Hi everybody,
I am a young physician, very found of my android phone. I am very impressed by the lack of specific medical application for Android. From this point of view iOS stays so much better.
I am looking for a partner who is interested in developing medical applications. I would provide the ideas for applications (based on the current needs of practicing medical doctors) and the expertize (the medical text, knowledge..etc).
I am interested in creating educational materials, such as atlases or quizzes. This would be very simple to create: I would provide the text and the pictures, you would have to put them in a program.
Let me know if you are interested.
Edelkeit at live dot ca
Thank you.
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Hi all,
I work in IT but have never done any programming at all before. I would like to get started in developing apps for Android. Does anyone have any pointers tips on doing this. Is Android the wrong place to start with programming or should I be ok? Does anyone know of any good resources which should get me started, either online or in book form?
Any advice appreciated,
Michael
Manning has a Developing for Android book. http://www.manning.com/ableson/ You'll need to learn Java so start there too. Or look into Titanium http://www.appcelerator.com/
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I don't necessarily want to discourage you, but doing proper software development isn't the easiest thing to learn. There's a pretty steep learning curve surrounding object-oriented development, and the alternative is something you'll either hate or misuse.
Most people starting to program first learn how to make things happen in code procedurally: do A, then when that's done do B, then when that's done do C. Trying to program user interfaces this way is awful because the user workflow does not necessarily follow each little action in a specific order (and the interface has to continue to be responsive while your program is working). Your code will almost certainly suck and you'll spend most of your time testing, fixing bugs, and rejecting feature requests because they are "impossible" until you learn the better way: break down the problem into discrete blocks of related data and resources (the objects), define all the ways each block can be manipulated (the methods on those objects), define the conditions under which different actions must take place (thread messaging, event handlers), and tie all of that together into an application.
If this sort of thing interests you, great! I myself used to work in IT and found software development to be a much more interesting, open, and creative field. Mobile development is an especially fun field because you can deal with smaller projects and your customers are normal people, not businesses. I caution you not to jump right into the deep end, though; read several books on java and OOP, start with a smaller project and redesign/rewrite it several times until it's perfect, then you'll be ready to take what you've learned and apply it to something incrementally bigger.
I have barely developed anything since the BASIC days on the C64 and Amiga, and now feel inspired to create some financial applications for the Australian market - such as superannuation projections.
How hard is it to develop? A few standard calculations like you would see on a spreadsheet would work, with some graphing.
Most financial applications I have found are pretty basic and don't account for inflation in rising wages and fees, etc.
I believe I could attract at least a dollar for a well developed application for superannuation alone.
I have installed the Android 2.2 SDK and have no idea where to start. I presume this is some sort of emulated Android device I can test my applications on.
Are there any tutorials on how to get started? What's the development language?
All I need to do is create a simple text interface to input a few parameters to run some complex financial calculations on the back end.
A really sophisticated application would pull live interest rates or other data and enter that in.
Start with this:
developer.android. com/resources/tutorials/ hello-world.html
(take away the spaces, I cant post links yet )
These are all great tutorials that will walk you through the basic processes and applications/layouts. The only issue you will have is when/if you decide to go through the "Tabs View" tutorial, there are a lot of errors in the code, and I have no idea why no one have changed it, but you can PM me for the correct version.
If you want some basics on Java, just do a google search, there are a lot of great tutorials out there for beginning Java. I recommend doing this first, just so you have a good understanding of Java(which is the development language), it will *REALLY* help out. You can incorporate other languages, but for the time being, stick with Java.
Yes, the SDK comes with an emulator so that you can test your programs without having to install them on a real device. In addition to what Jimmy said (and I can't stres highly enough that you should start with the Android Developer's website and tutorials), you can go to Stack Overflow which is a programming Q&A website. People there are generally very helpful, as long as you've shown you've actually put some effort into solving your problem before you posted your question.
Fair enough... So it's basically about learning to programme for Java? How hard would it be, realistically, for someone with no application development experience?
You need a basic grasp of objected oriented design & programming, along with an understanding of the Java language. When it comes to gui aspects & all communication with other apps/data on the device, you have Android, rather than the usual Java class libraries such as awt or swing.
How hard? It's doable, imo, but will depend on aptitude. Start with Java & then add in Android when you feel like more material to get your head around.
So basically getting started requires me to learn application development like on any other platform, in OO and Java. I may as well do a course or something then. Would a few weeks doing some sort of intro course help?
I'm sure an appropriate course could be very helpful. Though I'd steer clear of those short courses claiming to turn anyone into a valuable skilled programmer in only xx weeks, if only because the tutor will probably know less than you on the subject. Better one which makes credible claims regarding its introductory nature. A couple of degree level intro modules on OO or Java should be of help.
Hey guys, over the summer I began learning Java, so that I could code Android Applications. Unfortunatley, I stopped for whatever the reason(got busy I guess) but now want to get back into it.
For my very first application I would like to create an app for my school as my science fair project entry. This would be my first ever project when creating any type of mobile application. However I do have knowledge in web based programming such as PHP.
The purpose of this message is to ask any willing android developers to help me on this seemingly daunting task. Even if it's just a push into the right direction. I feel that android developing is in my future and now I know where to start.
Thanks for any consideration in regards to my topic. If you are serious about giving me some help, feel free to contact me via pm or in a response to this message.
The Android Developers site is pretty good:
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html
Of course those tutorials assume you can already program in Java, so you might want to find yourself a good "Learn Java" type book first, so that you understand the basics before jumping in to the Android side
I want to develop games for android, but the problem is that I'm totally clueless about how to do it, so if anyone would give me the name of books, site, anything that would point a beginner like me to how to start developing for android, I would be very grateful !!!
thanks in advance
Professional Android 2 Application Development by Reto Meier is a decent book for learning general application programming. It goes over the basics and includes chapters on how to read data from the various sensors, accelerometer, access the camera and whatnot.. Pretty handy if you want to make a robust game.
It doesn't go over OpenGL, so you'll have to find a separate book for that. I'm pretty sure there are some tutorials on http://developer.android.com, but I've never been interested enough to read through it.
Hope that helps, good luck.
thnx a lot, I'll be sure to go over that book, read reviews to see if it's good before diving in
I'm working on an XMPP chat client designed for Honeycomb tablets. I've gotten pretty far on the UI and data model, but I don't have much experience working with Services. I've looked into just modding Beem or Yaxim, but both have different design goals than what I'm looking to do (I eventually want to expand it beyond just XMPP, so I'm abstracting my data model as much as possible, wheras theirs are very coupled with their services).
Right now there aren't any good chat clients that make good use of Fragments, etc. If anyone wants to help me change that, let me know. The end result will be open sourced under either the GPL or Apache. If this generates some interest I'll put what I've got on GitHub and we can discuss how to move forward from there.