About the Reviewers
Nayanesh Ramchandra Gupte is an enthusiastic Android professional based in Bangalore—the Silicon Valley of India. He is a full-stack engineer and has been exploring Android for more than 5 years. Until now, he has worked with different organizations and developed more than 40 Android applications. Some of these apps are featured with the Top Developer badge on Google Play. Programming, especially in Java and Android, is not just a part of his career, but his passion as well.
Besides being a software engineer, he works as an Android consultant and is associated with the Google Developers Group based in Bangalore. Writing personal blogs and articles on Java and Android remain a couple of his interests. He works as a professional Android trainer and pursues teaching and illustration as his hobbies.
Associated with one of the e-commerce giants in India, Nayanesh is a part of the core engineering team. He also works closely with the Product and UX team to build a next-generation platform for e-commerce.
You can know more about him at https://about.me/NayaneshGupte, and you can find him on LinkedIn at http://in.linkedin.com/in/nayaneshgupte/.
To begin with, I credit my parents who have always nurtured my dreams and constantly supported me to make them happen. I want to thank my fiancée, Aakanksha, and my in-laws who trusted my dynamic decisions while I was hopping cities and organizations with the aim of improving my career graph. I sincerely want to thank Sudarshan Shetty, my guide, because of whom I got engrossed in Java and Android. His teachings have brought me a long way. I am sure there is much more to explore. I owe a lot to my best buddies, Saurabh and Rahul, since it was all because of them that I decided to get into this field of programming. Lastly, the journey would have been incomplete without my colleagues and mentors, Rishi and Vishal, from whom I learned what passion for programming really is!
Márton Kodok has extensive experience as a web, mobile, and desktop software engineer. He has also been a backend programmer and team leader, where he mostly concluded projects for various U.S. companies. He is a lead developer in various scalable projects and an active contributor to scalable solutions such as Beanstalkd Console and Riak-admin interface. He is an expert in databases and search systems such as Google, BigQuery, and Elasticsearch. He is also an active member of Stack Overflow, has spoken at many conferences, and has mentored many young, talented enthusiasts. You can find him at ro.linkedin.com/in/pentium10 and http://stackoverflow.com/users/243782/pentium10.
Paresh Mayani is a software engineer who has been exploring the horizon of Android development since Cupcake (Android 1.5). He has hands-on experience of designing, building, and publishing Android Apps. His skills range from technical documentation, UX/UI design, code and performance optimization, to writing extensive testing for applications.
He's actively involved in the Android community too—writing blog posts, helping fellow Android developers by posting answers on Stack Overflow, and giving talks around the world. He is among top 0.25% with and manages more than 60,000 reputation points. He is one of the top 10 highest contributors to the Android tag on Stack Overflow.
He is the founder/organizer of the Google Developers Group, Ahmedabad, India. By looking at his experience and his contribution to the Android community, he was recently nominated for the Google Developers Expert program led by Google. You can find more about him at his blog, http://www.technotalkative.com/.