Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Re: [android-developers] School project help needed.

Kristopher Micinski wrote: 
I don't think that Android is a significantly new API or programming

Compared to what?
 
environment, and if you know Java (and even if you don't, but know C++
or something similar-ish well enough) will be very easy to pick up..

You elide over the difficulties. Java is more than a language, it's an 
environment, and that environment is quite different between Android and 
other platforms.

For example, you could go through years of standard or enterprise Java 
programming without every defining a UI in XML. If this is new to you, it 
takes some getting used to, and no amount of Java or C++ knowledge is 
directly applicable.
 
If you have a year of time to do so, I'd start by doing the following:

- reading the developer guide
- playing with a bunch of the sample apps
- perhaps buying a copy of Mark Murphy's android book (the commonsware
guide) if you find yourself needing more explained examples of the
API, etc... 

You consider a year "easy to pick up"?

I consider three days "easy to pick up". A year seems on the long end of 
what it should take to be competent at Android programming.

-- 
Lew
 

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