"The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development" Just got one myself.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> wrote: > The Java book is good.. Oriely has some great books as well for learning > Java. Perhaps the best resource I've found on Android.. I keep plugging > this so I am thinking I'll get a free year out of it (Mark?? ;).. is Mark > Murphy's online books. For $40, you get 3 online books that are updated > every so often and you get the updates for a year as part of the price. The > best part is Mark has a forum for the book as well as you'll see him > replying here on this forum quite a bit. I won't knock the other books, the > few on android I found were pretty good, but having the knowledge of Mark, > along with some of the android team like Dianne, Romain and a few others > here, has taught me a ton already. Google Mark Murphy online books (always > forget the name!!), you'll find it. CommonsWare I think it is, or the site > he sells it from. > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Anthoni <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Sanj, >> >> I was also in this same predicament a few days ago. >> Desperately wanted to learn Android programming, but knew smatterings >> of Java code. >> >> What I did was the following :- >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Purchase "Sams Teach Yourself Java In 21 Days" >> Purchase "Java Generics and Collections" (Note: Android heavily uses >> Generics so you need a firm grasp on them) >> Purchase "Hello Android" >> >> There are also lots of bookmarks and tutorial sites ready to read and >> digest once you know your way around the >> basics of Java. Last week I got the Sams book, on Saturday I deployed >> my first Android application to the >> emulator. I still have lots more to learn but I am looking forward to >> the journey. >> >> Regards >> anthoni >> >> On Jan 25, 3:59 am, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> wrote: >> > You are definitely going to want to learn Java first. Android should >> > come >> > long after it. You can try, but will find yourself missing quite a bit >> > and >> > getting stuck a lot if you try to learn Java and Android at the same >> > time. >> > Android is one of those things you do after you understand Java. To >> > understand Java will take months of learning, practicing, etc. I'd say >> > most >> > developers take quite a bit longer to really understand the internals of >> > how >> > the JVM works, the language, and a good handle on a lot of the libraries >> > you >> > will need. >> > >> > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:16 PM, sanj <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > hi,i m very new on mobile application development. i want to learn >> > > Android. but i dont know where to start actually. i tried defferent >> > > web including developer.android and i deffernt books as well. But >> > > problem is i dnt know java at all. And all most everywere i found they >> > > write some code and then traslate it in android code to explane. but >> > > person like me who have no idea about any of it is very tough. So that >> > > is best proctice- first learn java then Android or learn android with >> > > part of java (onbly required to understand android). sorry for bad >> > > english. >> > >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > > Groups "Android Developers" group. >> > > To post to this group, send email to >> > > [email protected] >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > >> > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> >> > > For more options, visit this group at >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en
