What is the best way to learn development on Android Platform?

Posted by anujkk on Monday May 30, 2011 @08:53AM
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I am a web developer and have never developed any mobile application. I want to learn mobile application development on Android Platform. What is the best approach to learn android development? Also any good books or reference site will be helpful.

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Re:What is the best way to learn development on Android Plat... by iamsidd2k7 on Monday May 30, 2011 @10:25AM (#2599457)

There are tons of resource on Youtube. Search "Programming Android" and you will find good videos.

From a high level view, what you ideally like to do 1. Learn how to setup dev. environment 2. Learn what are activities and actions 3. Learn basic UI elements (buttons,radios) 4. Learn advanced UI elements and how to customize them (listviews) 5. Learn about Location Manager, Audio

This would be good starting point. You can use Professional Android 2 book for reference. Keep on creating more apps, use stackoverflow. I used to all the time when I was getting weired bugs.

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Re:What is the best way to learn development on Android Plat... by nextparadigms on Monday May 30, 2011 @09:23AM (#2599300)

Learn a bit of Java first if you don't know it. Try thenewboston's tutorials on youtube. You can also find some Android tutorials on youtube.

Also go to anddev.org, androidsnippets.com and p-xr.com for code snippets.

I prefer learning with the video tutorials a lot more. It's too bad there aren't too many of them right now, but you can find a couple of decent series on Youtube. Do the projects in the same time with them. There are also several books for beginners. Just google top android books for beginners, or something like that.

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Re:What is the best way to learn development on Android Plat... by lewispb on Monday May 30, 2011 @08:55AM (#2599231)

Start here! - http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world...

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Re:What is the best way to learn development on Android Plat... by rlawson on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @07:58AM (#2606879)

Don't rule out just writing a mobile web app - then you get Android and iPhone. jquery mobile + phonegap are your friends!

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