Android app development for dummies book?

has anyone ever read/skimmed through this book? it is valuable/very helpful to people such as myself, who are comp开发者_如何学JAVAlete noobs to android programming? I am thinking of purchasing one on amazon for $20 but dont know if its going to be a really helpful book.

Also, when i skim through the book on the amazon wesite, it seems to be missing alot of stuff. is that just amazon's preview method or is the book really that simple?

The Amazon preview only shows specific excepts. I learned exclusively from online tutorials and the official documentation, but if you prefer to learn from a book, check out this SO question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1114287/good-book-for-beginning-android-development