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Acknowledgments
During the past few months, I have learned that writing a book demands a significant
personal effort, but, at the same time, it is the unequivocal confluence of the work, ideas,
dreams, and passions of countless individuals. Since it would be impossible to track all
the threads coming into the junction represented by this book, I will acknowledge the
invaluable contributions of those who are most directly related to this project, knowing I
will leave out many others.
I would like to start by extending my most earnest gratitude to Ben Fry, Casey Reas,
and Daniel Shiffman, without whom this book would not have been possible. Their
tireless work with Processing has enabled people from all over the world to use code in
art and design, and made it possible for those coming from the sciences and engineering
(like myself) to discover the possibilities of visual literacy within technology. Very special
recognition goes to Jonathan Feinberg, who together with Ben, wrote the initial version of
the Android mode the book is based upon, as well as to Pardis Sabeti, for supporting and
encouraging my Processing work with her tireless enthusiasm. I also want to thank all the
members of the Processing Foundation for putting forward a framework that promotes
learning, diversity, and inclusion in the creative coding community and that empowers
work such as mine.
Daniel Sauter and Jesus Duran made very important contributions to the Processing
for Android project early on with their Ketai library, and also by organizing the Mobile
Processing Conference at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, to which I was invited as speaker and workshop instructor in all editions from
2011 to 2013. These events were key to sustaining the initial momentum of the project
into the present, and so my deepest recognition goes to them.
I would like to make a very special mention of all the Google Summer of Code
students who worked on various Processing for Android projects during the past
years: Sara Di Bartolomeo and Rupak Daas (GSoC 2017), Mohammad Umair (GSoC
2015), and Imil Ziyaztdinov (2014). Their contributions were absolutely crucial to the
continued improvement and growth of Processing for Android. I am also very grateful
for the existence of the GSoC program, which allowed these extraordinary coding and
mentorship experiences with students of diverse backgrounds and origins.
Many thanks to Daniel Murphy, Shayan Amir-hosseini, Richard The, and Jen
Kurtzman from Google Creative Lab in New York, who supported the renewed efforts
behind the Processing for Android project during 2016, which led to this book.
As I mentioned at the beginning, a book like this is the result of the work of many
people, but among them the technical reviewers played a critical role in ensuring that
the book is correct, well structured, and easy to understand by its final audience. My
reviewers, to whom I am deeply indebted, are Anthony Tripaldi, Kate Hollenbach, Jose
Luis García del Castillo y López, and Gottfried Haider.
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