Screaming Penguin

http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/139256/Unlocking-Android?from=rss

Overall Michael J. Ross gives the book an 8/10 rating. He covers a lot of ground in his review, and has some good things to say, and some bad. On the bad side he thinks it's a bit more in depth and not as introductory as billed (and I am not sure if that's bad, if the billing was wrong that's a valid issue, but it's a better book with more depth, IMO), you can't download all the code at once (its a Google Code hosting thing using SVN), and he has a few pedantic issues with usage. For example, "internet" and "web" not being capitalized. (I like them not capitalized and many publishers and style guides now do too - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_capitalization_conventions.)

All in all the review seems mechanically in depth (ToC, sections/chapters, etc), and fair enough, but there isn't a lot of real meat in it (IMO). I get the impression (though it may be incorrect), that the reviewer only read the first few chapters and then skimmed the rest. To be honest, I think chapters 3-7 and 11 are the best ones in the book (oh and BTW, I wrote those ;) - yes, I am joking about those being the best).

Thanks go to /. and to Mr. Ross for the review.

Oh, and I will fix the download code all at once thing. I will make an artifact from and SVN export and post it on the Google Code site.