I’m going to develop experience with the Android OS so that I can offer my services for porting iPhone apps to the device, or for developing apps capable of running on both systems. We want to port Prescriber’s Letter to the Android as well, so it will be great to jump right in and get some hands on experience as well.
I ordered the development device 2 (which is basically an unlocked HTC Magic) last week, and UPS is showing it should arrive today. I’ll be snooping around in the samples, but my primary goal will be to discover the APIs I will need to use to duplicate the functionality of the iPhone version of Prescriber’s Letter using the Android SDK. I’ll need to learn about the Android equivalents to UITableView, UICustomTableViewCell, UIWebView. I’m betting their XML libraries are probably much easier to use than NSXMLParser. I’m betting I will likely need to write my own equivalents to ASIHTTPRequest as well as ZipArchive so that I can do all the authentication and downloading and unzipping of content bundles. That’s ok though, those aren’t hard tasks. I’ll search around though, it would be nice to find existing implementations for that stuff.
If anyone can recommend any books on Android development that they found useful and not just repeats of SDK docs I’d appreciate any recommendations you may have.
