Android Index of Gurus, Websites, Books, Classes, Videos, Chats, etc. Here is a compact yet comprehensive list of how to learn about Google Android mobile smartphones and tablets, presented in order of importance and impact, all in one page with clickable flowcharts, wise tips, but without the sales hype and confusing generalities. There are many offerings, at various prices and level of detail using various formats (live, video, text, chats). Related topics elsewhere on this same website (WilsonMar.com):   1. Android Index - Gurus, Websites, Books, Classes, Videos, Chats, etc.   2. Android Versions   3. Android Mobile Devices   4. Mobile Carrier Selection   5. Android Watches   6. Android Device Usage Basics   7. Android App Side-loading   8. Android App Markets and Reviewers   9. Android Utility Apps 10. Android User Apps 11. Android USB Connections 12. Android OS Rooting and Rooted Apps 13. Android App Frameworks 14. Android Java Eclipse Development Setup 15. Android Emulators 16. Android Java Programming and Testing 17. Android App Localization and Testing 18. Android Lifecycle and Testing 19. Android Data Management and Testing 20. Android User Preferences and Experience Features 21. Android UI Programming and Testing 22. HTML5 Features 23. HTML5 Coding and Testing 24. Android User Controls Coding and Testing 25. Android Hardware Control and Testing 26. Android Services Coding and Testing 27. Android App Monetization 28. Android App Marketing 29. Mobile VuGen Scripting for Load Testing 30. Lua Programming

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Certifications and Quizzes

My Android Acronyms for Developers Quizlet covers all acronyms Android developers might encounter. View it using the free

APP: Kaka Flashcard Android app

I haven't heard of a certification for Android programming like the Oracle Certified Professional Java SE Programmer (OCPJP) WIKIPEDIA

In June, 2014 Google developer advocates (including the famous Reto Meier) finished a $149 on-line course on Android Fundamentals at Udacity for developers experienced in other languages. There is a APP: Udacity Android app to keep you learning on the go during the 8 weeks (at 6 hours/week) of the course.

Add to the hello world Java 6+ app in Sunshine Github folder. Open Weather Map API

Best of all, on-line chat with very good looking skinny Californians 11am-11pm Monday through Thursday and 11am-6pm Friday through Sunday (US Pacific time).

The course makes use of the IntelliJ-based IDE Android Studio beta announced at Google I/O 2014. It includes the Android SDK.

Official Information from Android.com

Google's official documents:

• Android Developer SDK
• Android Developer Guide
• Android API Reference

Since 2008 each spring, Google holds their user conference in San Francisco's Moscone Center. Tickets to them sellout within minutes.

• https://developers.google.com/events/io/

I'm grateful Google makes video recordings of some lectures, so I could roam the halls and talk with people and yet still absorb what's new.

• https://www.google.com/events/io/help#!/livestream-and-recordings (June 25-26, 2014)
• https://developers.google.com/events/io/2013
• 2012
• AndroidDevelopers channel has additional videos:
• Androidology 1 of 3 - Architecture Overview by Mike Cleron on the Android dev. team.

Google/Android Insiders

Twitter: Andy Rubin, was Sr. VP in charge of Android Inc. until 2013.

mobile application testing times on Wordpress by the CEO of testing service deviceanywhere.

WEBSITE: Curious-Creature.org by Romain Guy (pronounced "gee").

WEBSITE: Chet

• Twitter: JR Raphael

Mark Murphy

Mark Murphy (to me) has the most in-depth, helpful, and yet economical approach for the sporadic and occassional but intense times I can devote to learning.

Mark's continually updates his books on-line, so you can keep up with the intensely rapid changes in the industry, which makes a hugh difference.

WEBSITE: CommonsWare.com subscription is $45 a year for his on-line book, at 2670 pages as of June, 2014. This is an incredible bargain for the code samples to every conceivable core feature, including work-arounds to weirdness in the SDK.

Code for the book is at https://github.com/commonsguy. The BlankProject.zip there should be used instead of creating a new project within Eclipse, which adds extra stuff not needed.

During AnDevCon II conference San Francisco Nov. 11, 2012, Mark told me that he has thousands of lines of regression test code that he runs against his sample code library when each update of the Android SDK is released. Mark also scripted his website to make links to ebooks on EC2 in several formats so that people can get .pdf files, .mobi files for Amazon Kindle readers, and .epub files for public domain readers such as Moon Reader Pro for Android (which can take advantage of text-to-speach to read books to you). I think Mark is the "Benjamin Franklin" of Android.

The current book combines content that was in 4 separate books. Mark left up old code for them:

• Beginner's Guide GitHub
• The Busy Coder's Guide To Advanced Android Development GitHub
• Tuning GitHub
• Tutorials GitHub complete with LunchList app

Mark conducts occassional chats and conducts live classes as well.

If all that isn't enough, consider that Mark is (by far) the single most frequent responder to questions on
StackOverflow Android topics.

Mark had also authored ebooks from Apress which, despite the "Beginning Android" title, assume understanding of Java concepts.
BOOK: ISBN:9781430224198 1 (2009, 384 page),
BOOK: ISBN:9781430226291 2 (2010, 417 pages), and
BOOK: ISBN:9781430232971 3 (Jul 14, 2011, 580 pages).

Marco Garganta at Markana Videos and eBook

Marko Garganta was one of the first to offer training on Android, via his
WEBSITE: LearningAndroid.com draft ebook from O'Reilly. His

COMPANY: Marakana training seminars was sold to AOL in 2013.

• Android Bootcamp. The military bootcamp imagery is not accidental! These sessions are like getting trained by a sarcastic but loyal big brother. He abuses us with condescending quizzes and berates us about common mistakes. But he also invests time to show how pros avoid mistakes with naming conventions, keyboard shortcuts, and other tricks. This is why I think the deepest videos for new Android developers are Marco's AnDevCon presentation Mar. 8, 2011 Android for Java Developers:
• 1 on Eclipse, app lifecycles
• 2 on intents, service lifecycles, content providers, broadcast receivers
• 3 on bound services
• 4 (missing the first hour) Traceview timeline, Multi-threading, Hierarchy Viewer,
• MarakanaTV channel has an in-depth 5-day Android Application Development Tutorial from San Jose 10 Dec 2010.
• Class 1, Part 1 - A 9,000 foot overview
Class 1, Part 2 - Helloworld (anatomy of an Android app
• Class 1, Part 3 - Main Building Blocks
• Class 1, Part 4 - Android UI
• Class 2, Part 1 - Spicing up the UI
• Class 2, Part 2 - Drawables
• Class 2, Part 3 - Traceview
• Class 2, Part 4 - AsyncTask, Preferences, and Options Menu
• Class 3, Part 1 - Application Object
• Class 3, Part 2 - Android Service Example
• Class 3, Part 3 - Databases
• Class 4, Part 1 - StatusData [SaveYouTube.com]
• Class 4, Part 2 - TimelineActivity
• Class 4, Part 3 - Lists and Adapters
• Class 5, Part 1 - BaseActivity
• Class 5, Part 2 - Publishing to Android Market
• Class 5, Part 3 - Broadcast Receivers
• Class 5, Part 4 - Location Sensors

With these, you don't need the O'Reilly videos by Tony Hillerson, a Software Architect for EffectiveUI.

VIDEO: $99 each - CreativeLive Part 1 and 2 (build sample Twitter app)

Wei-Meng Lee Books and Live Seminars

Wei-Meng Lee has a high bandwidth for technologies. He conducts live classes in both iPhone and Android development through his company learn2develop.net in Singapore and Atlanta, GA. A contributor to several Code magazines, he was a Microsoft .NET Compact Framework MVP, authored Professional Windows Vista Gadgets Programming, C# 2008 Programmer's Reference, and ASP.NET. He also wrote iPhone equivalents to his books on Android:
BOOK: ISBN:9781118017111
Beginning Android Programming
(Wrox Press, 2011, 448 pages)

BOOK: ISBN:9781118106730
Beginning Android Tablet Application Development
(Wrox Press, 2011, 288 pages)
Source code at http://wrox.com/

Apress also have Sayed Y. Hashimi, Satya Komatineni, and Dave MacLean author Pro Android
BOOK: ISBN:9781430215967 1 (2009, 484 pages)
BOOK: ISBN:9781430226598 2 (2010), and
BOOK: ISBN:9781430232223 3 (2011)

Deitel

Deitel is a well-known name in programming, as their thick (and expensive) "How To Program" books are used in many college courses.

For 2012 they have a ISBN-13: 978-0-13-212136-1 ISBN-10: 0-13-212136-0
BOOK: books/AndroidFP/ Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (2012, 512 pages)

Pluralsight Videos

Pluralsight is actively developing in-depth videos on Android, in addition to Microsoft.
Their $499 per year plan includes off-line player on handsets.

VIDEO TUTORIAL: Introduction to Android
VIDEO TUTORIAL: Async Programming and Services.
VIDEO TUTORIAL: Android Programming with Intents (4 hr, 14 m) by Jim Wilson
VIDEO TUTORIAL: Mono for Android (4 hr, 14 m) by Jim Wilson

Travis Videos

Travis has a great, young attitude in that he isn't afraid to make mistakes in front of you. A genuine guy.

He presents some of the 200+ Android tutorials at

• TheNewBoston on which Bucky Roberts presents tutorials on Java Programming.

Travis presents videos of his own at


• mybringback channel and on his mybringback.com forum website.
• Android- The Finishing Touches is a gem for covering what no one else covers: integration of AdMob
• Android Development for Absolute Beginners series of 38 videos was rescued from his previous
• Cornboyz Programming channel

Don Felker Videos

Don Felker (based in Phoenix) in his blog has videos on Getting Started with Android Studio, parts 1 thru 3.

He was among the first to create a series of videos about Android at TekPub.com (at Android version 1.6), are now rather dated, but still provide good basics.

1. Introduction to Android Development
2. Android Architecture
3. Building the UI
4. UI Explained Pt 1
5. UI Explained Pt 2
6. Consuming a JSON API
7. Consuming a JSON API Pt. 2
8. Introducing Roboguice is offered no where else.

Don has been working on several for Dummies books.

Android Table Development for Dummies.

Other Videos

• UCLUG intro. to Android Sep 14, 2010, part
1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, 7, 8. Like sitting in on a BBQ with friends making jokes about each other.

Articles and Lectures

• SCSC 509 Lectures on Android Programming by Kenneth Pestka at University of South Carolina upstate campus in Spartanburg presents in-depth slides with code samples.
• IBM DeveloperWorks Introduction to Android Development, 12 May 2009

Developer Hang-outs

• StackOverflow:Android
• Google Group on Android
• Goggle Group android-developers
• Google Group cw-android has transcriipts from 10am ET Thursday Office Hours by Mark Murphy

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• androidadvices.com sends out emails.
• DZone Android Feed
• PlanetAndroid.com new aggregator
• Anddev.org tutorials
• HelloAndroid.com
• AndroidCommunity.com
• Android Forums.com
• LinkedIn.com Android Groups
• Android Forum at CNET

Developer Bloggers

• Intro. to Android with Scala Vimeo video, with code from the MobileCity meet-up group in Atlanta organized by Allan Davis,

• CODE: Lars Vogel describes every step to build his vogella.android.temperature app.
• CODE: David B. Calhoun specializes in mobile performance.
• CODE: Maximiliano Firtman's Mobile Web Programming Blog focuses on emulators and mobilehtml5.org/
• CODE: Andy Matthews.net does jQuery Mobile and Cold Fusion.

CODE: Luke Wroblewski's Articles

CODE: quirksmode.org/mobile/

WEBSITE: andbook!, a free Android Programming eBook, was compiled by site-admin Nicolas Gramlich based on posts and tutorials on the
Anddev.org community. Sources.

WEBSITE: Brighthub

WEBSITE: MobiSoftInfoTech.com

WEBSITE: Appnovation.com Blog from Vancouver, BC

WEBSITE: Mobile Masters Community formed by Antenna Software.

News from Observers (Press)

Everybody has an opinion.

• BGR.com (Boy Genius Report)
• Al Sacco, mobile maestro at CIO.com

• Mobile Nations Monday Brief

WEBSITE: Kevin Benedict at Sys-Con Media conducts interviews with SAP.