Written in Packt's Beginner's Guide series, this book takes a step-by-step approach with each chapter made up of three to five tutorials that introduce and explain different animation concepts. All concepts are explained with real-world examples that are fun to read and work with. If you are familiar with developing Android applications and want to bring your apps to life by adding smashing animations, then this book is for you. The book assumes that you are comfortable with Java development and have familiarity with creating Android Views in XML and Java. The tutorials assume that you will want to work with Eclipse, but you can work just as well with your preferred development tools.

Author Biography

Alex Shaw has been developing on Android since 2008 and has never looked back. He created one of the first music-writing applications for the platform, and has worked on Android with business, academia, and the open-source community. He has presented papers on Android development at events across Europe. Alex lives in Edinburgh where it rains a lot and mobile development is a welcome escape from the weather.