My first Android apps

Last Friday, I started reading Hello, Android - Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform, 2nd Edition by Ed Burnette, which I wholeheartedly recommend as an introduction to Android. In the first few chapters, you’ll learn the basics of any Android application: user interface, menus, settings, dialog boxes, (2D) graphics, sound, persistency, debugging, … while building a fully functional Sudoku application.

Later in the book a lot of the core aspects of android are introduced, all in easy to follow examples: video, the SQLite-database, Internet connectvity, Widgets  and a lot more. The book also features a chapter about OpenGL, but I have to say I skipped that. Chances are slim I will ever need that …

Personally I would have liked to read more on using the different Layouts for designing (more complex) user interfaces. Maybe that’s something for an “advanced” book or for a next version of this one.

If you’re eager to start with Android, get this book, I finished it in less then 2 evenings …