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Re: [LUG] Android

 

On 17/08/10 12:39, James Fidell wrote:
On 17/08/10 12:17, tom wrote:
On 17/08/10 09:23, Neil Williams wrote:
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:18:01 +0100
tom<tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just wondering if anyone knows anything about porting/developing for
Android...
Hope you know how to program in Java...

I can downgrade myself to it if required...

There are a few books, but they struggle to keep up with the latest
Android release.  There's also a reasonable amount of stuff on the
web.

It appears that the intended development platform is Java using the
Eclipse IDE (which couples with the emulator/debugger), though you
can use Java outside Eclipse if you wish.  You can also use C IIRC,
but the support seems to be pretty much non-existent if you go that
far and I get the impression that it's largely discouraged.

You have to play by their rules in terms of building your application
so that it maintains whatever state is required should it be killed
unexpectedly to free memory and so that it releases resources quickly
when requested, but that's hardly the end of the world.

Other than that it looks pretty straightforward.  You just have to
make sure you handle the fact that Android runs on a range of platforms
and therefore performance varies, screen sizes are different and the
hardware available isn't always the same.

James

Cheers - I was asking as I'd downloaded the SDK and installed the Eclipse extension, gone to the "Hello World" tutorial and fell at step one! Now digging in I'm getting some where but everything is soooooooooooooo out of sync doc wise!
Tom te tom te tom

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