Acknowledgments

It takes an entire cast of people to write a book. Without the tireless efforts of the crew at Manning, our friends who helped with several sections, and all of our technical reviewers and early access subscribers who provided feedback along the way, this book would never have happened.

Michael Stephens at Manning got the entire project off the ground and got us into the capable hands of Troy Mott, who directed us through the remainder of the project. Along the way Cynthia Kane was our development editor and main advisor on many topics. She helped us with just about everything, from grammar and usage to style and format and more. Mary Piergies kept everything organized and led the way into production. Once there, Benjamin Berg did a fantastic job of formatting and copyediting, while Gordan Salinovic did the typesetting. And publisher Marjan Bace made the whole thing possible.

Outside of Manning we managed to convince a few of our friends and colleagues to pitch in too. Tamas Jano and Robert Cooper provided code examples and text to help us create the 2D and 3D drawing chapter. And, Logan Johnson worked on several of the ContentProvider examples that became part of chapter 8, “Sharing data between apps.” Without their excellent contributions we would’ve lacked coverage of those important aspects of Android programming.