An introduction to the Android platform
Here are the slides for my introductory presentation on the Android platform and some useful links to Android related sites.
Books
- I highly recommend a CommonsWare subscription for three books (The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development, The Busy Coder's Guide to Advanced Android Development, and Android Programming Tutorials) from Mark Murphy. It is only $35/year. You can't beat that!
Sample Code & Graphics
- apps-for-android is a set of 10 simple projects from the Android team.
- shelves is a larger application from a Google developer with examples of custom lists and animations.
- astrid is a full-featured todo list application that has been published to the Android market.
- Android GUI PSD is a Photoshop file for mocking up Android GUIs.
- Android Snippets - code snippets for common actions
- Web view of Android framework source
Tutorials
- These are all from Google I/O 2009 conference:
- A General-purpose Caching Architecture for Offline-capable Web Applications with HTML 5 Databases or Gears
- Android Lightning Talks
- Coding for Life -- Battery Life, That Is
- Debugging Arts of the Ninja Masters
- How Do I Code Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
- Looking Beyond the Screen: Text-To-Speech and Eyes-Free Interaction on Android
- Mastering the Android Media Framework
- Pixel Perfect Code: How to Marry Interaction and Visual Design the Android Way
- Supporting Multiple Devices with One Binary
- Turbo-charge your UI: How to Make your Android UI Fast and Efficient
- Writing Real-Time Games for Android
- Article about browsing Android source in Eclipse
