Saving Data on Android
Jennifer Bailey, Aldo Olivares Dominguez & Dean Djermanović
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About the Authors
Jennifer Bailey is an author of this book. She is a full-time
professor at Aims Community College for the past 8 years. She
teaches computer science courses utilizing Java, C++ and Python as
well as applied certificates in Android Development, iOS
Development and C#. Prior to teaching, she was a C# developer in
the financial industry for 7 years. Jenn is a hobbyist developer in
many platforms, specializing most in Android and loves to learn
new things and share her knowledge with others. When she's not at
the computer or presenting and teaching a new technology, she
enjoys spending time with her teenage daughter enjoying the
outdoors in beautiful Colorado.
Aldo Olivares Dominguez is an author of this book. He is a
software engineer at Oracle where he has been creating web
services and software applications for clients around the world for
more than four years. He has also been developing Android
Applications as a freelancer for more than seven years and is the
author of many courses and tutorials about Android Development
on platforms such as Udemy and Raywenderlich.com
Dean Djermanović is an author of this book. He's an experienced
Android developer from Croatia working at Five Agency where he
works on Rosetta Stone app for learning languages which has over
5 million downloads and almost 500 000 monthly active users.
Previously, he's been a part of two other mobile development
agencies in Croatia where he worked on many smaller custom
mobile solutions for various industries. Very passionate about
Android, software development, and technology in general with a
particular interest in software architecture. He is always trying to
learn more, exchange knowledge with others, improve in every
aspect of life, and become the best version of himself.
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About the Editors
Filip Babic is a technical editor of this book. He is an experienced
Android developer from Croatia, working at the Five Agency,
building world-known applications, such as the RosettaStone
language-learning application and AccuWeather, the globally
known weather reporting app. He's also a Google Developer Expert
for Android, trying to give back to the community everything he's
learned over the years. Previously he worked at COBE d.o.o., a
German-owned mobile agency, which is partners with the biggest
German media company. He's enthusiastic about the Android
ecosystem, focusing extensively on applying Kotlin to Android
applications, and building scalable, testable and user-friendly
applications.
Faud Kamal is a technical editor of this book. He provides mobile
strategy, architecture & development for the Health & Fitness
markets. If you’ve ever been to an airport, you’ve likely seen his
work - the flight arrival and departure screens are a Flash 7
interface he wrote towards the beginning of the millennium. He
can be contacted through anaara.com.
Massimo Carli is the final pass editor of this book. Massimo has
been working with Java since 1995 when he co-founded the first
Italian magazine about this technology http://www.mokabyte.it.
After many years creating Java desktop and enterprise application,
he started to work in the mobile world. In 2001 he wrote his first
book about J2ME. After many J2ME and Blackberry applications,
Massimo then started to work with Android in 2008. The same year
he wrote the first Italian book about Android, a best seller on
Amazon.it. That was the first of a series of 10 books about Android
and Kotlin. Massimo worked at Yahoo and Facebook and he's
actually Senior Mobile Engineer at Spotify. He's a musical theatre
lover and a supporter of the soccer team S.P.A.L.
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About the Ar/st
Vicki Wenderlich is the designer and artist of the cover of this
book. She is Ray’s wife and business partner. She is a digital artist
who creates illustrations, game art and a lot of other art or design
work for the tutorials and books on raywenderlich.com. When she’s
not making art, she loves hiking, a good glass of wine and
attempting to create the perfect cheese plate.
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