I can definitely say that Mark's book 'Busy Programmer's Guide...' is superb. I have subscribed to his site and have the latest version 1.4. Its really good because it explains concepts by giving parallels to other GUI systems like Flash or Swing. If you know other platforms then having a parallel example makes it very easy to understand.
For example, the ACTIVITY concept in Android is like the Microsoft MFC Document View model (where the M and C are combined as a Document in the Document View model) What I look forward from books is whether the author has had any experience with other popular platforms and if he can corelate some similarities to make it easier for readers to understand. I found it very useful and look forward to a print edition. - Sunit Katkar http://sunitkatkar.blogspot.com/ - Android OS Tutorials On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:06 PM, hmmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree that Jerome DiMarzio book is not particulary outstanding. He seems > to explain evident things one can figure out herself and he is missing real > necessary things at the same time things one can not really figure out in a > reasonable time.. > > I have learned much from 'Android Essentials' by Chris Haseman. It is for > older SDK (0.9 I believe) yet it explains things very very well and with > little effort one can apply the knowledge to the current SDK. > > I don't think Notepad tutorial is a very good tutorial. I guess Google > didn't aim at putting out a real 'tutorial'. > > After playing with Android for a month or so I surprisingly to myuself came > to conclusion that it's much easier than several other platforms I ever > worked with. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "loty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Android Developers" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:48 PM > Subject: [android-developers] Re: Android, A Programmer's Guide by Jerome > (J.F.) DiMarzio > > > > Yes I was very disappointed with this book as well - total waste of > time and money. I felt constantly that this Jerome dude took all those > screen shots and code pictures just to pad his 15 pages worth of > material (mostly copied from Google pages) to 300 page book. I'm > impressed that you went all the way to chapter 8 of that miserable > dribble. > > For beginner's tutorial there is nothing better than Notes tutorial > that comes with the API. Follow it understand it expand on it and > you'll cover about 80% of Android. > > On Nov 24, 12:13 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I bought this book in hopes of learning how to code in Android. It > > was very good up to the eigth chapter when everything seemed to go > > haywire. None of the intents or actions seem to be available. This > > actually started a few chapters earlier and I was able to find the > > current equivalents. > > > > But now, by chapter 8, it has become unbearable. Basically, the book > > is so out of date and is essentially useless. > > > > Does anyone know of a website where I can get a beginner's tutorial on > > developing Android apps? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thank you. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
