Hi Azelis and welcome to Android development! :) I'm pretty much new to programming. Android is my first software development experience aside from some relational database stuff I did years ago. I pretty much had to start learning from scratch several months ago. The first recommendation I have for you is to learn Java. I took this free online course:
http://www.javapassion.com/javaintro/ I was new to both java and xml, but I found the xml easier to pick up than the java. Your C++ experience will help you learn the java faster I think. I also read this free Android development PDF book: http://andbook.anddev.org/ Which started to fill in a lot of the blanks for me about Android development. And I purchased the Professional Android Application Development paperback after browsing Android coding books at the local book store (so far it's my fav Android coding book). I still have lots more to learn, but I am on my 3rd or 4th app and I'm really enjoying developing for Android. I also made good use of this group, so I encourage you to also. Good luck! -- tinyang -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Azelis DeLano Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 3:22 AM To: Android Beginners Subject: [android-beginners] Android SDK For Beginners? Hello, my name is Zack but I go by Azelis. Introduction's out of the way, let's get down to it. >From my history of programming, I know that languages based on other languages only make sense if you have extensive background. For example when I started learning NQC for the Mindstorms Invention System it was recommended that I take some C++ tutorials first. However most of these provided me with information I would never need to know (system speciffic stuff). That brings me to where I find myself. Within a week I will be receiving my G1 and I am very interested in programming for it. I have a great amount of programming experience as follows (in chronological order): AppleSoft Integer Basic QBASIC JavaScript Visual Basic Visual C++ TI89 Basic PHP Linden Scripting Language and recently a bit of ASM Basically, with my use of JS and PHP, I am no stranger to the DOM. However I found even the Hello Android tutorial a little difficult to follow, using data types, methods, models, and terms I was unfamiliar with (not to mention that I've never worked with XML, only style sheets). While I was able to kind of understand what was going on, by the time I got to the notepad example I was completely lost. Let me also qualify that I tried learning Java once before to create website applets (yeah, back in those olden days) and most tutorials I found convered very speciffic information that I really didn't need to know. So given my experience with outside tutorials that are only of peripheral interest to me and the knowledge that Android doesn't use the everyday flavor Java VM, is there a Java for Android for Beginners style reference anywhere? Barring that, is there a tutorial/set of tutorials anyone else who was in my position can recommend? Android may very well be the first place solo programmers like myself have a chance to create mainstream popular mobile applications so if such a reference doesn't exist I may well have to spearhead it. - Azelis the White Wolf No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.13.49/2293 - Release Date: 8/20/2009 6:06 PM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
