Question

I just started looking at the android framework and was wondering what was the best way going about getting good at it. I started with a text game and created a simple bubbleWrap game next. But am not sure if I’m going about it the right way now, so I thought I’d ask some of you more experienced Android people out here. Are there any courses online that would be beneficial? Any books that helped ya’ll?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Here I m listing some forums that may help you getting started with Android:

• http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html . Besides getting started, it also teaches to build a hello world app, demonstrates how to build menus and work with preferences, a nice content provider example and how to make a file browser. At last it demonstrates how to deploy your app onto a real device.

• http://marakana.com/forums/android/examples/ This is one of my best recommendations. Some very nice demo projects are hosted on the site.

• http://smartandroidians.blogspot.com/ Nice tutorials by Nithin Warreir. The blog contains some code snippets that help during development of big projects. One can learn implementation of various tools of Android development easily here.

• http://www.anddev.org/ Anddev forum is pretty famous for having a large number of online users everytime. For any query you can easily post a question in this forum. Wait for the help that comes in just a few minutes.

• http://slideme.org/ Besides the Official Marketplace, this is another marketplace that hosts developer’s applications. For registering as developer in the official marketplace, one needs to pay $25, here lies the advantage of joining SlideMe, it is free..!!

Also try two books for Android Application development:
Android 2 Application Development

OReilly Android Application
Development and Wrox Professional
Android 2 Application Development

Hope that helps…