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O'Reilly Media.
The Android Cookbook is a crowd-sourced
O'Reilly Cookbook
about how to build great Android applications.
The book is full of how-to information along with code snippets that
illustrate the ideas presented; most of the code samples are available as complete projects
on github.
It features both how-to's that overlap with the
official documentation, and material that goes beyond this to be
more tutorial, more in-depth, or explaining "lessons from the trenches":
what actually works to get the application functioning well.
Unlike most books written by one, two or a few individuals,
this one has input from dozens of contributors, who were all
able to view and comment on each others' recipes before the book was published.
The published version(s) include printed books, eBooks, and other uses.
An earlier version of this website was used to crowd-source the book and
displayed the individual recipes, but that has gotten out of date and the recipes are
no longer available online here.
We still welcome contributions from anybody who has something useful to say
about how to make usable and successful Android applications.
There are several ways of contributing: experienced Android developers
can write recipes; newer ones can suggest recipes that they'd like to
see; anybody can read and comment on recipes.
To contribute a new recipe or comment on an existing one, please use this
contact form.
All we ask of contributors is the following:
- You agree to license your work - both the textual description
and the code fragment(s) - under the
Creative Commons Attribution cc-by License;
- When writing a new recipe, you put your contribution into the standard Cookbook form
("Problem", "Solution", "Discussion") as described in the
contributing page.
- Only paste in code fragments that have been compiled and run;
- And of course you assert that the work is your own.
Do not copy from others' books or published works; if we wanted to
reprint existing stuff we could just find it on the web.
And if you are working for an organization, you assert that you have permission
to use portions of their code.
Everyone who contributed a Recipe that was chosen, or who yet contributes a new recipe
that is chosen - at the editors' sole discretion -
for inclusion in the published work, receives an ebook
copy of the finished edition (readable in all supported O'Reilly eBook formats).
And their name is of course included in the book.
