Guess I’m on a book “review” kick lately.  I wasn’t planning on posting back to back about the two Android books I’ve bought, but I just received my bound copy of “Hello, Android” by Ed Burnette the other day.  Call me old school, but I still prefer a bound book to a pdf.  I’ve had a pre-release pdf copy for a couple of months now, and wrote about it in a previous post, but just haven’t been able to bring myself to get all my thoughts down on “paper” till I got the actual book.  So here’s my take…
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I am by no means a very good critique and haven’t written a book report since high school, but I have wanted to write my impression so far of the book “Professional Android Application Development” by Reto Meier.  First let me say I have great respect for anyone willing to author a book on software development.  Just writing development posts for this blog has been a huge learning curve for me, I don’t pretend to be the best technical writer!

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