anyone played with Android SDK?

[rudeguy]

I want to mess with this but have no idea what I'm doing.

Anyone play with this?

 

[Deeko]

Yes, I'm working on an app as we speak. I'm by no means an expert though, still learning it myself.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Yea I've downloaded and played around with it... I'm waiting till the summer to put some more time into learning the framework.

Download the manuals and just go over views and activities first... Get a feel for how you can construct them from the XML files and interact with them via the R class.

 

[Platypus]

Learning it myself right now too.

 

[vshah]

working on a couple apps at the moment still very much learning as I go though. lots of tutorials on the net...its pretty simple to get started.

 

[Platypus]

Not to hijack this thread but hopefully someone reads this. I'm a UNIX guy and I want to get more involved in the actual OS side, not the app side of things. There doesn't seem to be a lot of info out there except some random 'ROM cooking' type things where you basically take someone else's work and modify it to make a custom ROM. That is interesting to me but I want to take it further and get into the OS itself. Short of flying to california for the classes they offer, is there anything I can do on the web?

 

[Deeko]

Not to hijack this thread but hopefully someone reads this. I'm a UNIX guy and I want to get more involved in the actual OS side, not the app side of things. There doesn't seem to be a lot of info out there except some random 'ROM cooking' type things where you basically take someone else's work and modify it to make a custom ROM. That is interesting to me but I want to take it further and get into the OS itself. Short of flying to california for the classes they offer, is there anything I can do on the web?

http://source.android.com/download

?

 

[Platypus]

http://source.android.com/download

?

Yeah I've got that, but I guess I meant I was looking more into how they've changed Linux to work on a mobile device. I've been looking through the code but it's a lot tougher to plow through endless source code to try and understand the differences. Specifically with memory management and scheduling, how certain things are always running waiting for input, etc. The core of it is Linux but it's applied in a very different way from what I've seen thus far.

 

[vshah]

Yeah I've got that, but I guess I meant I was looking more into how they've changed Linux to work on a mobile device. I've been looking through the code but it's a lot tougher to plow through endless source code to try and understand the differences. Specifically with memory management and scheduling, how certain things are always running waiting for input, etc. The core of it is Linux but it's applied in a very different way from what I've seen thus far.

you can find some interesting android related google i/o presentations here:
http://sites.google.com/site/io/

 

[Platypus]

you can find some interesting android related google i/o presentations here:
http://sites.google.com/site/io/

This is great, thank you very much.