Take your Android programming skills to the next level by unleashing the potential of Android Studio

Expert Android Studio bridges the gap between your Android programing skills with the provided tools including Android Studio, NDK, Gradle and Plugins for IntelliJ Idea Platform. Packed with best practices and advanced tips and techniques on Android tools, development cycle, continuos integration, release management, testing, and performance, this book offers professional guidance to experienced developers who want to push the boundaries of the Android platform with the developer tools. You'll discover how to use the tools and techniques to unleash your true potential as a developer.

• Discover the basics of working in Android Studio and Gradle, as well as the application architecture of the latest Android platform
• Understand Native Development Kit and its integration with Android Studio
• Complete your development lifecycle with automated tests, dependency management, continuos integration and release management
• Writing your own Gradle plugins to customize build cycle
• Writing your own plugins for Android Studio to help your development tasks.

Expert Android Studio is a tool for expert and experienced developers who want to learn how to make use of the tools while creating Android applications for use on mobile devices.

About the authors

Murat Yener is an Android geek, working at Intel. He is a Google Developer Expert on Android, a Java Champion, a book author and a respected conference speaker. He has deep experience in Java, Web, Java EE and OSGi, as well as teaching and mentoring. Murat is experienced in writing tools for developers and was previously an Eclipse committer. He is an active member and organizer in communities such JUGs and GDGs.

Onur Dundar started his professional software engineering career at Intel Corporation as a Software Application Engineer working on mobile platforms, tablets, phones with MeeGo and Android and later on IoT platforms like IPTV, Intel's Galileo and Intel's Edison. Onur is a popular contributor to the software community delivering training on Android application development. He is now working on design and development of reliable data science software platforms, with keeping his interest and work in IoT and Android.

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