Hello Android again

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I have been busy since few months ago and at last have some free time to continue explore Android development.  I didn't post about Android related topic since last year about 28-December 2009.  I already did some research about the blogs, recommended books, sources and forums that related to Android development since few months ago. I will share some of them here and you may find more resource from my last post that I wrote on 28-December-2009:
Blogs:

• http://blog.lytsing.org/
  • Blog that have Android related post and written in Chinese.
• http://www.androidcore.com 
  • A Blog that contains a lot of tutorials
• http://www.wiseandroid.com 
  • Blog that post about Android tutorials and thoughts
• http://www.androidcompetencycenter.com/ 
  • Blog that help you to build your Android skills
• http://mylifewithandroid.blogspot.com 
  • I like it and a very informative blog

Forums

• http://www.eoeandroid.com/ 
  • Forum, this is useful if you know Chinese or learned Chinese before
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android
  • Well known forum for developers that called StackOverflow
• http://www.anddev.org/ 
  • Forum that let you ask about Android related questions

Source codes

• http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/  
  • It hosted about 16 Android app source code, you may download the source code to learn how they are coded.
• http://code.google.com/p/android-smspopup/
  • Sample app that listen to SMS Broadcast receiver that will popup SMS notification.
• http://code.google.com/p/opensudoku-android/
  • You can learn and read the Sudoku game source code here

Books

• http://commonsware.com/Android/
  • The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development book from Commonsware
  • You may buy Warescription to have access right to download his four Android e-books.I found out it is quite easy to learn.
• http://101freetechbooks.com/bookdetail.aspx?id=90ff9d9c-b8a9-4210-90f0-f1a84ab2b97f
  • Pro Android 2 book from APress 
• http://101freetechbooks.com/bookdetail.aspx?id=c00d3307-3784-43da-8d1f-b8419d2ff01c
  • Pro Android Games that teach you how to start your game development on Android mobile device. 
• http://101freetechbooks.com/bookdetail.aspx?id=344c6cad-22aa-403d-ac87-59e0306103e4
  • Best Android Apps book from O'Reilly Media that I like to read it to have Android market survey. 

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