I purchased these three e-books online. I came across them while asking questions on the Android beginners Google group. Their author, Mark Murphy is very active on this group answering newb’s questions on a regular basis with detailed and helpful answers. You can even get a full chapter sample to check it out and see whether the writing style jives with your style of learning.
I do recommend a book of some sort for starting out with Android. Without a book you’re sort of left to your own devices. You have to sniff around the Internet at every stage: “How do I use the Android database classes?”, “How do layouts work?”, you can spend a lot of time googling and following time wasting paths through pages that don’t give the answers you’re looking for. I was doing a lot of this and these books have cut down on that time drastically.
The Android project is coming along well. I’m spending a lot of time just thinking about how to best solve problems the Android way, a lesson I learned on the iPhone, to make sure I don’t back myself into bad corners that are hard to get out of.
