Mobile devices have evolved to focus on rich media production and consumption. Developers of mobile applications are able to create applications that allow people to play, capture, and share media in a variety of new ways on mobile devices. The popularity of Android has soared in part because the platform offers developers a rich set of capabilities including access to media capturing and playback functions.

Pro Android Media provides concise and clear instruction on how to utilize the media APIs made available through Android to create dynamic apps. It takes you from a simple means to gain access to the camera to complex video capture and sharing examples. It also covers sound, graphics, painting, and more—everything you need to make your app come "alive."

After reading this book, the app you create will showcase the best of multimedia that Android has to offer. What you’ll learn Develop graphics, music, video and rich media apps for Android smartphones and tablets Build touchscreen input features into Android apps that allow users to draw, paint, and do other creative forms of input. Turn the Android smartphone into a full fledged media player How to integrate and use location based services and media related web service APIs Who this book is for This book is aimed primarily at the growing market of Android developers. It is written in such a way that it may be used by those who are familiar with Android, but have no experience developing applications that deal with images, audio, or video.

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Shawn Van Every是一位資深的移動和流媒體顧問，他幫助公司更好地利用與音頻和視頻相關的新興技術，主要是開發移動和流媒體應用程序。他的客戶範圍從19 Entertainment、MoMA和迪斯尼(Disney)，到Morgan Stanley、雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)和紐約大學醫學院(NYU Media School)，同時還包括無數的創業公司和其他小型客戶。

此外，Shawn是紐約大學交互式電信計劃(Interactive Telecommunications Program)中通信領域內的一位兼職助理教授。他的教學範圍很廣泛，包括參與性和社會媒體、編程、移動技術以及交互式電話等課程。他於2008年獲得瞭大衛佩恩卡特(David Payne Carter)卓越教學奬。

他在許多會議和技術展示中演示、展示和介紹瞭其工作內容(包括O'Reilly的新興電話，O'Reilly的新興技術、ACM Multimedia、Vloggercon以及Strong Angle II)。他是Open Media Developers Summit，Beyond Broadcast(開放媒體開發者峰會，超越廣播)(2006)以及iPhoneDevCamp NYC(NYC iPhone開發夏令營)的聯閤組織者。

Shawn在紐約布法羅市的SUNY大學獲得多媒體研究(Media Study)方嚮的學士學位，並在紐約大學獲得交互式電信方嚮的碩士學位。