An opportunity that allows me to take a break from work so I took it. I always want to learn developing software for the Android platform but never really have time to get into it beside a few weeks of playing with my HTC phone and the Motorola Xoom tablet trying to root them.
To start off with the project, I spend a couple weeks learning the official Android programming language which is Java. Although I spend many years working with C, C++ and many other programming languages through out my career, I never have a need to learn Java until now. Java looks similar to C++ in many respects, but it is quite a bit different once I delve deeper into the language. One thing immediate clears to me from the very beginning that Java seems to have all the libraries and packages available at one's disposal. One no longer needs to write code to perform mundane simple tasks anymore.
Once I could understand Java code comfortably, I downloaded the ADT tool from Google and started to get familiar with it. The tool used Eclipse IDE with all the Android specific plug-ins installed. It was similar to Microsoft Developer Studio tool that I had used for few years earlier, but it was a little bit confusing at first -- and it is still very confusing, but thanks to the internet, Google Search, and StackOverflow, I became very proficient with the tool in a very short time.
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