[android-beginners] Re: With no previous programming knowledge / experience, how do I get started creating an app?

[Falko Richter]

Programming good Java is not something you learn on a weekend. Java is a
serious Object Oriented Language. Any experience with OO-languages help
alot. Javascript in fact is not really OO. With various libraries you can
give it an OO touch but it´s still only a  scripting language.

I recommend any good Javabooks, unfortunately I German and I used
http://www.galileocomputing.de/openbook/javainsel6 but that is of course in
German.
O´reilly has a java book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/javawt/book/index.html
http://www.techbooksforfree.com/java.shtml has some more books... So in
general search for Object Orientation as it is the principle of modern java
programming and Java as the programming language.

cheers

falko

2008/9/29 Morisato13 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 Oh, I noticed that Android runs on Java. I should note that I can
 understand JAVASCRIPT. I know they are not the same but similar. I
 used to make web pages when I was young and I would copy/paste
 javascript from those free javascript websites and alter them to my
 liking. Because of this, I can understand javascript, but I can't
 quite write it because I never memorized commands and such structure,
 only how to analyze it and figure out what part does what.

 On Sep 28, 11:21 pm, Morisato13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hello, I'm a COMPLETE NOOB when it comes to programming. When I was
  younger I was interested in programming and read a few Visual Basic
  books, but my knowledge is very very limited... VERY. I have some
  interesting/innovative ideas (that could possible make money...
  wishful thinking I guess) but I have no idea where to start. I
  definitely fall into the ideas man category of people which I have
  plenty of, but without knowing  where to start, I'm stuck. Does anyone
  have any recommendations of things I should look into? Some sort of
  step by step learning syllabus to get to where I need to be to start
  programming for Android. I'm already expecting the learning process to
  take a very long time, but how long do you think each learning step
  should take? Any websites or book recommendations? I'm not a child,
  but I would like the reading to be as easy as possible because some of
  the technical things just go over my head, but don't get me wrong, I'm
  not technologically illiterate. Any help would be great, thanks. :)
 
  -Morisato
 


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[android-beginners] Simple Map Problem

[Falko Richter]

Hello everyone,

After a wonderful GoogleDeveloperDay yesterday I started a simple Maps 
Project today. The idea is to put maps.fon.com in your android phone. I 
will start simple and then extend the features...

the source is to be found at http://code.google.com/p/fonmaps/

the problem is that i cannot start the simplest application. i studied 
the samples and have some code examples from the gdd. If someone could 
give me a hand and show me how I can fix the problem, i would be very 
thankful.

Basically I only do this:

public class HelloActivity extends MapActivity {
private MapView mMapView;
   
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  
mMapView = new MapView(this, MapViewCompassDemo_DummyAPIKey);
   
mMapView.getController().setZoom(18);
mMapView.setClickable(true);
mMapView.setEnabled(true);
   
setContentView(mMapView);
}
@Override
protected boolean isRouteDisplayed() { return false; }
}

I tried all kinds of combinations with different views but cannot get 
anythng working...

thx for your help

Falko



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