I would recommend reading some books. When I first began looking at Android (and I have 42 years in IT) I found the online documentation did nothing to help with the concepts.
Android has some very important concepts that need to be fully understood - to name just a few: Intents, Pending Intents, Broadcast Receivers, Services, Data Services, Fragments etc. and the online documentation does little to explain these things for that is not its purpose. I would recommend finding books that have real life useful worked examples in them that you can try out and learn from. My collection contains the following:- The Android Developers Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK James Steele and Nelson To Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey Programming Android Zigurd Mednieks, G. Blake Meike, Laird Dom.. Beginning Android 4 Application Development Wei-Meng Lee Hello, Android Burnette Android Application Development For Dummies Donn Felker All but "Hello Android" are Kindle books from Amazon whilst "Hello Android" is available in a number of formats (including Kindle) from The Pragmatic Bookshelf. I found the last one (part of the For Dummies series) and the first one (the Cookbook) really good. The Beginning Android 4 I bought recently to get updated re ICS - in particular to learn more about Fragments. I would recommend reading the customer reviews on Amazon for these, and for Mark's stuff, and perhaps that will help you decide what you'd like to do next. Back in the 70's, when you set out to write a computer program, you had your language and you devised your entire solution using that language. Today everything is far far better but it relies on Objects with Properties and Methods and unless you understand what is sitting there at your fingertips waiting to be played with then you end up a bit stuck. That's where the books come in handy. Enjoy - I think Android is great. I'm not an Android expert but there are people out there using my Apps so I must be getting something right :) Kind Regards Steve On Monday, 2 July 2012 15:34:59 UTC+1, G. Blake Meike wrote: > > Mark's stuff is, indeed, awesome. I humbly suggest Programming Android, > as well... > > G. Blake Meike > Marakana > > The second edition of Programming Android is now on-line: > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023005.do > > > On Sunday, July 1, 2012 7:12:39 PM UTC-7, Jason Hsu wrote: >> >> I'm considering purchasing an Android development book. The fact that I >> have published my first Android app (Upgrade Your Cereal, available at >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jasonhsu.upgradeyourcereal) >> >> certifies that I understand the very basics. At the same time, I have just >> barely scratched the surface. >> >> I've been finding that most of the tutorials out there miss critical >> details needed to make the apps work properly. I need to move well beyond >> the Hello World stage. >> >> What Android development books would you recommend? I'm considering the >> purchase of _Android in Practice_. It has great reviews on Amazon, and it >> sounds very practical. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
