I’ve had an android model phone (Motorola Droid) for about a year, and I have wanted to learn how to make applications for it for a while. I’ve recently come up with a couple of actual ideas that I want to start working towards. For obvious reasons I won’t be mentioning them here, but I’ve begun to start the basic groundwork to making android apps

After a lengthy process of installed the Eclipse IDE, Android Plugin, Android SDK download, JDK download, and AVD (android virtual device) I was able to make my hello world app this weekend. I’m working now on some basic menu and button interactions.

One thing that’s been kind of bothersome has been the speed of the AVD. If I make one small change, it will take a few minutes for me to boot into the AVD. I’m not sure if you have to fully “reboot” the AVD every time you make a change or not. Regardless, it’s been a pretty slow learning processes when I want to see what simple changes can be completed. I’ve started working with the Wrox Android development book as my guide through out my learning process.

The way I learn best is either by being showed how I’m suppose to do something visually, or by plopping down with a book, and working through the examples. Since I don’t know any developers out there personally that can show me the ropes of android development, or take an android development class, I’ll resort to reading a book.

Hopefully, I can stick with it in my little free time that I have, and we’ll see what I can accomplish. I still need to sit down with and design and write up my business plans for the applications that I want to write, so  needless to say, I’m a chunk of time away from being able to have something to show for it, but with some luck, this could end up being a productive endeavor.