Zack, By reading your post I realized its not a perfect world. May be you can bring perfection to Android tutorials to start with
On Aug 21, 3:20 pm, Zack Podany <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
