Hello all, I just joined this group only a week or so ago and I finally programmed a small 'Currency Converter' sample and changed it just a little. I really love my Android G1 phone and love the fact that I can create apps on it.
Installing Eclipse, the SDK, DroidDraw, Java stuff, and all the other tools really took a little while for me but I finally got up to speed on it. Then it took a little while to get the Android Emulator working but I finally got my little program to run good on the Emulator. BUT, the hardest part for me was to figure out how to get my app on my G1 Android phone. The first thing that took me so long was realizing that I had to download the Windows Device Driver for the phone so that Eclipse can 'see' it. (Of course I had to install it after I downloaded it...I forgot about that for a little while.) Then I had to figure out how to set-up Eclipse to recognize my phone. Well, it all worked out. I was pretty surprised at how different apps can look on the actual phone. Seems like a person can debug better when they look at how the app acts on the phone. For all of you total beginners like myself, I just want to say that the best way to figure stuff out, to me, seems to simply keep on a googl'in till ya get it! Read the documentation, go through tutorials and samples like there's no tomorrow, look on youtube and google for tutorials, google 'free ebooks' (I was amazed at the cool free ebooks I found both for Android and for Java). Again, I just wanted to say thanks to all you google-groupers and to let you know that just reading the code (even though I may not understand a lot of it) helps me in the long run. I'm now looking forward to learning from anywhere I can learn from and I'm thanking you all for sharing your knowledge. Thanks...al -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android 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
