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| From | Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? |
| Date | 2015-05-25 20:40 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mk0ps1$6uq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <mjj121$u5s$1@dont-email.me> <Android-20150522015201@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <54d7e90b-302b-45ef-8f55-22eb38e8c60d@googlegroups.com> |
On 5/22/2015 08:16, e.d.programmer@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 8:00:08 PM UTC-4, Stefan Ram wrote: >> Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> writes: >>> Anybody got a recommendation for a good Android programming book based >>> on the current Android Studio? >> >> Most Android books are alike, as if one author had copied the >> structure from another author. For example, near the begining >> you will learn that there are four types of components (activities, >> broadcast receivers, and two others I now have forgotten) and >> about the lifecycle of an activity (onCreate, onResume, onPause, ...). >> You will learn about the structure of a file called IIRC >> »AndroidManifest.XML«. There is not (yet) an outstanding work >> that can be highly recommended (such as »Effective Java« by >> Joshua Bloch or »Exceptional C++« by Herb Sutter). >> >> Newer books will also teach new APIs, like fragments. But to >> learn the fundamentals, this is not required. >> >> Another type of Android programming book is the »Android >> programming cookbook« kind of book, there you will find >> »recipes«, for example, how to take a picture using the cam. >> These books might assume that the fundamentals are already know. >> If you happen to need a certain »recipe« and you find this >> in a certain cookbook, then this book is good for you, >> even if you do not need the other recipes right now. >> >> I checked out Android Studio. If you have no problems with software >> that will connect to the internet and does stuff there that you >> don't know about, it might be ok for you! >> >> The build system of Android Studio is Gradle. I checked out Gradle. >> In 2013 or 2014, I found that the Gradle DSL does not seem to >> be well documented. See the repost below. >> >> I wasted some time trying to understand and use Gradle. >> And what works best for me now, is to just call the SDK myself! >> No Ant, no gradle, no Eclipse, no AndroidStudio. >> I just call javac, dex, aapt and jarsigner from a batch script. >> I know what is going on, it's fast, and I can even do this >> natively on an Android device using Terminal IDE (which, >> however, does not work on Android 5 yet). >> > > Why not just use Eclipse with the Android plugin? > Since I don't know Eclipse any better than I know IntelliJ I don't think that would help. I periodically download the latest Java and NetBeans but I give up pretty quick and go back to Vim and a batch file. Dinosaur I guess :-). Thanks, -- Knute Johnson
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Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-05-20 15:16 -0700
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-05-21 20:30 -0400
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-05-22 08:16 -0700
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-05-25 20:40 -0700
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-05-26 10:15 +0000
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2015-05-26 13:27 +0200
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-05-26 07:33 -0700
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-05-26 19:52 +0000
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-05-26 17:21 -0400
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-05-26 22:36 +0000
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Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-06-05 05:50 -0700
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Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-06 23:50 -0400
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-06-08 07:39 -0700
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-28 21:42 -0400
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-29 08:20 +0000
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Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 07:35 -0400
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Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 14:18 -0400
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-29 21:00 +0000
Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-07-27 22:22 -0400
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