I've never developed apps before, but I've found myself with "all the time in the world" to do it, and hopefully make a potential job out of it, and build a portfolio for future "real" job opportunities. So, the first project I want to make seems like a mix of easy and hard. Easy to program the interface, hard to figure out the API's I need.
Indeed, I'm a beginner. My question for anyone who could help, is where would I find more "tutorial-based" documentation to get pointed in the right direction? And even more specifically, what API's would I need to focus on? The project I'm intending to work on is, as the subject says, a means to share GPS data to another device, in my case I want to use either my T-Mobile Wing with TomTom mobile, or my netbook with some other turn-by-turn GPS system installed, in conjuction with the GPS built into the G1. Since it's taking a while (as all development does) for the big Navigation providers to come out with a proper turn-by-turn solution that DOES NOT require network coverage to come out, I figured I'd find a way to bridge the gap. I had a bluetooth GPS receiver I used before with my Wing, but the charger cable frayed and finally broke. So I'm looking at maybe providing NMEA data over a bluetooth COM port from the G1. If I can figure out how to do it. So any help is greatly appreciated, and I will gladly release anything I come up with back to the community for the minority who might find a use for the app. In preparation I have installed Eclipse and the latest Android SDK, also completed the Hello Android tutorial, but still have little understanding of how to do more "practical" work. I know from toying with Visual Studio that Microsoft provided an amazing "WYSIWYG" IDE, but the Android/Eclipse combo sure doesn't make developing THAT easy. Thanks in advance. Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
