Deciding Where to Go From Here

Congratulations on completing the book!

(or, at the very least, congratulations for turning to this chapter!)

At this point, you should be “up to speed” on the basics of developing Android apps. However, Android is vast, and this book only scratches the surface. For example, while you may think this book is large, The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development was about five times larger… and it did not cover everything in Android.

So, here are ways to learn more about other areas of Android and to get help in your ongoing development efforts.

The Rest of the Books

If you subscribed to the Warescription, there are many more books that you can read as needed. These include:

• Exploring Android, the hands-on counterpart to this book, walking you through building an app step-by-step
• Elements of Kotlin and Elements of Kotlin Coroutines, if you need more information about the up-and-coming options for writing apps
• Elements of Android Room, for more breadth and depth on Google’s object/relational mapping engine for SQLite

The “Elements” series also covers books about newer Android versions, written as they come out, such as 2020’s Elements of Android R.

The aforementioned The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development and other older books are also available to you. Mostly, though, The Busy Coder’s Guide is for specialized topic areas in Android app development.

Note that all of the books are searchable via the Warescription site, so you can search on class names or subjects of interest and see what is available across the entire CommonsWare library.

You might want to follow the CommonsBlog, both for announcements of new books and updates to books, along with lots of additional information on Android app development.