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Hi I have been programming with Java for a while and now I want to learn Android development.There are plenty of books and I myself have bought one 4 months ago but dident have time to read it and now while surfing the internet I found that at the end of 2011 android 4.0 was released and thee book I have covers android 3.0.
This is the book I have:
Pro Android 3
What I wanted to ask is if this is a good book for a beginner android developer and if not pls recommend a better one and if I shoud get a book for android 4.0 so I dont get confused in diferent types of android versions development?
Such Questions have already been asked on SO.Pro Android3 is a better among all the books I have read.And you can also refer to Reito Meier book as well as Begining Android. These books are the best books.These are the basics for android ,you will not get confused.Instead it will make your base strong.And always Be in touch with android developer site.Its better to concentrate on one book and visit Stackoverflow to clear all your doubts.
Best of Luck for Your Future.Guys Please help a newcomer .Dont discourage them with negative votes.Its better to give a link than downvoting.
read mark murphy books and then go android market and do some small application your own.
if you know java so you can easily comfortable with android within 1 month.
all the best...
Last month I had an examination on Android at university and I also asked the same question to myself. And after a few weeks of reading I think the best "book" (even if it is not a book) is the official Android-developer website. The webmasters restructured it and now it is much better than any book I read. It gives short on-point descriptions on any topic of the android-development. In your case I would start at this ponit: http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fundamentals.html
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Last few days I was struggling with these Facebook implementation things and read a lot of available materials which is a pile of inconsistent scrap.
Currently I'm at stage of creating first login buttons, but classes that Im using according to 2 year old tutorials, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xndi6s9Tn_U
are now deprecated. I also found that a lot of people complain about facebook official documentation because it's deprecated, not working or not complete. But there are things that needs to be programmed. So my question is simple and I would really like to know your suggestions and opinions:
How it is possible to learn basics of programming Facebook API that works in 2014 and where we can find usable material for this?
Usable materials goes together with Facebook SDK for Android by sample applications. Take look, code is best documentation. Login process it's pretty simple.
I was implemented some basic things recently (09.2014) and for me looks like Facebook documentation is good enough in comparison with open source projects. Problem is only they updates SDK and API's too frequently by their dao. And it makes most of 3d party tutorials outdated, but still useful if it's not 2 years old.
First read Facebook SDK tutorial for Android carefully.
Second look into code of sample application.
Try to find useful code samples in GitHub
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I want to start with Android applications development.
I'm very familiar with Computer application languages (Mainly Java, C++, C#, C , Assembly, Php, but some more).
I'm here to request reference for online android development courses in video, such as this course.
Any additional Android course in this style, will be welcomed.
thanks in advance.
The best way is to go to this site and select Android link which is this and then select the book you want and copy the whole name of the book and go to google and type
thebookname ext:pdf
this will show the pdfs and download the original file.This will save your money and time because shipping takes time...
and believe me you will find 97% of the books listed on orielly...
and i think the books from oreilly are very good.
and for begining you should download this
I got started with the Android Cookbook, which is, by their byline "A Crowd-sourced Cookbook on Writing Great Android® Apps"
It has several tutorials that are explained quite well - always handy to refer to the Developers Guide or here (SO), just in case something is not clear.
I hope this helps.
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I want to learn Android development and create mobile apps. What would be the recommended resources (There's too many on the web)?
Obviously http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html & http://developer.android.com/resources/index.html, this should be enough for starters.
If you really learn and exercise what's written there you'll have a very solid foundation. Many other pages might be good but that's where you should start because you'll always come back and learn something new.
As others suggested, http://developer.android.com/index.html should be the bible for learning android. Moreover, as the world of Android is too wide, I would suggest you to take up an idea (NO matter if it is very simple) and then try to search out blogs and tutorials on the particular features you want to implement in the same idea.
Even GitHub provides a lot of ready projects. clone them and try to understand the implementation by Googling the unknown packages and words.
This would give you a better learning experience.
Defiantly check out the blogs, they helped me so much! I also emailed the authors and they really provided great feedback. Also, when you have an app, ask your family and friends for advice! This blog helped me so much! http://www.droidnova.com/
Try Basic4Android, google it, i do not intend to spam. It will get you started with the OS and if you don't want to stay with basic go to java with knowledge.
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I am interested in starting Mobile application Development.There are many suggestions on internet but,I wanted to have some starting guidelines from professional People out there like how they do it and what they use also
1.I want to develop Android Applications can you suggest me Simulator as well as good Starting Point(like links to tutorials)?
2.I have worked on c/c++/c# so is it going to be hard to learn Android?
I know this is a bit theoretical
question that may invoke long
discussions but i wanted to set
starting point not only for me but for
others who see this thread so that
they do not have to post question,Yet
get answer that how it is
professionally done
You need the android SDK (including emulator)
You should learn "android" as an operating system / middleware, but the applications are written in Java (using android SDK as well). The tutorials and documentation that are in the android developers' site are pretty good and will give you the basics, but you should learn Java in order to create applications on android.
Unlike other "Documentation sites", the android documentation is really really helpful and easy to understand for new-comers.
p.s. I am ignoring native code and C libraries in purpose.
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I apologize in advance for the "newbie" nature of this question.
Here is my predicament: I'm brand new to android and developing in general. I'm using android's SDK with eclipse Galileo. I've followed several tutorials to create different layouts. I've even learned recently how to use radio buttons and verify which ones were selected. Now I need to create a service that downloads and updates an xml file within the application. I've tried to locate a simple tutorial for services on Google's developer site but so far, so bad. If they exist could somebody point me in the right direction?
On the other hand, I've been told Google's tutorials are a little out dated. Is that true? If so, are there any other tutorials that would hand-hold (and possibly over-explain) how to use a service to a true newbie for free (like google)?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
There are several open source projects you can use as an examples
http://code.google.com/p/android-sky/source/browse/#svn/trunk/Sky
http://code.google.com/p/shelves/source/browse
http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/
and book by commonsware and examples to this book :
http://commonsware.com/
http://github.com/commonsguy
Are you looking to upload/download local to the device or over a network connection?
Local File access should be covered by the Data Storage Tutorials
The network connectivity portion of the dev guide is sparse (just lists the 2 main packages for network use), but a quick search on google finds what looks to be a good tutorial with source code:
http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=288
I would use Java's NIO for that.
A very good example (but maybe a bit complicated at first) in this test application.
See these methods: download() and specifically fastChannelCopy().
You can look at a complete DownloadFile class of the very same technique here.
About the Service itself, others have pointed nice howto.