I would not recommend this book to anybody. I've a working knowledge on javascript but not so much on the jQuery. As 80% of the code found in the book used jQuery, I need to pick up jQuery from the the online sources as the basic are not provided in the book. This is fine for me. However, the irritating part was when I tried the codes ("todolist" apps from chapter 2 to 4) most of the codes are either not able to run or need some modifications. I've spent many days try to get the codes running. It's just a waste of the time and effort. the authors seriously needs to ensure that all codes in the book/online are running fine before publishing this book. It's just too painful to get the example in this book to run.

I was up and running fast! Coming in with little web experience and some general programming experience I was worried (1) I would get lost quick or (2) I'd get frustrated with my lack of progress, but neither happened. In fact I found I was moving at a pretty good clip. The authors start you at the beginning (approachable) but quickly get into interesting material. do list, then to local storage, cloud storage, maps, social apis, graphics/animation, etc. You'll be in html, css, javascript the whole time with the help of Google App Engine, jsonengine, and others.

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I found this book very useful. I was developing Android application using native APIs - Android SDK and Java. This book makes a compelling case that you can develop native Android application using HTML, Javascript and CSS. If you are familiar with web technologies - same knowledge can be applied for Android development.

I could have used better explanation about some of the topics. May be few simple block diagram explaining component relationships or few more words before delving into code would have helped.

Overall. this book was great help -Must have book.