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On 17/08/10 12:17, tom wrote:
On 17/08/10 09:23, Neil Williams wrote:On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:18:01 +0100 tom<tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Just wondering if anyone knows anything about porting/developing for Android...Hope you know how to program in Java...I can downgrade myself to it if required...
There are a few books, but they struggle to keep up with the latest Android release. There's also a reasonable amount of stuff on the web. It appears that the intended development platform is Java using the Eclipse IDE (which couples with the emulator/debugger), though you can use Java outside Eclipse if you wish. You can also use C IIRC, but the support seems to be pretty much non-existent if you go that far and I get the impression that it's largely discouraged. You have to play by their rules in terms of building your application so that it maintains whatever state is required should it be killed unexpectedly to free memory and so that it releases resources quickly when requested, but that's hardly the end of the world. Other than that it looks pretty straightforward. You just have to make sure you handle the fact that Android runs on a range of platforms and therefore performance varies, screen sizes are different and the hardware available isn't always the same. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq