The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development Version 6.2 Released

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This update is smaller than I would have liked, and I apologize for that. It contains:

Some basic Android 5.0 coverage, including notes about various deprecations

Information on how Android 5.0 changes notifications, including heads-up and lockscreen notifications

A new chapter covering JobScheduler , the new Android 5.0 AlarmManager -with-more-brains system service

Added some limited material on batterystats and Battery Historian, the other developer-facing pieces of Project Volta beyond JobScheduler

Rewrote much of the chapter on service binding and remote services, including a fresh set of examples and coverage of Android 5.0’s restriction on the use of implicit Intent s to bind to services

Updated the chapter on the Memory Analysis Tookit (MAT) to include how to use it from Android Studio

Rewrote parts of the first two tutorials to deal with changes introduced by Android Studio 0.8.14

There should be one more update to the book in 2014, probably in mid-December.

Want an expert opinion on your Android app architecture decisions? Perhaps Mark Murphy can help!

— Nov 17, 2014