A start
If there isn’t already, there ought to be a saying: any great program starts with its first steps. Or keystrokes. Or bytes.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I am attempting to teach myself to develop for Android. Today I endeavoured on this journey, first stop: http://developer.android.com/
This is the official Google website for everything related to developing your Android applications. They have an installation guide, a development guide, tutorials, etc. If you ever wish to start developing, I suggest you first follow the installation guide and after that, simply read the entire development guide. In my opinion, if you’re an experienced Android user and programmer, you should have no problem reading it from A to Z, without interruption.
So, to summarize;
- installed Eclipse
- installed the Java SDK
- installed the Android SDK
- installed the Android plugin for Eclipse
- started reading the guides
- installed blogging software on website to keep track of developments
I have only fired up Eclipse and the SDK to check if no errors are produced, but a bit later I’ll try the samples to broaden my understanding. For now I’ll simply continue reading the guides.
PS: And yeah, I already have an idea for an application I want to develop. It would be a bad idea to simply start this project while not knowing what the goal would be.