Android Development with Hello, Android 3rd Edition

In a previous post I talked about my experience with the Android 2 phone and my desire to look into it from a development perspective.  To that end, I purchased Ed Burnette's book Hello, Android 3rd Edition.  What a great book on getting started with developing for the Android.

Basic Concepts to the Complex

Hello, Android takes you from the very basic steps of getting the Eclipse IDE set up for development to the more complex topics of data persistence (local storage and SQLite), graphics, and publishing to the Android market.  Ed does this by taking an example; a Sudoku application and demonstrates the topics while building an application.   I find this method of teaching technical material very effective and it worked extraordinarily well for me.

I especially liked the getting started chapters -- laying down a good foundation and I enjoyed learning about SQLLite a very nice little dB engine in a 150KB package.

One area I wish was covered in more detail is security in the Droid 2 development process.  This is an area I plan on exploring in the future.

Overall, a great book to get you started in Android 2 development and highly recommended.

-npv