Android app development?

[ankush28]

I dont think any android app developed with other languages will be as powerfull as by Java.

 

[krishnandu.sarkar]

How come you hate Java. Its a wonderful thing. Its true it has its disadvantages, but its really awesome as well.
BTW how is xamarin? Microsoft trying to promote it a lot, created a bit of buzz in my company.

Well, it's personal. One needs to write too much code for even a simple "Hello World!" and that's what I hate. Also non-existence of a good IDE with code completion, code hinting etc. is also a main reason. If one would have been there, I wouldn't mind developing with Java. Yeah I know very much about Eclipse, Net Beans etc. but it doesn't even come any closer to VS and it's features.

You see, a C# code and a Java code for 'Hello World" is almost same, and almost same number of lines of codes. But C# developers never realizes it, because of the automatic namespace import statement, namespace declaration statement, class declaration, main declaration statement. Only he needs to write is Console.WriteLine("Hello World!"); but in java only writing System.Out.Println("Hello World!"); won't work.

And as I said, other things like code completion, code hinting etc. all those VS features matters me a lot. And VS looks much cool to me

But max of the time C# and .NET is never considered for Open Source development. So I try my ways out to be involved into Open Source.

NOTE : Java developers don't take this thing as harsh, as I said in the very beginning, it's personal.

I dont think any android app developed with other languages will be as powerfull as by Java.

That I don't know, and don't intend to be a Android Developer only because of this Java.

 

[Mr.Kickass]

And besides, keep visiting XDA. They always have some news

[Random] Beginner’s Guide to the Android Debug Bridge

Another great resource for newcomers is this guy called TheNewBoston, you can go through the entire playlist

This is the first lesson
[YOUTUBE]SUOWNXGRc6g[/YOUTUBE]

And oh, btw he also has a Java Tutorial lined up for you

 

[abhidev]

I have just started learning Android app development...and the xml based UI development of android can be sometimes a pain in the neck but the concept is kind of similar to css.

If you have app that has heavy animations and data layers then going the native way is a good idea else you have many 3rd party frameworks that are good enough but cannot go head on with native app in performance.

Moreover you can go with a hybrid app approach...where you'll have some parts of the app web based and some native based on the requirements.

 

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Right for heave applications Phonegap type thing is not at all recommended. Native is the way to go.

Also Android's XML based design is similar to Silverlight / WPF's XAML approach. I didn't find any problems with it.

 

[abhidev]

Right for heave applications Phonegap type thing is not at all recommended. Native is the way to go.

Also Android's XML based design is similar to Silverlight / WPF's XAML approach. I didn't find any problems with it.

yes its easy to understand but sometimes it doesn't behave the way it is supposed to be...

Like now I have a textview where i need to have rounded corners on both sides. For this I have used a linear layout and everything is working fine except the left rounded corner is not taking up the intended full asset width.

 

[krishnandu.sarkar]

^^ C# - via Xamarin. Though read the comments about Xamarin above. It's still can't be considered for mainstream development.

 

[amit_dhamankar]

I am really impressed by your answer

 

[kaz]

I started learning when I was in B.Tech 2year with video tuts provided on Digit's DVD....Learned some basics and made a calculator with a splash screen and musics And it ended there....
Have heard about appcelerator which uses javascripts, but cross platform development tools are not that effective plus support is also poor....

 

[tekiagadi]

According to my Knowledge, Java is the programming language used for the Android Application Development.

 

[aditiaggarwal]

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