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(More customer reviews)This book has been rushed out I think...
The book start very well (those are the parts shown in the Look Inside This Book pdf preview by the way) but quickly the quality goes down :-(
- chapter 1 to 3 are well written with code that works (the 1st chapter also mention that the book is written as a tutorial leading to the creation of a working app, the tutorial starts, the code works despite a few typo and omissions you will have to correct yourself)
- chapter 4 to 5 things go down quite a bit no more tutorial style, most of the info is available on the web.
- chapter 6 (well that really looks like a rework of a copy and past from the online reference doc, something like 50pages of that... ZZzzz Zzz Zzz Zz z)
- chapter 7 and beyond at that point you can tell for sure that the idea of the tutorial is no longer the goal, things turn into a set of coding recipe which you can find pretty much as similar example by browsing the Samples Apps that come with the SDK but more importantly, the code for each recipe is incomplete and there is no download available of the working code either. That is a clear NO NO now days.
In summary I would say that the book does not deliver on its promises and definitely does not live up to its Amazon preview that made me buy the book in the first place.
Don't you hate it when you go see a comedy and the only few good jokes were the ones that you already saw in the trailer?
Well that's kind of the same feeling after reading this book.
I would have given the book 3 stars but:
1. recipes presenting incomplete code
2. no download of working source code for the recipes (that is just poor practice for a programming book).
3. it is clearly not a $55 value
Hence the downgrade to only 2 stars.
NOTE:I am willing to update my review in the event that the authors publish working source code (as a download) for all of the recipes. I'd rather give a good review than a bad one if possible...
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An expert introduction to Samsung's new mobile platform
Bada is a new platform that runs on mass market phones and enables you to build cutting-edge applications for mobile devices. As an access layer, bada has all the advantages of native coding and provides the power of multi-tasking and multi-threading. This book serves as a complete introduction to the exciting capabilities of bada and shows you how bada offers commerce and business services with server-side support. The authors walk you through the complete set of platform APIs and detail the architecture of bada. Code fragments are featured throughout the book as well as examples that utilize all of the major APIs, from sensors to maps and from phonebook to billing.
Introduces Samsung's new platform, bada
Explains the bada framework, its APIs, and the bada architecture
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Features code fragments and numerous examples that address all the major APIs
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Ben Morris is a freelance author and developer, specializing in mobile software including Symbian OS and mobile widgets.
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