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B4A: Rapid Android App Development using BASIC
Android is the world's favorite mobile operating system and B4A is the easiest rapid app development tool, allowing complete beginners to create powerful Android apps using the easily learned BASIC language.
This book covers B4A version 5.50. It starts with step-by-step beginners' guides explaining how to plan, design, develop, test, publish and make money from Android apps in the shortest possible time. It explains how to use B4A to create graphics and databases, to communicate with the user and to modify your app dynamically so it will look good on a wide range of devices.
It includes you a comprehensive reference guide to the B4A language, providing lists, explanations and illustrations of every keyword, object and core library.
This complete guide is suitable for intermediate and expert developers but will also be useful for beginners. It covers every aspect of B4A from installation and using the WYSIWYG visual editor through a comprehensive reference section to extending the tool using Additional Libraries supplied by other users. It will quickly repay its cost by the time saved in finding the information you need when you need it.
A trial version of B4A can be downloaded free from the web. What readers said about the first edition
"This was a book that I now use as a constant reference and have found it a mine of information."
"Brilliantly written and presented."
"Excellent book. Just what I was looking for."
"I will not now be able to think of developing an app without this book at my side." About B4A
B4A is widely recognised by professional developers as the simplest and most powerful Rapid App Development tool available for Android. For example they say:
"I've [made] more progress with B4A in 3 hours than I have in 3 months with other Android IDEs." Morgan Matthews.
"I must say as a Visual Basic expert B4A is the best software purchase I've made in a long time. Within an hour of installing I had a fully functional application running on both my phone and tablet." Dylan Palmer.
"This is the greatest product ever! After spending two months trying to learn Java, I stumbled upon you. I have been a VB programmer for 25 years, and I am in heaven now! Thank you!" Marc Mieher.
However it's not always easy to find the information you want from the on-line help. That's why developer Wyken Seagrave wrote this book.
This book covers B4A version 5.50. It starts with step-by-step beginners' guides explaining how to plan, design, develop, test, publish and make money from Android apps in the shortest possible time. It explains how to use B4A to create graphics and databases, to communicate with the user and to modify your app dynamically so it will look good on a wide range of devices.
It includes you a comprehensive reference guide to the B4A language, providing lists, explanations and illustrations of every keyword, object and core library.
This complete guide is suitable for intermediate and expert developers but will also be useful for beginners. It covers every aspect of B4A from installation and using the WYSIWYG visual editor through a comprehensive reference section to extending the tool using Additional Libraries supplied by other users. It will quickly repay its cost by the time saved in finding the information you need when you need it.
A trial version of B4A can be downloaded free from the web. What readers said about the first edition
"This was a book that I now use as a constant reference and have found it a mine of information."
"Brilliantly written and presented."
"Excellent book. Just what I was looking for."
"I will not now be able to think of developing an app without this book at my side." About B4A
B4A is widely recognised by professional developers as the simplest and most powerful Rapid App Development tool available for Android. For example they say:
"I've [made] more progress with B4A in 3 hours than I have in 3 months with other Android IDEs." Morgan Matthews.
"I must say as a Visual Basic expert B4A is the best software purchase I've made in a long time. Within an hour of installing I had a fully functional application running on both my phone and tablet." Dylan Palmer.
"This is the greatest product ever! After spending two months trying to learn Java, I stumbled upon you. I have been a VB programmer for 25 years, and I am in heaven now! Thank you!" Marc Mieher.
However it's not always easy to find the information you want from the on-line help. That's why developer Wyken Seagrave wrote this book.
695 pages, Paperback
First published October 21, 2013
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About the author
Wyken Seagrave
9 books7 followersWyken Seagrave is a British author who is passionate about using the history of the Universe to integrate a wide range of scientific, historical and social knowledge into a single unified story.
“In a technological world facing many global problems, everyone needs to have a basic understanding of science. And knowing where we came from and helps us to make decisions about the future,” he says.
Wyken has been studying and writing about this subject for 40 years, both as an historical narrative and as fiction. His first book, Global Vision, was published in 1992 by Penny Press, a company dedicated to publishing on this subject. He converted the book to a website History of the Universe in 1998 which now receives hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
Wyken believes that “Seeing ourselves in a universal perspective is not only an emotional experience. It has practical implications for our lives. Solving our current problems, many of which are on a global scale, will require global solutions. We all need to make important decisions about our ways of life. We need to understand what has caused our problems and what options we have for solving them. We can only obtain this by taking a global perspective.”
In 2002 he began to write Time Crystal, an epic work of fiction in which the characters have adventures as they go back in time to the Big Bang in an heroic effort to save the Universe. The first volume, The Cosmic Monopole was published in 2011.
In 2012 he produced the ebook History of the Universe which gives simple explainations of the science behind the story, including hundreds of illustrations.
“In a technological world facing many global problems, everyone needs to have a basic understanding of science. And knowing where we came from and helps us to make decisions about the future,” he says.
Wyken has been studying and writing about this subject for 40 years, both as an historical narrative and as fiction. His first book, Global Vision, was published in 1992 by Penny Press, a company dedicated to publishing on this subject. He converted the book to a website History of the Universe in 1998 which now receives hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
Wyken believes that “Seeing ourselves in a universal perspective is not only an emotional experience. It has practical implications for our lives. Solving our current problems, many of which are on a global scale, will require global solutions. We all need to make important decisions about our ways of life. We need to understand what has caused our problems and what options we have for solving them. We can only obtain this by taking a global perspective.”
In 2002 he began to write Time Crystal, an epic work of fiction in which the characters have adventures as they go back in time to the Big Bang in an heroic effort to save the Universe. The first volume, The Cosmic Monopole was published in 2011.
In 2012 he produced the ebook History of the Universe which gives simple explainations of the science behind the story, including hundreds of illustrations.
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