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Submitted by lightingitup
over 11 years

Eye on Android App Development

Hello!

I’m new to coding, and I have my eye on android app development. According to this, I should learn Java (a step in the right direction!). With that goal in mind, does anyone have tips for this stage in my coding education? Is there some an area I should focus on more, or some lessons I should research beyond the site early on?

Thanks a bunch for the help!

Answer 5012e9e24472620002006136

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Java is the base of what Android is built upon, so it would be smart to check out that at first, but don’t use too much time getting into the advanced bit. The reason for this is that the Android SDK (Software Development Kit) is abstracting many of the vanilla Java functions to a higher level interface. As long as you have basic understanding of the Java syntax (classes, functions, arithmic operations, condition statements etc.), you would spend much more time in the Android API section than the Java documentation.

If you are familiar with HTML5 / JavaScript you could use frameworks like PhoneGap to convert your app to Android or iOS if you wish. This is a great tool for people with JS knowledge and want to keep a single code base for multiple platforms (Android, iOS, WebOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Bada).

Hope this helps =)

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Submitted by Emil Kjelsrud
over 11 years

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lightingitup over 11 years

Thank you!

brandonromano over 11 years

This is also Javascript… So this isn’t exactly the Java that Android uses. I don’t know if this website has a track for Java. If not just buy a nice Java OOP book with good reviews.

Answer 53c4228f9c4e9d08f9001d50

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Free interactive Java and Android courses & exercises at http://www.programmr.com/practice/

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Submitted by Rajesh Moorjani
over 9 years

Answer 543331ac631fe918f90000bb

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I have used programmr.com and yes the site teaches you how to code but it is a bit more avanced than www.codecademy.com The reason I say this is because I tried first www.programmr.com when I was a total beginner and it was extremely difficult for me so then I decided to go on with www.codecademy.com I found that codecademy is the way to start second because first you must study the syntax and variables and functions and other things necessary to code, then you must write little programs then medium programs then large programs, then after completing codecademy or at least learn the necessary exercises to code then you can go ahead and do the programmr.com site which is more like a training ground to develop lots of things. Awesome sites for both. and awesome places to code. Keep up the motivation to learn or to code. Guys and Gals keep coding and don’t stop.

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over 9 years