That's the one. Thanks Temitope
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Temitope Akinwande <[email protected]>wrote: > "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]> > <android-developers%[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]<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]<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]<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. 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