Android Apprenticeship

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Post by endlessvoid94 » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 7:19 PM UTC

Android Apprenticeship
blog.bloc.io

Re: Android Apprenticeship

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Post by mrdougwright » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:04 PM UTC

Android before iOS...interesting.

Re: Android Apprenticeship

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Post by cliveowen » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:23 PM UTC

The biggest hurdle in learning Android programming isn't the platform or the Java language, is that stupid, stupid Eclipse.

Re: Android Apprenticeship

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Post by hayksaakian » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:25 PM UTC

cliveowen wrote: post #3

The biggest hurdle in learning Android programming isn't the platform or the Java language, is that stupid, stupid Eclipse.

have you tried Android Studio?

Re: Android Apprenticeship

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Post by sisedi » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:29 PM UTC

cliveowen wrote: post #3

The biggest hurdle in learning Android programming isn't the platform or the Java language, is that stupid, stupid Eclipse.

Bloc's apprenticeship teaches Android Studio :)

Re: Android Apprenticeship

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Post by simoncarter » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:30 PM UTC

FYI, Coursera is offering a free alternative. No one-on-one, but an active student community on the course. https://class.coursera.org/android-001

Re: Android Apprenticeship

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Post by Ologn » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:44 PM UTC

cliveowen wrote: post #3

The biggest hurdle in learning Android programming isn't the platform or the Java language, is that stupid, stupid Eclipse.

I'm using neither Eclipse, nor Studio for Android programming, but Emacs, believe it or not.

With Java Development Environment for Emacs, I even have that Eclipse-like (semi-)automatic import of Android packages, like TextView.

I wish I had the time to improve things like JDE's auto-import even more, but I've been too busy. Various people have blogged about their experiences developing Android in Emacs, they have some useful hints. I like it better than Studio and Eclipse myself, but people have different tastes.

Re: Android Apprenticeship

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Post by philbarr » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:52 PM UTC

cliveowen wrote: post #3

The biggest hurdle in learning Android programming isn't the platform or the Java language, is that stupid, stupid Eclipse.

Are there any IDEs out there that aren't hated? I find Eclipse to be fine but I've been using it for years now (since it's early days). On the other hand, I've been using VS for a couple of years and think it stinks.

Re: Android Apprenticeship

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Post by pacofvf » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:53 PM UTC

Seriously, creating an "Instragram" or a "Twitter" following this tutorial http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.... is very easy if you know how to code, I wouldn't spend $5,000 on that, but if you don't know how to code the I would spend those $5k in learning how to code in a different platform since beginning with mobile apps it's no easy stuff.

Re: Android Apprenticeship

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 8:55 PM UTC

cliveowen wrote: post #3

The biggest hurdle in learning Android programming isn't the platform or the Java language, is that stupid, stupid Eclipse.

I feel the same way, but today after playing a bit with Android Studio, I ended up back on Eclipse.

Somehow the fonts don't look right on Windows, even after some customization and I was getting some eye strain, just after a while of playing with it.

This isn't Swing vs SWT, because I also have Netbeans and it renders quite well.