Tutorial: Android Application Development - A 9,000 foot overview
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when pointing Android beginners to a free video series for getting started and learning basic app design.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2011 to 2013.
What it is
A 70-minute recorded class from Marakana's Android Bootcamp, presented by Marko Gargenta and published by InfoQ. It gives an overview of the Android software stack and the Dalvik VM, and walks through setting up the Android SDK with Eclipse.
What people said
Strong rec S9Designs · 2011-09 · Stack Overflow · on “android startup kit”
I started out with some ideas that I wanted to build and by watching this series: [this video] It's a great series that covers some basics as well as some mid-level topics. From there I would recommend building your first application and when you run into an issue you can't figure out, Google it or search on SO. As for testing on your own phone - It will be difficult to mess up your phone unless you do something completely out there. It's best to use your own phone along with emulators setup with different settings such as resolutions etc. If you're using Eclipse to develop, you can run the app's directly from the IDE and they will be installed on your phone. Also, you can use adb.exe that comes
Recommends Aashish Bhatnagar · 2013-05 · Stack Overflow · on “create one button and method”
I suggest you should watch this channel it will help you understand the android and you will be able to start within 1-2 hour [this video]
Recommends Peter Birdsall · 2013-07 · Stack Overflow · on “What is the right way to populate a ListView with data fetched from the internet on Android?”
There are 2 things that should be Async type tasks, a good design that similar to what you are trying to accomplish at Marakana Yamba Project [this video] . The videos have a lot of dead space, so I would look for the ones that talk about the design, it will give you the correct design method. The points that will be brought out there are, the async DownloadData task that you already have and then you should look for the one on the Content Provider. Your DownloadData will handle efficient downloads from the Internet, as the radio loves your battery. The Content Provider will work kinda the same way, but in feeding data to the UI activity of your app. The basic recommended type of design. Hope thi