You are right. There are many tutorials out there, but few that take advantage of sound pedagogical principles. Motorola does a little better, but their tutorials assume you are developing for one of their phones using their developer kit instead of Google's.
That said, I think it is unfortunate that you said "text tutorials". Why? Because some people will take that as an encouragement to worsen the already disastrous trend to pretend they are making a better tutorial just because it is video instead of text! But this, of course, is not what makes a tutorial good: what makes it good is getting the user involved in using what has just been presented to him. http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/How-To-Write-Effective-Tutorials/12606 and: http://www.chillibreeze.com/tutorials/Tutorial-HowtoWriteATutorial.asp both make some pretty intelligent observations about the difference between a good tutorial and the much more common kind -- the useless kind. So which tutorials are good for Android? I have to admit, I haven't found any REALLY good ones: but I do like Cyril Mottier's at http://www.pointgphone.com/android/cyril-mottier. His explanation of Intents is well worth having to copy-and-paste into the Google translator should your French not be up to snuff;) On May 23, 9:30 pm, Onomp <[email protected]> wrote: > Are there any good resources out there.. its very pain stakingly slow > to grasp the concept of how certain code works and where to place it, > by reading text tutorials alone. > > I'm trying to understand about services and the alarmmanager. > > -- > 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 > athttp://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
