Excited and learning Google Android development

I am execited about Google Android based phone lately. I am learning and finding some resources about Android and also development. For the moment right now, there are some Android phone in the market, such as Motorola DROID, HTC Magic, HTC Hero, Sony Ericssion X10 and so on. For more information about Android powered phone, please take a look at http://www.androphones.com/. If you are still wondering what is Android, you may find some details about Android Mobile OS from Wikipedia. For developers in Android, I found some simple tutorials that helps me to understand Android development. There are listed as below, you may need Eclipse or Netbeans IDE to develop it:

• How to Program Google Android http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-19-n27.html
• Android Development with Eclipse http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html
• Introduction to Android development by IBM http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-android-devel/
• Google Android Tutorial http://java.dzone.com/articles/google-android-tutorial

And for sure, we won't miss out the tutorials and dev guides from Android Official site: http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html and also forum http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers.

Some Android development related videos:

• A first hand look at building an Android application http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ObTqIiYfE
• Android Talk Channel in Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/androiddevelopers

In case you are in living Malaysia especally Kuala Lumpur area, you may attend their meet up all the times. Please get more details from the Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=133530318700&ref=ts. Last but not least, try to join this forum too, I found out it have quite number of resources http://www.anddev.org/viewforum.php?f=8. And for the Android mobile phone beginners, you may try to take a look at the list of Android Starter Apps shared by CNET,

Editted 31-DEC-09

Added some blogrolls that write Android related posts, please enjoy :

http://saigeethamn.blogspot.com/

http://www.helloandroid.com/tutorials

http://davanum.wordpress.com

http://bakhtiyor.com/

Resource for Google Maps Developer

I am learning how to use Google Maps API and doing mash up recently. The Google Map is very useful for those want to do GIS developing. The GMaps API is quite mature nowadays and very powerful. The features of the Google Maps such as Street View, Get Directions from one point to another point and some party or developer even mash up with transportation schedule, earth quake notification and so on.

The links shown below are the site that publish tutorials for Google Map:

http://econym.org.uk/gmap/

http://marcgrabanski.com/article/jquery-google-maps-tutorial-basics

http://marcgrabanski.com/article/jquery-google-maps-tutorial-ajax-php-mysql

http://www.designing4u.de/2008/05/google-maps-and-jquery-drop-down-and-clickable-maps/

And this is the Google Map plugin for jQuery if you are using jquery.

http://github.com/digitalspaghetti/jmaps/

If you are so excited about it, let's read the blog below to keep up to-date what mash up are up everyday:

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

Updated my blogspot layout

Incase you didn't take notice on the layout of my blog, just FYI, I just updated my blogspot theme. This theme makes my blog looks more tidy and neat. The previous layout makes my blog looks messy. This time I have adapt a more clean and Web 2.0 feels style. Anyway, please kindly help me to vote the poll below if I need more improvement?

Quiz for Web 2.0

How well do you know AJAX or Web 2.0? Please go through this quiz then you will know well you are? Please kindly comment your marks here and share with us. :D

XNA Game Studio & Resources

I was attracted by Microsoft XNA framework. I learned Direct X before. But, after that I gave up. at last. Now, I am attracted by XNA framework. To me, it is a very cool and robust framework allow you to code and design a game. It is really cool~I just downloaded XNA Game Studio Express and installed in my home desktop. I plan to learn it up and design my game. Wow, really looking for it now. Anyway, I bookmark some links for learning XNA framework and I am putting here:

• http://rijit.spaces.live.com/Lists/cns%21BB6FFC2B7E60179C%21171/
• http://xna101.spaces.live.com/
• http://www.xnatutorial.com/?page_id=46
• http://learnxna.com/
• http://www.xnadevelopment.com/
• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb200104.aspx

added (21/12/2006):

• http://www.xnaresources.com/blog.asp?action=viewarticle&articleid=69

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