When I first jumped into Android development, I went in with a mindset for developing desktop applications. That was a mistake. I think I would have been able to wrap my head around it quicker if I’d thought of it more like web application development. In particular, Activities have to account for a certain amount [...]

I’m excited to be programming in Java again. I bought one of those fancy touch screen Android phones in October because I wanted to start writing applications for mobile phones (OK… I wanted a new toy). I skimmed the Android framework documentation and did the Hello World tutorial back in December. But late last week [...]