08-23-2011, 11:38 AM
Java wasn't too tough:
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I was already familiar with C# and Java has a lot of the same concepts. The only real problem with learning this stuff is that the Android SDK documentation is lacking. (Like it'll tell you about an API, tell you what a field is called but not give any reference or examples of what's actually supposed to go into that field. Like it'll say the field is "mode" but not tell you what "mode" means. I get a lot of mileage out of <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com">http://stackoverflow.com</a><!-- m --> looking up examples.)
Is Java not a thing that server-side applications could be programmed in? Javascript seems to have little in common with Java, so if it came to that I guess I should ask if I should learn Javascript or PHP?
This is the book I used to get rolling on Android:
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If you want to do graphics, though, you'll need another book. That one purely covers push-button style applications. It does cover services and communications but nothing about 2-D game style graphics.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html">http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html</a><!-- m -->
In particular: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/TOC.html">http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutor ... a/TOC.html</a><!-- m -->
I was already familiar with C# and Java has a lot of the same concepts. The only real problem with learning this stuff is that the Android SDK documentation is lacking. (Like it'll tell you about an API, tell you what a field is called but not give any reference or examples of what's actually supposed to go into that field. Like it'll say the field is "mode" but not tell you what "mode" means. I get a lot of mileage out of <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com">http://stackoverflow.com</a><!-- m --> looking up examples.)
Is Java not a thing that server-side applications could be programmed in? Javascript seems to have little in common with Java, so if it came to that I guess I should ask if I should learn Javascript or PHP?
This is the book I used to get rolling on Android:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118017110">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118017110</a><!-- m -->
If you want to do graphics, though, you'll need another book. That one purely covers push-button style applications. It does cover services and communications but nothing about 2-D game style graphics.