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A hands-on guide to building mobile applications, Professional Android Application Development features concise and compelling examples that show you how to quickly construct real-world mobile applications for Android phones. Fully up-to-date for version 1.0 of the Android software development kit, it covers all the essential features, and explores the advanced capabilities of Android (including GPS, accelerometers, and background Services) to help you construct increasingly complex, useful, and innovative mobile applications for Android phones.

What this book includes

• An introduction to mobile development, Android, and how to get started.
• An in-depth look at Android applications and their life cycle, the application manifest, Intents, and using external resources.
• Details for creating complex and compelling user interfaces by using, extending, and creating your own layouts and Views and using Menus.
• A detailed look at data storage, retrieval, and sharing using preferences, files, databases, and Content Providers.
• Instructions for making the most of mobile portability by creating rich map-based applications as well as using location-based services and the geocoder.
• A look at the power of background Services, using threads, and a detailed look at Notifications.
• Coverage of Android's communication abilities including SMS, the telephony APIs, network management, and a guide to using Internet resources
• Details for using Android hardware, including media recording and playback, using the camera, accelerometers, and compass sensors.
• Advanced development topics including security, IPC, advanced 2D / 3D graphics techniques, and user–hardware interaction.

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone interested in creating applications for the Android mobile phone platform. It includes information that will be valuable whether you're an experienced mobile developer or making your first foray, via Android, into writing mobile applications. It will give the grounding and knowledge you need to write applications using the current SDK, along with the flexibility to quickly adapt to future enhancements..
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If you’re accountable for accounting in a mid-level business, Microsoft Dynamics GP accounting software can be your friend. Microsoft Dynamics GP For Dummies improves the friendship by highlighting the most useful and practical features, dispelling the most common misconceptions, and letting you in on the best tips and tricks — all in plain English!

Microsoft Dynamics GP For Dummies shows you how to set up and use this modular accounting program. You’ll learn to customize Dynamics Great Plains, get around the program, create a company, build an effective chart of accounts, and maintain a general ledger. You’ll find out how to:

• Create invoices and bill your customers, manage receipts, and easily match payments to invoices
• Set up vendors quickly and easily
• Customize GP fit your business perfectly and make the home page more efficient
• Work with the modules you’ll use most often in the Purchasing, Sales, Inventory, and Financial series
• Safeguard your database and set up a disaster recovery plan containing all the right steps
• Use Professional Services Tools and utilities to find and fix data discrepancies
• Get inventory under control
• Close your books at year end and use shortcuts to easily print reports from all the data you’ve collected
• Save keystrokes with Quick Journal and batch frequency
• Leverage the interoperability between Dynamics GP and Microsoft Office applications
• Make upgrading hassle-free

Microsoft Dynamics GP For Dummies helps you make this sometimes-complex program do your bidding, which might account for your rising popularity in the office!.
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The most comprehensive and helpful guide ever written for selecting and equipping a cruising sailboat

Whether you’re a coastal or offshore cruiser, you’ll find your most pressing concerns treated with the know-how that makes for skillful, confident cruising in Nigel Calder’s Cruising Handbook. The author -- one of the most respected marine how-to authors on either side of the Atlantic, and author of the universally admired Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual, -- walks you through all key technical and practical aspects of modern cruising systems and equipment, providing you with a summary of the skills necessary for safe, enjoyable sailing.

The first half of the book includes an easy-to-use tabular method for evaluating a boat's suitability for cruising; ideas for workable deck and interior lay-outs and organization; how to choose and configure suitable boat systems for cruising; and how to install gear for trouble free operation.

The book's second half teaches you boat handling skills; core navigational expertise; anchoring techniques; weather understanding; heavy weather expertise; and specific skills for long-term and long-distance cruising..
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This detailed reference book explains the basic aspects of each area within MM before exploring their specific functionality. Readers stand to benefit quickly by developing a comprehensive understanding of MM and by learning how it works and interacts with other SAP modules. All aspects are covered in detail, as are the key "touchpoints" with other modules, such as PP, SD, QM and FI. The author explores important cross-application issues like document management, batch management, and classification. This one-stop resource for MM can also be used by SAP practitioners wanting to discover how MM can benefit their specific areas of expertise. In addition, anyone making a software/application decision can benefit greatly, as this book provides all important functionality and technical configuration details. By reading this book you will be able to fully appreciate the entire breadth of SAP MM, thus significantly boosting your skills and abilities to directly leverage MM functionalities in your daily work. Highlights Include: - MM Organizational Structure - Master Data - Material Master Data - Vendor Master Data - Purchasing Information Data - Material Master Record - Consumption-Based Planning - External Services Management - Financial Integration - Cross-Application Functionality.
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In the 225 years since the United States Constitution was first drafted, no single book has addressed the key questions of what constitutions are designed to do, how they are structured, and why they matter. In From Words to Worlds, constitutional scholar Beau Breslin corrects this glaring oversight, singling out the essential functions that a modern, written constitution must incorporate in order to serve as a nation's fundamental law.

Breslin lays out and explains the basic functions of a modern constitution -- including creating a new citizenry, structuring the institutions of government, regulating conflict between layers and branches of government, and limiting the power of the sovereign. He also discusses the theoretical concepts behind the fundamentals of written constitutions and examines in depth some of the most important constitutional charters from around the world. In assaying how states put structural ideas into practice, Breslin asks probing questions about why -- and if -- constitutions matter.

Solidly argued and engagingly written, this comparative study in constitutional thought demonstrates clearly the key components that a state's foundational document must address. Breslin draws a critically important distinction between constitutional texts and constitutional practice.

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ú This is the only book that demonstrates how to develop a business rules engine. Covers user requirements, data modeling, metadata, and more.
ú A sample application is used throughout the book to illustrate concepts.
ú Includes conceptual overview chapters suitable for management-level readers, including general introduction, business justification, development and implementation considerations, and more.

ú This is the only book that demonstrates how to develop a business rules engine. Covers user requirements, data modeling, metadata, and more.
ú A sample application is used throughout the book to illustrate concepts.
ú Includes conceptual overview chapters suitable for management-level readers, including general introduction, business justification, development and implementation considerations, and more..
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Principles of Breadmaking: Functionality of Raw Materials and Process Steps is designed to give the fundamental principles and science behind the baking rules and recipes most bakers, technologists, and students are accustomed to. Functional properties of ingredients and interactions occurring during each step in the baking process are presented in straightforward chemical and physical terms understandable to anyone with a background in baking. The knowledge gained will allow for the optimization of recipes and processes of all types of bread, including pre-baked breads and frozen doughs.

Most literature on baking emphasizes descriptions of the process or of the equipment. For example, you will find a description of the recipe for hamburger buns that tells you to mix the dough a specific amount of minutes in a specified mixer, etc. Principles of Breadmaking takes a different approach, describing the chemistry and basic physics behind the recipe, what happens with ingredients during mixing, the pros and cons of dough temperatures, conditions for fermentation and proof, and handling of the dough throughout the process. It also describes the transformation of dough into the final product in the oven in terms of heat transfer to the dough and heat transport in the product. By covering the functionality of unit operations and raw materials at this level, the reader is given the foundation needed to optimize recipes and the production process.

Prebaked breads and frozen doughs present their own set of challenges for the baker. This book provides detailed, critical descriptions of the processes involved in creating both. The chapter on prebaked breads discusses cooling, ambient storage, chilled storage, frozen storage, storage in a modified atmosphere, and the rebaking process. Moisture migration, solubility of gases, diffusion of gases, yeast, and drying and condensation are discussed in a chapter dedicated to frozen doughs. Both chapters also include sections on optimizing procedures and recipes.

Principles of Breadmaking: Functionality of Raw Materials and Process Steps is an essential troubleshooting reference for bakers, food technologists, product developers, millers, ingredient suppliers, and newcomers to the bakery business and related industries. In addition, it will be an excellent teaching tool for students learning the fundamentals of breadmaking. It also contains hands-on activities well suited for training sessions and workshops.

Teaches the baking professional how to optimize the recipe for any type of bread
Describes the functionality of raw materials used in breadmaking
Explains the functionality of mixing, fermentation and proof, baking, and cooling
Includes tables of uses for specific carbohydrates
Provides international comparisons of HACCP experiences in baking
Helps the baking technologist select the optimal conditions for making frozen dough and prebaked bread
Supplies the tools for the best results in baking and re-baking
Details the pros and cons of different dough temperatures.
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Food Powders is the first book that addresses key aspects of food powder technology No other book has focused exclusively on food powders, assembling information on their physical properties, production, and functionality, which has been previously published mainly through research and review articles, reports in trade magazines, and symposia presentations.

Written from an engineering perspective, this book is designed and developed as a useful reference for individuals in both the food industry and academia interested in an organized and updated review. The book consists of twelve chapters including several tables, figures, diagrams, and extensive literature citation, and thoroughly covers the practical applications.

Food Powders will be a valuable addition to the food powder technology literature and will promote additional interest in advancing food powders research, development, education and implementation.

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Get up to speed on Symbian OS v7.0s with this new, from the source reference guide.

After a brief introduction to Symbian OS fundamentals the book focuses on describing the interaction between the OS and the application, broadly following the lifecycle of an application. It describes the new features particular to v7.0s and provides conceptual and theoretical underpinnings to give the reader a thorough understanding of the OS.

• Aims to build a general understanding of Symbian OS, not just for a particular smartphone or UI
• Packed with code and examples
• Details advanced features such as user interfaces, files and views, multimedia services and communications, and messaging

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This in-depth guidebook is your ideal companion for implementing service desk projects using SAP Solution Manager 4.0. Its process-oriented description of the Service Desk function, and detailed instructions on implementing the service desk process in your enterprise, are based on a sample representative enterprise and are specifically designed to help you hit the ground running with this important technology. The process modelling is directly followed by a highly detailed look at its practical implementation, with many tips and trick to help you avoid costly mistakes during implementation. Within the pages of this invaluable resource, you'll also learn about all of the specific functions in greater detail, including the solution database, and the bidirectional and web interfaces, plus much more..
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