Head First Android Development: A Learner's Guide to Building Android Apps with Kotlin
J**X
Excellent intro to Android Studio using Kotlin
Was able to work through the whole book without too much difficulty. There are some typos here and there but the author's source code is correct. Had to adjust some gradle files from what Android Studio generated to match the author's source code to compile some apps.Best Android Studio book by far that I have used.
H**E
Head Start books are such great learning tools.
I have quite a few Head Start books. They are so much fun to learn from. And this one particularly is of tremendous help. So far all the examples compile well. Thanks.
C**H
Why so many typos?
Good grief, you put in the code changes it says to make in the Gradle scripts and the whole thing blows up with error messages. not to mention the quality of book itself just totally sucks. had it for 3 days and pages are starting to come out. O'Reilly, has really gone down hill. Just say no to this book.
T**L
Behind the eight ball
Sadly, the authors teach outdated programming concepts. If you are new to android app development, don't get this book. Find jetpack compose material instead. Layouts are out. XML UI is gone. FindByID...adios. Do learn about higher-order functions and lambdas ASAP. Composables (the new UI) use them ALOT. Because I'm already on the negative path...the images of 1940s women in bathing suits and standing behind their men are disturbingly sexist. Especially with a female author. And the woman making angry, snarky comments didn't appeal to me either.
E**R
ridiculously overpriced and underwhelming
Head first books are garbage. This book is more than 800 pages but at least 50% of it is totally useless garbage. In fact, the one thing I actually needed it for doesn't even mention it: PeriodicWorkRequest. There is exactly 1 page on WorkManager and just like the rest of the book there is a bunch of totally useless copy and a link to the API docs. Thanks, if I wanted to look in the API docs I wouldn't have gotten this book.I guarantee you this book will actually hinder learning Android development rather than help.
G**F
Watch for typos
Great book, but I've found a few typos that will drive the newbie bonkers. If your code doesn't seem to work, ensure the syntax is correct. The book is mostly correct but don't blindly trust it. For example, on page 109 there is an extra " before xmlns.
