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 is so out of date and is essentially useless.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
