droidhut highly recommends the CommonsWare series of books on Android development. They provide a very thorough introduction to the platform and give readers a head start on a range of advanced topics. The source code is provided for all examples and the author, Mark Murphy is very accessible and dedicated to the Android community.

The books are offered on a yearly subscription basis, so you get access to all books and updates for a year and you get to keep your copies at the end of your subscription.

All the books are published with the Four to Free (42F) guarantee, which means after four years or 4,000 copies sold, a book edition is released under the Creative Commons license for free, non-commercial distribution and reuse. Now that’s commitment to the community!

They also offer a Bug Bounty program that allows you to receive 6 month subscription codes whenever you identify a legitimate error in one of their publications. At droidhut, we know from experience that they stick to their word on this.

There isn’t a better value resource for learning about Android development.

Check it out for yourself: http://commonsware.com/index.html