Week of Android Wrap up
Over the past seven days I have taken time away from work and family to learn how to develop an application for the Android platform. I bought my first android phone last fall and have become excited with the platform. I picked up a book, setup an IDE and started building a couple applications.
I feel like there are a lot of possibilities available developing for the Android platform. I've got a couple ideas about building apps that I think would do well to fit a nitche not found in the android marketplace. I'm hoping to spend about five hours a week finishing the book I'm reading and then building a new application. I'd like to have an app on the marketplace by the end of the year. Hopefully this decision will open up some new opportunities for me.
I would have liked to have gotten through more of my book but I only got though seven chapters of the book. I was able to build a handful of application ranging from a To Do List application to a Earthquake monitoring application. It's been interesting to see how to create UIs, capture data, load data from an online xml feed and persist the data to a local database.
I feel like there are a lot of possibilities available developing for the Android platform. I've got a couple ideas about building apps that I think would do well to fit a nitche not found in the android marketplace. I'm hoping to spend about five hours a week finishing the book I'm reading and then building a new application. I'd like to have an app on the marketplace by the end of the year. Hopefully this decision will open up some new opportunities for me.
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