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Programming in Android?

yeah, install eclipse and the android SDK, do the hello world example and try to understand what is going on with activities and such, next, start screwing around with different layouts and buttons and such to make a simple app
 
Yeah start with setting up your development environment. I just got my environment set up earlier this week. I havent' use Java in a long (years) but should be too bad to delve back in.
 
Does the SDK only supports Java? Does it compile to native code?
I'm also interested on getting into Android programming.
 
Thanks for the responses. I was just looking for the main topics/differences from Java that I'd need to look in. Actually, what I'm looking to do is just take a JApplet I already have made and turn it into an Android app.
 
I am assuming you have eclipse and the adt plugin installed. They have tutorials online, they have a basic hello world tutorial, and then more helpful tutorials like web view and list view. Just follow them and then read up on what is actually going on -- there is a ton of documentation online.
 
The android sdk has so much abstraction and so many new built in functions thats its almost like learning a new language. I found that my java experience was only marginally helpful. I picked up a book called Hello Android and found it to be very helpful for starting android development!
 
I had pretty good luck with Google's tutorials. If you haven't set up the environment yet, I recommend following Google's directions very closely. I got this book and had pretty good luck with it.

One nice thing is that Android development is pretty active right now, so there is a lot of info online.

There are a lot of things that are tricky/weird about android, but the biggest thing to understand near the beginning is definitely the XML layout definition system and how the XML relates to the Java code you write to interact with the UI. (you can do layouts in code but you definitely don't want to if they are nontrivial in complexity)
 
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