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

I had no concept of java or c++ I was a VB.net guy up until I needed to learn android. I just jumped right into Marks book as noted below and then started messing around with sample apps. If you have any programming background pickup up Java isn’t hard as long as you know how to use google. If you get stuck, like I have in the past many times, ask a well thought out and detailed question to this forum and people WILL help, I have learned a lot from this forum…

 

If you have 0 programming experience you might be in for a rough ride and you will want to make sure any project you come up with is rather basic or you may not have time to finish it…

 

Learning how to design and layout your application is in my opinion the hardest part of android, but once you get it and figure it out it is smooth sailing from there.

 

From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-developers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lew
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 3:37 PM
To: android-developers@googlegroups.com
Subject: 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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