Looking to start developing

[edjm711]

Hello all! I'm looking to start making my own live wallpapers and icons. I have years of experience in content creation using CGI creation software and Photoshop, but no experience coding. My question is how much coding experience do I need? Does software exist that takes AVI files, Quicktime, etc, and allows them to be used as live wallpapers? I am willing to learn to code for the platform, but to get started I'd like to get my practice in and post my practice up for free for all to enjoy. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!!!

[timlab1955]

I'm a noivce programmer in VB and would like to learn how to develop apps for my samsung vibrant and others. But I have no clue where to start or what I need to download to my computer to develop. Can someone help me start off? Thanks.

[Smultron]

I just got acces to Beta of the new ''App inventor'' its easy to learn and very nice to handle i recomend it strong!

[krnzmaster]

Is App Inventor free?

[CoolBreeze]

You will need an IDE, most people use Eclipse and you'll also need the Android SDK, as well as Java SE SDK. You can ease the setup a little by using Motorola's MotoDev Studio, which is based off of Eclipse and pretty much includes everything you need to get started. You'll then want to hit the Android SDK documentation and I'd suggest getting a book to use in conjunction like Beginning Android 2.

• MOTODEV > Documentation & Tools > MOTODEV Studio
• The Developer's Guide | Android Developers
• Amazon.com: Beginning Android 2 (9781430226291): Mark Murphy: Books

[The Droid Lion]

I too would like to start developing, or at least I would like to attempt/play-around-with developing apps. My questions...

1.) Is there a basic set of tools needed?
2.) Would it cost me anything to get started?
3.) I have basically no programing or software developmental skills, but I learn very fast and have no problems reading through large bits of text to learn what I need to know. Is this enough or should I not even bother?

...I think I can.

[The Droid Lion]

You will need an IDE, most people use Eclipse and you'll also need the Android SDK, as well as Java SE SDK. You can ease the setup a little by using Motorola's MotoDev Studio, which is based off of Eclipse and pretty much includes everything you need to get started. You'll then want to hit the Android SDK documentation and I'd suggest getting a book to use in conjunction like Beginning Android 2.

• MOTODEV > Documentation & Tools > MOTODEV Studio
• The Developer's Guide | Android Developers
• Amazon.com: Beginning Android 2 (9781430226291): Mark Murphy: Books

Good info... :P

[timlab1955]

Last night I made my first app and it shocked me. I used the Is App Inventor and it's great! Had a little trouble at first to find the usb for my type of phone, but after that it was awsome. Tonight I'm going to try and make my next app. Hope this works out for me and if it does, I'm on my way. Good luck to anyone who is wondering how to do the same thing.

[krnzmaster]

but isnt app inventor only for personal app making only? and i would think it is only good for showing what happens, since you dont get to see the actual code. i dont know yet b/c i havent received it so correct me if im wrong.

[krnzmaster]

hi, i just started to try and develop and ive been reading/learning about java and it seems to be a very good starting point. i dont think you need to be an expert at it, you just need to know most to all of the basics i guess. i dont know about the avi files but hope this helped some.