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I’ve started porting my iPhone app to Android/G1 in anticipation of Google’s market for paid apps launching later this quarter (I want to be in on the ground floor!) Java is very C# (actually, that’s incorrect, since most of the awesome stuff in C# was blatantly ripped off from Java, which had it years if not decades before but ANYWAY) – Here’s how I’ve started on Android and how others might want to start:

1. go to code.google.com/android and go through all 4 steps of the getting started. Pay your $25 and if you can stomach it, plop down another $400 for the Android Dev Phone, which is an unlocked G1 with a cool skin.
2. Download and integrate into Eclipse a package called CDT – C++ Development Tools. It comes with a DevStudio keyboard configuration that’ll save you some sanity; Eclipse is huge, and the keyboard shortcuts aren’t intuitive. For example, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab don’t cycle between windows (which is what finally led me to find out about CDT).
3. download DroidDraw, which is the best GUI drawing tool (like Interface Builder or the Design View of C#) that I’ve found. That isn’t saying a lot though, this tool is still young and cantankerous, but at least it gives you a graphical view of the XML files that Android uses for UIs.
4. This site (www.androidph.com) has lots of code snippets to look at. Also check out AndDev, which has some cool tutorials and a good community going.
5. Tell me about other things you find! :)

Posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 7:38 pm in android | rss feed for comments| Both comments and pings are currently closed.