I have actually found a resource that is working well for me. It's a book called The Busy Coder's guide to Android. This explains a lot more (although not everything) and I find myself starting to learn how things work. I did go through andbook and found it to be either badly typed or mis-translated and very lacking in explanations and examples (I got the latest version right off the site). Also it ends very abruptly leading me to believe it has not even been proof read yet, let alone finished.
Basically, while I am finding the resources and examples I need, I do feel my situation is still fairly common and since my position has often been the guy who stumbles along and then teaches others once he figures it out, I expect I'll be creating or helping to create total beginners' content once I get going. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > > Azelis DeLano wrote: > > 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? > > Most of the books/tutorials that I have seen assume some level of Java > experience. You don't need tons of Java to get going with Android, but > you do need to know Java's take on OO (classes, objects, inheritance, > polymorphism), popular classes in java.lang/java.io/java.util, etc. > > Conversely, things you specifically don't need to know include: > > -- any existing Java UI framework (Swing, SWT, JavaME) or widget > libraries for those frameworks (Glazed Lists, etc.) > -- any server-side Java frameworks (JavaEE, servlets, etc.) > -- JDBC (Android ships with SQLite and has a thin non-JDBC interface to it) > -- the enterprise-y frameworks (JAX-this, WS-that, etc.) > > The API reference (a.k.a., class library) on the Android developer site > and in the SDK is the definitive list of what is built into Android and > is accessible from your projects: > > http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html > > > Barring that, is there a tutorial/set of > > tutorials anyone else who was in my position can recommend? > > For Java? Personally, I learned it so long ago that I haven't used much > of the current resources. _Head First Java_ is pretty popular in terms > of Java books. > > For Android, there are number of books on the market: > > http://wiki.andmob.org/books > > (and, yes, I wrote some of 'em) > > Tutorials are mostly in blog posts, plus sites like AndroidSnippets. I > have a handful of them aggregated here: > > http://wiki.andmob.org/samplecode > > > 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. > > Sounds great! > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 1.0 Available! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
