDK through practical examples, and how to build mobile applications using the Android SDK. Explore and use the Android APIs, including those for media and Wi-Fi. Learn about Android 2's integrated local and web search, handwriting gesture UI, Google Translate, and text-to-speech features. Pro Android 2 dives deep, providing you with all the knowledge and techniques you need to build mobile applications ranging from games to Google apps, including add-ons to Google Docs. You'll be able to extend and run the new Google Chrome APIs on the G1, the G2, and other next-generation Google phones and Android-enabled devices.
