Direct me to the best resources on programming for Android

[MikeMike]

I haven't done any sort of programming in around 3-4 years other than CSS and HTML... i know Droid is Java, and have downloaded eclipse and ADT... (still working on getting them up and running)

My goal is basically to create a small little practice application and use it as a proof of concept... main point will be the GUI and the database integration that I am wanting to create...

anyways... I know about the developer.android.com and have been reading over it, but any other beginners guide, followed by intermediate, etc...

 

[Socratesx]

Yuo can start by readoing an introductory book to android like this http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Android-...2847719&sr=1-2

So to cover everything you will need for developing apps.

 

[Cogman]

After doing some basic java tutorials (Those are everywhere) I would suggest going straight to the horses mouth.

http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html

 

[tatteredpotato]

If one of the big things you're doing is the GUI you're going to want to read up on how Android does it's layouts. You can do layouts in Java code, however it's strongly discouraged in favor of an XML layout file. Figuring out the layouts was one of the trickier things to figure out IMO.