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Android in Action, 3rd Edition

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:06 AM PST

Android in Action, 3rd Edition

Book Description

Android in Action, Third Edition is a comprehensive tutorial for Android developers. This fast-paced book puts you in the driver’s seat — you’ll master the SDK, build WebKit apps using HTML 5, and even learn to extend or replace Android’s built-in features by building useful and intriguing examples.

When it comes to mobile apps, Android can do almost anything, and with this book, so can you! Android, Google’s popular mobile operating system and SDK for tablets and smart phones, is the broadest mobile platform available. It is Java-based, HTML5-aware, and loaded with the features today’s mobile users demand.

Android in Action, Third Edition takes you far beyond “Hello Android.” You’ll master the SDK, build WebKit apps using HTML 5, and even learn to extend or replace Android’s built-in features. You’ll find interesting examples on every page as you explore cross-platform graphics with RenderScript, the updated notification system, and the Native Development Kit. This book also introduces important tablet concepts like drag-and-drop, fragments, and the Action Bar, all new in Android 3.

What’s Inside

  • Covers Android 3.x
  • SDK and WebKit development from the ground up
  • Driving a robot with Bluetooth and sensors
  • Image processing with Native C code

This book is written for hobbyists and developers. A background in Java is helpful. No prior experience with Android is assumed.

Table of Contents
Part 1: What is Android? The big picture
Chapter 1. Introducing Android
Chapter 2. Android's development environment

Part 2: Exercising the Android SDK
Chapter 3. User interfaces
Chapter 4. Intents and Services
Chapter 5. Storing and retrieving data
Chapter 6. Networking and web services
Chapter 7. Telephony
Chapter 8. Notifications and alarms
Chapter 9. Graphics and animation
Chapter 10. Multimedia
Chapter 11. Location, location, location

Part 3: Android applications
Chapter 12. Putting Android to work in a field service application
Chapter 13. Building Android applications in C

Part 4: The maturing platform
Chapter 14. Bluetooth and sensors
Chapter 15. Integration
Chapter 16. Android web development
Chapter 17. AppWidgets
Chapter 18. Localization
Chapter 19. Android Native Development Kit
Chapter 20. Activity fragments
Chapter 21. Android 3.0 action bar
Chapter 22. Drag-and-drop

Appendix A. Installing the Android SDK
Appendix B. Publishing applications

Book Details

  • Paperback: 664 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications; 3rd Edition (November 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1617290505
  • ISBN-13: 978-1617290503
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Clojure in Action

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:06 AM PST

Clojure in Action

Book Description

Clojure in Action is a hands-on tutorial for the working programmer who has written code in a language like Java or Ruby, but has no prior experience with Lisp. It teaches Clojure from the basics to advanced topics using practical, real-world application examples. Blow through the theory and dive into practical matters like unit-testing and environment set-up, all the way through building a scalable web-application using domain-specific languages, Hadoop, HBase, and RabbitMQ.

Clojure is a modern Lisp for the JVM, and it has the strengths you’d expect: first-class functions, macros, support for functional programming, and a Lisp-like, clean programming style.

Clojure in Action is a practical guide focused on applying Clojure to practical programming challenges. You’ll start with a language tutorial written for readers who already know OOP. Then, you’ll dive into the use cases where Clojure really shines: state management, safe concurrency and multicore programming, first-class code generation, and Java interop. In each chapter, you’ll first explore the unique characteristics of a problem area and then discover how to tackle them using Clojure. Along the way, you’ll explore practical matters like architecture, unit testing, and set-up as you build a scalable web application that includes custom DSLs, Hadoop, HBase, and RabbitMQ.

What’s Inside

  • A fast-paced Clojure tutorial
  • Creating web services with Clojure
  • Scaling through messaging
  • Creating DSLs with Clojure’s macro system
  • Test-driven development with Clojure
  • Distributed programming with Clojure, and more

This book assumes you’re familiar with an OO language like Java, C#, or C++ but requires no background in Lisp or Clojure itself.

Table of Contents
Part 1: Getting started
Chapter 1. Introduction to Clojure
Chapter 2. A whirlwind tour
Chapter 3. Building blocks of Clojure
Chapter 4. Polymorphism with multimethods
Chapter 5. Clojure and Java interop
Chapter 6. State and the concurrent world
Chapter 7. Evolving Clojure through macros

Part 2: Getting real
Chapter 8. Test-driven development and more
Chapter 9. Data storage with Clojure
Chapter 10. Clojure and the web
Chapter 11. Scaling through messaging
Chapter 12. Data processing with Clojure
Chapter 13. More on functional programming
Chapter 14. Protocols, records, and types
Chapter 15. More macros and DSLs

Book Details

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications (November 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1935182595
  • ISBN-13: 978-1935182597
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Lift in Action

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:43 AM PST

Lift in Action

Book Description

Lift in Action is a step-by-step exploration of the Lift framework. It moves through the subject quickly using carefully crafted, well-explained examples that make you comfortable from the start. This book is written for developers who are new to both Scala and Lift.

Lift is a Scala-based web framework designed for extremely interactive and engaging web applications. It’s highly scalable, production-ready, and will run in any servlet container. And Lift’s convention-over-configuration approach lets you avoid needless work.

Lift in Action is a step-by-step exploration of the Lift framework. It moves through the subject quickly using carefully crafted, well-explained examples that make you comfortable from the start. You’ll follow an entertaining Travel Auction application that covers the core concepts and shows up architectural and development strategies. Handy appendixes offer a Scala crash course and guidance for setting up a good coding environment.

This book is written for developers who are new to both Scala and Lift and covers just enough Scala to get you started.

What’s Inside

  • Complete coverage of the Lift framework
  • Security, maintainability, and performance
  • Integration and scaling
  • Covers Lift 2.x

Table of Contents
Part 1: Getting started
Chapter 1. Introducing Lift
Chapter 2. Hello Lift

Part 2: Application tutorial
Chapter 3. The auction application
Chapter 4. Customers, auctions, and bidding
Chapter 5. Shopping basket and checkout

Part 3: Lift in detail
Chapter 6. Common tasks with Lift WebKit
Chapter 7. SiteMap and access control
Chapter 8. HTTP in Lift
Chapter 9. AJAX, wiring, and Comet
Chapter 10. Persistence with Mapper
Chapter 11. Persistence with Record
Chapter 12. Localization
Chapter 13. Distributed messaging and Java enterprise integration
Chapter 14. Application testing
Chapter 15. Deployment and scaling

Appendix A. Introduction to Scala
Appendix B. Configuring an IDE
Appendix C. Options and boxes

Book Details

  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications (November 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1935182803
  • ISBN-13: 978-1935182801
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OpenCL in Action

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:42 AM PST

OpenCL in Action

Book Description

OpenCL in Action is a thorough, hands-on presentation of OpenCL, with an eye toward showing developers how to build high-performance applications of their own. It begins by presenting the core concepts behind OpenCL, including vector computing, parallel programming, and multi-threaded operations, and then guides you step-by-step from simple data structures to complex functions.

Whatever system you have, it probably has more raw processing power than you’re using. OpenCL is a high-performance programming language that maximizes computational power by executing on CPUs, graphics processors, and other number-crunching devices. It’s perfect for speed-sensitive tasks like vector computing, matrix operations, and graphics acceleration.

OpenCL in Action blends the theory of parallel computing with the practical reality of building high-performance applications using OpenCL. It first guides you through the fundamental data structures in an intuitive manner. Then, it explains techniques for high-speed sorting, image processing, matrix operations, and fast Fourier transform. The book concludes with a deep look at the all-important subject of graphics acceleration. Numerous challenging examples give you different ways to experiment with working code.

A background in C or C++ is helpful, but no prior exposure to OpenCL is needed.

What’s Inside

  • Learn OpenCL step by step
  • Tons of annotated code
  • Tested algorithms for maximum performance

Table of Contents
Part 1: Foundations of OpenCL programming
Chapter 1. Introducing OpenCL
Chapter 2. Host programming: fundamental data structures
Chapter 3. Host programming: data transfer and partitioning
Chapter 4. Kernel programming: data types and device memory
Chapter 5. Kernel programming: operators and functions
Chapter 6. Image processing
Chapter 7. Events, profiling, and synchronization
Chapter 8. Development with C++
Chapter 9. Development with Java and Python
Chapter 10. General coding principles

Part 2: Coding practical algorithms in OpenCL
Chapter 11. Reduction and sorting
Chapter 12. Matrices and QR decomposition
Chapter 13. Sparse matrices
Chapter 14. Signal processing and the fast Fourier transform

Part 3: Accelerating OpenGL with OpenCL
Chapter 15. Combining OpenCL and OpenGL
Chapter 16. Textures and renderbuffers

Appendix A. Installing and using a software development kit
Appendix B. Real-time rendering with OpenGL
Appendix C. The minimalist GNU for Windows and OpenCL
Appendix D. OpenCL on mobile devices

Book Details

  • Paperback: 456 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications (November 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1617290173
  • ISBN-13: 978-1617290176
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Tika in Action

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:42 AM PST

Tika in Action

Book Description

Tika in Action is a hands-on guide to content mining with Apache Tika. The book’s many examples and case studies offer real-world experience from domains ranging from search engines to digital asset management and scientific data processing.

Tika is an Apache toolkit that has built into it everything you and your app need to know about file formats. Using Tika, your applications can discover and extract content from digital documents in almost any format, including exotic ones.

Tika in Action is the ultimate guide to content mining using Apache Tika. You’ll learn how to pull usable information from otherwise inaccessible sources, including internet media and file archives. This example-rich book teaches you to build and extend applications based on real-world experience with search engines, digital asset management, and scientific data processing. In addition to architectural overviews, you’ll find detailed chapters on features like metadata extraction, automatic language detection, and custom parser development.

This book is written for developers who are new to both Scala and Lift and covers just enough Scala to get you started.

What’s Inside

  • Crack MS Word, PDF, HTML, and ZIP
  • Integrate with search engines, CMS, and other data sources
  • Learn through experimentation
  • Many examples

This book requires no previous knowledge of Tika or text mining techniques. It assumes a working knowledge of Java.

Table of Contents
Part 1: Getting started
Chapter 1. The case for the digital Babel fish
Chapter 2. Getting started with Tika
Chapter 3. The information landscape

Part 2: Tika in detail
Chapter 4. Document type detection
Chapter 5. Content extraction
Chapter 6. Understanding metadata
Chapter 7. Language detection
Chapter 8. What's in a file?

Part 3: Integration and advanced use
Chapter 9. The big picture
Chapter 10. Tika and the Lucene search stack
Chapter 11. Extending Tika

Part 4: Case studies
Chapter 12. Powering NASA science data systems
Chapter 13. Content management with Apache Jackrabbit
Chapter 14. Curating cancer research data with Tika
Chapter 15. The classic search engine example

Appendix A. Tika quick reference
Appendix B. Supported metadata keys

Book Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications (November 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1935182854
  • ISBN-13: 978-1935182856
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