Tony Hillerson got it right
I’ve got to say that, much like when I tried to dive into Java back in the nineties, Android currently doesn’t have great books out yet. No surprise there. Not that the books I’ve been looking over are bad, I just don’t think anyone has figured out a good organization for really understanding the environment… not in book form.
Fortunately, I discovered the video tutorials on Safari Books Online. The creator, Tony Hillerson, walks through the development of a task tracking application. The simple little application allows Hillerson to move you into all of the Android specific architectures need to knows. I didn’t add it up but it looks to be about six or seven hours worth of programming that covers everything from transitioning through Activities to customizing the “Application” class that runs your program. The section on SQLite persistence was by far the clearest, simplest solution that I have found to date.
It looks like there are postings of these videos on YouTube. Other websites also claim to offer access to the videos with a “free account”. I definitely think the video is worth taking a look at.
Comment from Randall Mitchell
Time March 7, 2011 at 2:13 pm
There is a single hour and a half video on youtube now with Hillerson’s name on it. I haven’t viewed that particular video other than to see that it is pretty lo-res and has poor audio. The videos I referenced here originally are broken down into several part under “Developing Android Applications with Java”. Cheers.