Android Programming

Useful Resources for Learning Android Development

• Books on Android

Java

• Sun/Oracle Javese Tutorial This explains the object oriented ideas of Java well.
• Learn Java for Android Development, by Jeff Friesen

Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Eclipse is an open source IDE that can be used with a variety of languages. It is written in Java, and so is very cross platform. It is especially good for Java and Android development.

• Video tutorials for Java programming in Eclipse This is a great set of video tutorials for absolute beginners, by Mark Dexter. It is an easy way to learn bothe Java and Eclipse. I found these very helpful to get up and going with Java.
• Android Development with Eclipse, by Onur Cinar This book assumes a little more experience than the above set of tutorials, but is specicically for Android, and shows how to use Eclipse nicely with the Android Development Tools.

Videos

• This is a very basic set of 25 tutorials by Level Up Tuts.
• These tutorials by Derek Banas were very helpful to me.
• The New Boston Tutorials There are 200 five to ten minute tutorials. These helped me quite a bit. I wish they had the source code to look at. I found that looking at source code in eclipse is much easier to understand what is going on, because you can hover over methods and read the documentation on them.
• Google's Videos These are from developer conferences, and are generally for more advanced users.
• Android Bootcamp 2012 Tutorial This series of 29 approximately 30 minute tutorials came from the Android Bootcamp.
• Jonathan Engelsma has a nice little set of Android tutorials here. These tutorials are a good way to get the basics of android programming in a quick way. They assume some Java experience, but they highlight features of the android platform well. I found them very useful.

Specialized topics for Android Apps

• AsyncTask
• Sockets
  • Southern Polytechnic University Tutorial
  • This bi-directional socket using AsyncTask example was helpful to me.
• Settings
  • Java Code Geeks Tutorial
  • iRomin Preferences Tutorial

DCC 2013 Specific Notes

Great Circle Centered on KL7NA You can make your own using python and matplotlib.

MOOCs

• Massive Online Open Course from Future Learn