Android : What we need?

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

For Android development, what we need to study?

[Ankit Garg]

Do you need suggestions on books or what??

[Pramod P Deore]

You know What is Activity,Activities life cycle,about Service to run application in background, Intents, Broadcast Receivers, Data storage using files, sharedPreferences, databases, Maps......

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

Ankit Garg wrote:Do you need suggestions on books or what??

Yea, and also, from where to start? Thanks a lot Ankit.

[Ankit Garg]

There are a number of books available like Pro Android 2 (Apress), Beginning Android 2 (Apress), Professional Android 2 Application Programming (Wrox). You can start with any of these books...

[Lester Burnham]

The AndroidFaq should make for useful reading.

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

Thanks a lot......

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Professional Android 2 Application Programming (Wrox) is really good and it is written by Google engineer.
You need also Eclipse.

[Lester Burnham]

You need also Eclipse.

Not necessarily - Ant works fine.

[Hussein Baghdadi]

I'm talking about Eclipse Android plugin that is created by Google.

[Lester Burnham]

Well, if you want to run Eclipse plugins, then you'll obviously need Eclipse. But for Android development in general (which is what is discussed here), Eclipse is not needed.

[Christophe Verré]

This blog shows you how to install the necessary software to start developing Android applications with Eclipse.

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

Thanks guys!

[Tamas Jano]

If you want to develop games this link could be useful too: http://obviam.net.

[Abimaran Kugathasan]

Tamas Jano wrote:If you want to develop games this link could be useful too: http://obviam.net.

Thanks Tamas Jano!