xxvAcknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge all my fantastic editors and the support staff at Apress who worked long
hours and toiled so very hard on this book to make it the ultimate Absolute Beginner Android title.
Matthew Moodie, for his work as the Lead Editor on the book, and for his experience and guidance
during the process of making this book one of the great Android beginner titles.
Mark Powers, for his work as the Coordinating Editor on the book, and for his constant diligence in
making sure I hit or surpassed my deadlines.
Ralph Moore and Kezia Endsley, for their work as the Copy Editors on this book, and for their
close attention to detail, and for conforming the text to the current Apress book writing standards.
Chad Darby, for his work as the Technical Reviewer on the book, and for making sure I didn’t make
any programming mistakes. Java code with mistakes does not run properly, if at all, unless they are
very lucky mistakes, which is quite rare in computer programming these days.
Frank Serafine, my close friend, the world’s finest and most respected sound designer, and a
popular rock musician, for contributing the audio samples used in this book. These audio samples
are from his stellar (no pun intended) work on some of the world’s most popular science fiction and
action adventure movies and television shows, including but not limited to Star Trek and Hunt for
Red October.
Finally, I’d like to acknowledge Oracle for acquiring Sun Microsystems and for continuing to
enhance Java so that it remains the premiere open source programming language, and Google,
for making Android the premiere open source operating system and for acquiring ON2’s VP8 video
codec and making it available to multimedia producers on the Android and HTML5 platforms.