How to develope applications for the android?

[Evol1]

Hi everyone I am have been blown away by this phone. Knowing how they are trying to create almost a community like feel behind the development of this phone just inspired me to get involved. I've been looking for where to begin, but I can not find anything on exactly where to begin. I have downloaded the new sdk 1.0. I was going to get the "Eclipse IDE" which is in this Setup Tutorial, but I don't know exactly what all this is for. I have never learned how to program yet but have a real strong intrest in it. I am a very new to this. I am also running windows vista.

Based upon everything that I mentioned. Is there a place where I should begin? Can someone recommend some tutorials for complete noobs? I greatly appreciate everything in advance.

-Evol1

[EwanG]

The "Hello World" application that Google provides, as well as the other projects in the Samples directory of the SDK, are not a bad place to start. The code is all pretty well documented, and if you have an idea in mind that one of the tutorials covers partly, you can use that as your base.

I would definitely recommend getting Eclipse and following the instructions for setting up the SDK and tools using it. Will catch your mistakes (most of them anyway) before you even try to save the file.

FWIW...

[lambedan]

I would recommend reading the java tutorial at java.sun.com
Android uses the java programming language with a modified library.
The tutorial that android has IMO would not serve to well for complete noobs. It is not bad for programmers though.
I am an experienced java developer and I have been developing on android for a few weeks and have found it to be easy for java programmers.

[kiran]

I just want to see a desktop-browser-like mobile browser on Android.I should be able to view and edit google docs,full flash support on Android.

[EwanG]

Originally Posted by kiran

I just want to see a desktop-browser-like mobile browser on Android.I should be able to view and edit google docs,full flash support on Android.

While I'm not sure what this has to do with this topic (developing for Android), I believe that Google has already announced that a version of their Chrome browser will be part of the Android platform. So you should be good there...

[abisong]

If you are completely new to programming and Java there is the BlueJ project that teaches Object Oriented programming using Java to newbies and is located http://www.bluej.org/

There is now a BlueJ plugin for NetBeans 6.X and this link should help you set it up: http://java.sun.com/developer/techni...s/tools/bluej/


Anthony Bisong
jpWireless Technologies

[Evol1]

thank you everyone. I hope that this will all help out. Im gonna start by learning java then eventually start working on android.