[android-beginners] Re: Hello, Android the book

2009-06-08 Thread Wayne Wenthin
I'll second on both of these choices. Plus Mark is pretty on the ball when someone snafu's their password. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: Musashi Baka wrote: Hello Android is indeed excellent. My personal favorite is The busy coders guide to

[android-beginners] Re: Hello, Android the book

2009-06-06 Thread Mark Murphy
ayush wrote: the Busy Coders Guide has been the single most useful resource during my brief stint with android. for a newcomer, it does a great job of explaining the concepts in a concise step-by-step manner. even though i have a J2ME background, the concept of using XML to define elements,

[android-beginners] Re: Hello, Android the book

2009-06-06 Thread grakhul
I will be buying the busy coders... As soon as I finish this one. Thanks for the feedback guys. On Jun 6, 10:54 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: ayush wrote: the Busy Coders Guide has been the single most useful resource during my brief stint with android. for a newcomer, it

[android-beginners] Re: Hello, Android the book

2009-06-05 Thread Steve
I'll second that! And it packs a lot of very good material in only 200 pages, so a great way to get an intro to Android dev in a short time. On Jun 4, 4:43 pm, grakhul grak...@gmail.com wrote: So I went into Borders and bought the book in the subject line. Just my way of keeping open source

[android-beginners] Re: Hello, Android the book

2009-06-05 Thread Sean Hodges
Yep, I third that. A great beginners book. Keeps you interested with lots of examples. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Stevesteveoliv...@gmail.com wrote: I'll second that!  And it packs a lot of very good material in only 200 pages, so a great way to get an intro to Android dev in a short

[android-beginners] Re: Hello, Android the book

2009-06-05 Thread Musashi Baka
Hello Android is indeed excellent. My personal favorite is The busy coders guide to Android development. I purchased the e-book (pdf) which came with two other books (The advanced guide, and the tutorial) for free. I primarily purchased it because of the 1 year update guarantee, and with the sdk

[android-beginners] Re: Hello, Android the book

2009-06-05 Thread ayush
i've purchased both the books - Hello Android and Busy Coders Guide and after two months (and 4 android applications developed) here are my thoughts - the Busy Coders Guide has been the single most useful resource during my brief stint with android. for a newcomer, it does a great job of