I want to start developing for Android, and would like your advice on that: Where to start.
My background is Linux. I have a lot of programming experience. Mainly C and Perl, followed by C and Python, and for the last five years it's mainly Go. I did some Java programming for a few weeks, decades ago, and I didn't like it. I played around briefly with DroidScript http://droidscript.org/ a while ago, but never used it for anything useful. My first goal is to get to know Android as a developer, learn its concepts, architecture, possibilities. What I am going to do with it is something I don't know yet, but I don't want to limit myself by using the wrong development platform. So, Android Studio would be the obvious choice. But: Java. How about Go Mobile? Is that useful as a starting point, or should I try to get to know the system first using Android Studio? What are the capabilities of Go Mobile? Can it do all the stuff a native app can do, system calls, events, graphics, sound, sensors, communications, all that stuff? Can I use all the Java libraries for Android that I assume must be available out there? Or should I use another platform all together? There seem to be so many. A quick search got me Adobe PhoneGap, Apache Cordova, DroidScript, NativeScript, AppDeck... (If things can run on iPhone too... I don't care.) I would like to hear your advice on what you think is the best platform. But what's important too is: does it have good tutorials, that explain concepts and architecture, as well as how to do practical stuff. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
