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Cute Android Apps for Users: 100,000 Free Books Wattpad

Cute Android: Cute Android Apps for Users: 100,000 Free Books Wattpad

Description
Wattpad is the world’s most popular ebook community. Choose from over 100,000 free books, novels, fan fiction, short stories, poems and more.

Known as “YouTube for ebooks”, Wattpad is where readers and writers discover, share and connect. Whether you’re looking for original romance, mystery, teen, vampires or science fiction, you’ll find it here. If you’re a Twilight, Gossip Girls, Vampire Diaries or Harry Potter fan, you’ll find lots of great fan fiction. After you read it, share your comments with other readers or leave a suggestion for the author.

As seen on Macworld, The New York Times, Business Week, Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Here’s what everyone has been saying:
- OMG! Love this app!!! It’s so much fun!
- Thank you so much for making this social entertainment for all of us who love to read & write!
- I love this app. There are books I can’t even find on Amazon Kindle, B&N nook or Kobo.

Now with SCROLL MODE, you won’t find it in Aldiko, Laputa or FBReader.

Join us on Facebook (facebook.com/wattpad) or Twitter (twitter.com/wattpad) for updates. Visit wattpad.com to upload your own story or book to share with the world!

Also available on iPhone, iPod, BlackBerry, Sony and other mobile devices.

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Recent changes:
Add Share on Facebook, fix minor crashes

Content rating: Low Maturity

Latest version: 2.0.3 (for all Android versions, supports App2SD)

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Cute Android Apps for Users: Kindle

Cute Android: Cute Android Apps for Users: Kindle

Description
The Kindle app is optimized for Android devices giving users the ability to read Kindle books on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 900,000* books in the Kindle Store, including popular new releases and New York Times Best Sellers from $9.99. Read thousands of free ebooks and over 100 newspapers & magazines.

Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up where you left off on another device.

Get the best reading experience available:

• Shop the Kindle Store for over 900,000* Kindle books, including New Releases and 110 of 111 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 610,000* of these books are $9.99 or less, including 73 New York Times Best Sellers.

• Buy, read, and sync over 100 Kindle newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and many more.

• Choose from thousands of free classics, such as Pride and Prejudice or The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

• Get free book samples – read the first chapter free before you decide to buy.

• Enjoy the benefit of Kindle optimized for Honeycomb tablets; A new library layout, an improved book, newspaper, and magazine reading experience, and dozens of other new enhancements to take advantage of the larger screens.

• Customize your reading experience by choosing the background color, font size, and either portrait or landscape format.

• Instant dictionary word lookup with 250,000 entries and definitions. Tap and hold a word to view the definition. Use the Google and Wikipedia links to get more information.

• Search inside the book to find a character, topic, or section you want to revisit.

• Simply tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages.

• Experience seamless integrated Kindle shopping tailored for Honeycomb tablets that gives you quick access to personalized recommendations, customer reviews, and more.

• You can also read your Kindle books on your Kindle, Kindle DX, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod and BlackBerry. Our Whispersync technology syncs your last page read, notes, bookmarks, and highlights across devices, so you can pick up where you left off.

* Selection and price of books in the Kindle Store may vary by country.

Recent changes:
v3.0.1:

• Several bug fixes

v3.0.0:

• German language support in the app and store

• A new layout for newspapers and magazines designed for the unique interface of Honeycomb tablets, and dozens of other new enhancements to take advantage of the larger screens.

• Seamless integrated shopping experience tailored for Honeycomb tablets

• Ability to pause, resume content download

• Enhanced word look-up capability with built-in dictionary with over 250,000 entries and definitions

• Bug fixes

Content rating: Everyone

Latest version: 3.0.1.70 (for Android version 2.1 and higher, supports App2SD)

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Cute Android Apps for Users: Aldiko Book Reader

Cute Android: Cute Android Apps for Users: Aldiko Book Reader

Description
Read and download thousands of books right on your Android phone or tablet.

Browse huge catalogs of ebooks including best-sellers, new releases and classics (lot of them for FREE) or import your own ePub and PDF files.

Comfortable and customizable reading experience (font type, color, margin, night mode, etc.), bookmarks, full text search.

Recent changes:
- Improved library/store search
- Improved store layout
- Minor bug fixes
- Updated translations (Russian, Polish, German, Italian, Greek, Korean, Indonesian)

Content rating: Low Maturity

Latest version: 2.0.1 (for Android version 2.1 and higher, supports App2SD)

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Cute Android Apps for Users: Bible

Cute Android: Cute Android Apps for Users: Bible

Description
Get the #1 rated and ranked for FREE. We want to make it easy for you to read and share God’s Word. 50+ free translations and dozens of reading plans to help you read the Bible and track your progress.

MANY GREAT BIBLE TRANSLATIONS:

• Free access to many modern English Bible translations including the NIV, ESV, NLT, NKJV, AMP, NASB, CEV, NET, WEB, NCV, TNIV, HCSB, The Message and more.

• Free access to many modern Spanish Bible translations including the Reina-Valera 1960 (RVR60), NVI, LBLA, NBLH and more.

• Free access many foreign language Bibles including German, French, Italian, Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Norwegian, Czech, Bulgarian, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and more.

OFFLINE BIBLE ACCESS/AIRPLANE MODE:

• Free access to many Bible translations while you’re offline (no data connection) or in “airplane mode”: The Message, NKJV, KJV, NET, NCV, God’s Word, ASV, WEB, RVES, ELB, LSG, CUVS, CUV, NB88/07 and many more.

MANY SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Easily search the Bible for either a reference or a keyword. The Bible App displays your Bible search results quickly for fast navigation.

• Choose from dozens of daily reading plans to help you read the Bible consistently. Track your Bible reading progress and sync your changes back to YouVersion.com, where you can join millions of other YouVersion users discussing what you’re reading in the Bible.

• Connect your Twitter and Facebook accounts to easily share Bible verses.

• Bookmark your favorite Bible verses and sync them with YouVersion.com.

• NOTES! Make public or private notes on your Bible reading. Your notes sync with YouVersion.com. View public notes (formerly “contributions”) from other Bible App users.

USE THE BIBLE APP IN CHURCH • Interact with church services and conferences…Tap “Live” in the bottom dock while you’re attending an event or service that’s using YouVersion Live. Take notes, respond to polls, answer questions, tweet about the event, and more!

COMING SOON • more Bible translations in offline mode • more Bible translations in other languages • more daily Bible reading plans • more social integration with YouVersion.com

We do not sell or share any personal information you provide us with third parties. You can read our privacy policy at youversion.com/privacy.

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Latest version: 3.0.2 (for all Android versions, supports App2SD)

Recent changes:
* Audio NLT. The Bible App™ for Android can now read you the New Living Translation (NLT).
* Slovak language interface. For the first time, when you configure your Android device to use Slovak as your default language, the Bible App will now display all its menus and controls in Slovak for you.
* NIV bug fix. Some users who downloaded the NIV to their Android device later lost access to it. We found and corrected the bug that was causing that error.

Latest version: 3.0.2 (for all Android versions, supports App2SD)

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Android books for developers: Unlocking Android

I love this Android book so much, it covers a lot of Android knowledge which I want to know, include Android basics, Android SDK cores and Android applications. Especially, I’m very interesting the chapter 7 and chap 8, which tell about Android Telephony and Notifictions. But I have met a strange thing when I practice with the SMSNotifyExample, everything is OK but it does not work in Android SDK 2.1. I didn’t know what happened and how can I fix the examples? And finally, I found the reason in Manning Forums:

“The android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED Intent action was removed from the documentation prior to v1.5 release but at the same time continues to function. It also seems that this reference is required when setting up a BroadcastReceiver for SMS Messaging.”

That’s the problem of Android Fragmentation, and you can find the Android platform versions distributions here. For Unlocking Android, the update book will come and the problem may be resolved. And for Android developers, if you need the complete codes of the Android book, you can download or browse them here:

http://code.google.com/p/unlocking-android/
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The list of Android books

This is a simple list of Android books I have found, if you found any other Android book not in here, pls tell me. The details info of these Android books is maintained in the “Android Book” page and I will update it regularly.

1. Android Developer’s Guide
2. Hello, Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform(2nd Edition)
3. Professional Android 2 Application Development
4. Beginning Android 2
5. Pro Android 2
6. Google on the Go: Using an Android-Powered Mobile Phone
7. Unlocking Android: A Developer’s Guide
8. Android Wireless Application Development
9. Pro Android Games
10. Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK
11. Web Geek’s Guide to the Android-Enabled Phone
12. Android Programming Tutorials: Easy-To-Follow Training-Style Exercises on Android Application Development
13. The Busy Coder’s Guide to Advanced Android Development
14. T-Mobile G1 For Dummies
15. ANDROID A PROGRAMMERS GUIDE
16. Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours
17. Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
18. Best Android Apps
19. Android Essentials (Firstpress)
20. The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development

Android books for Users: Google on the Go

This Andorid book is not for developers, but for users who want use their Android phones to make life more productive, more efficient, and more fun!

Google on the Go: Using an Android-Powered Mobile Phone

Product Description

So you’ve got one of those hot new Android-powered phones? Awesome! Now, get the most out of it with Google on the Go! This friendly, easy book shows exactly how to use your phone to make your life more productive, more efficient, and more fun!

Making calls? Playing MP3s? Sending Gmail? Taking pictures? It’s all covered here—one step at a time, in plain English. There’s no faster way to master the great Google tools built into your new phone: calendar, messaging, web browsing, chat, Google Maps, YouTube, you name it!

Want to customize your phone? Here’s how. Need to troubleshoot a problem? No sweat: you’ll find easy, step-by-step directions. Whether you’re using the T-Mobile G1 or another Android-powered smartphone, this book answers all your questions so you can harness the power of Google applications and tools in the palm of your hand.

• Set up your Google Android phone fast!

• Quickly master phone basics, from speakerphone to call waiting

• Transfer contacts from your computer or another phone

• Add new Calendar appointments and reminders

• Make the most of your free Gmail account

• Take photos, and send them instantly to your contacts

• Watch videos and upload them to YouTube

• Find practically anything with Google Search

• Use Google Talk’s handy chat features

• Get directions and traffic info with Google Maps… even use GPS!

• Install new software tools and even start writing your own

• Fix the most common problems with service and hardware

About the Author

John Eddy is a gadget hobbyist who infuriates his wife by continually getting new toys that need to be put somewhere. The majority of his career has been spent trying to ensure that normal, everyday people can successfully use their technological wonders. He has helped people both directly, through product support, and indirectly, by moderating online forums and newsgroups, thus ensuring a safe environment in which to seek answers.

After his long career in and around Microsoft, it’s ironic that John’s first book is about Google. He spends his days and nights in the Seattle area reading,watching too much TV and not enough movies, and enjoying quality time on his Xbox 360 and Wii with his far more techsavvy wife. Author of Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, she shares his love of cooking and eating.Their food chronicles can be found at www.cooklocal.com.

Patricia DiGiacomo Eddy is an accomplished technology author and mobile phone geek who isn’t nearly as infuriated with her husband’s love of gadgets as he might think. She has written several books, including Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Absolute Beginner’s Guide to OneNote, and Access 2003: VBA Programmer’s Reference. Her day job is spent writing about email technology with a major software company. Her evenings are spent writing about a wide variety of other topics, including health and fitness, cooking, and Seattle culture. She enjoys a good game of Wii Tennis. Although she watches too much TV, she isn’t planning on changing that habit any time soon. Patricia and her husband recently completed their first half marathon and are looking forward to training for a full marathon as soon as this book is on the shelves.

Product Details

* Paperback: 216 pages
* Publisher: Que; 1st edition (February 22, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0789739534
* ISBN-13: 978-0789739537
* Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches

One bug of the Android 2.x book: Professional Android 2 Application Development

The chap2 in the Android 2.x book “Professional Android 2 Application Development” gives a “TO-DO LIST EXAMPLE”, which will create a new to-do list Android application from scratch. There are 9 steps to create the to-do list application with using native Android View controls and the bug occurs on the final step:

“The final step to make this to-do list functional is to let users add new to-do items. Add an onKeyListener to the EditText that listens for a ‘‘D-pad center button’’ click before adding the contents of the EditText to the to-do list array and notifying the ArrayAdapter of the change. Then clear the EditText to prepare for another item.”

The added codes are bold:

myEditText.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
　public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
　　if (event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN)
　　　if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_CENTER){
　　　　todoItems.add(0, myEditText.getText().toString());
　　　　aa.notifyDataSetChanged();
　　　　myEditText.setText(“”);
　　　　return true;

If you can’t run this to-do list application as the Android project, maybe the bug occurred on the below line:

myEditText.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {

You should modify this line to:

myEditText.setOnKeyListener(new View.OnKeyListener() {

then the problem maybe resolved.

Android 2.x books for developers

As an open source mobile operating system that uses a modified version of the Linux kernel, Google Android’s philosophy is to release early and iterate often. With a rapid relese cycle, there are seven versions of Android platforms and SDK releases now, accompanied by a lot of Android books for developers. But most of them are Android 1.x books, for Android 2.x, till this month, three Android 2.x books are available, below is the details of them.

1 Professional Android 2 Application Development

Product Description

Build unique mobile applications with the latest Android SDK

Written by an Android authority, this up-to-date resource shows you how to leverage the features of Android 2 to enhance existing products or create innovative new ones. Serving as a hands-on guide to building mobile apps using Android, the book walks you through a series of sample projects that introduces you to Android’s new features and techniques. Using the explanations and examples included in these pages, you’ll acquire the foundation needed to write compelling mobile applications that use Android, along with the flexibility to quickly adapt to future enhancements.

Professional Android 2 Application Development:

* Reviews Android as a development platform and?best practices for mobile development
* Provides an in-depth look at the Android application components
* Details creating layouts and Views to produce compelling resolution independent user interfaces
* Examines Intents and Content Providers for sharing data
* Introduces techniques for creating map-based applications and using location-based services such as GPS
* Looks at how to create and use background Services, Notifications, and Alarms
* Demonstrates how to create interactive homescreen components
* Explores the Bluetooth, telephony, and networking APIs
* Examines using hardware, including the camera and sensors such as the compass and accelerometers

Product Details

* Paperback: 576 pages
* Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (March 1, 2010)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0470565527
* ISBN-13: 978-0470565520

Professional Android 2 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

2 Beginning Android 2

Product Description

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 SDK. 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 GUIs, use GPS, and access web services.

What you’ll learn
* Discover Android and how to use it to build Java-based mobile applications for a wide range of phones and other devices.
* Create user interfaces using both the Android widget framework and the built-in WebKit-powered Web browser components.
* Utilize the distinctive capabilities of the Android engine, including location tracking, maps, and Internet access.
* Use and create Android applications incorporating activities, services, content providers, and broadcast receivers.
* Support Android 1.5, 1.6, and 2.0 devices, including dealing with multiple Android OS versions, multiple screen sizes, and other device-specific characteristics.

Who is this book for?

This book is aimed at people new to mobile development, perhaps even to Java development itself.

Product Details
* Paperback: 416 pages
* Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (March 11, 2010)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1430226293
* ISBN-13: 978-1430226291

Beginning Android 2

3 Pro Android 2

Product Description

The age of Web 2.0 smart mobile phones and handsets is here. First there was the BlackBerry, then there was the iPhone, and now … there’s Google, with its Android Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK) and platform, and its hardware partners in the Open Handset Alliance. Android works with the HTC G1 and G2 phones, the DROID, and the Nexus One. Android is also available on other mobile phones and devices, including netbooks.

Pro Android 2 shows you how to build real-world and fun mobile applications using Google’s Android SDK. This book covers everything from the fundamentals of building applications for embedded devices to advanced concepts such as custom 3D components.

* Discover the design and architecture of the Android SDK, 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 2.0’s integrated local and web search, handwriting gesture UI, Google Translate, and text-to-speech features.

With Android and this book, you’ll be able 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.

What you’ll learn

* How to use Android to build Java-based mobile applications for Google phones with a touch screen or keyboard (thanks to Cupcake’s inclusion as of Android 1.5)
* How to design and architect using Google’s Android SDK
* How to use the Android SDK to write mobile applications for embedded devices
* How to create 3D graphics with OpenGL and custom components
* How to build multimedia and game apps using Android’s Media APIs and OpenGL
* How to use Android’s location-based services, networking (Wi-Fi APIs), and security
* How to create and allow for more integrated local and web searches
* How to build handwriting gesture UIs
* How to incorporate Google Translate into your Android applications

Who is this book for?

This book is for professional software engineers/programmers looking to move their ideas and applications into the mobile space with Android. It assumes that readers have a passable understanding of Java, including being able to write classes and handle basic inheritance structures. This book also targets hobbyists.

Product Details

* Paperback: 736 pages
* Publisher: Apress; 1st Edition. edition (February 26, 2010)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1430226595
* ISBN-13: 978-1430226598

Pro Android 2

Android books for developers: Hello, Android

Like the most famous programming example “Hello World”, “Hello Android” book may be the good early Android book for the beginners, but not for the one who is familiar with Android and want to understand it deeply.

Before choosing “Hello Android” as my first Android book, an urgent task needed me to develop a simple prototype of Android application. By then, I had not enough time and just programming experiences with C++, Perl, Python and none experience with Java. After reading the Android Developer’s Guide quickly, I decided to choose an Android book which is concise and easy to start, so “Hello Android” book became my candidates, because it’s just 200+ pages, that’s may take me a little time.

Follow the introduction of the “Hello Android” book in the beginning, I created my first Android project “Hello Android” and run it within the Android Emulator, designed the User Interface for the Sudoku example with the XML descriptors, every thing was funny because I have none programming experience in any mobile platform before. But after chapter 3 “Designing the User Interface”, things has changed. I don’t care about the 2D or 3D graphics which may be important for the one who want to develop a game app for Android. I want learn the intents, services and broadcast receivers more which will be used in my Android application, but the “Hello Android” book introduces them simply. I had to give up the “Hello Android” book because I have not enough time to read through it, but actually this Android book is very easy to read, have straightforward examples like the Sudoku and etc. If you have enough time to learn Android, “Hello Android” book may be the right way to start.
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