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I really like the books by Mark Murphy at commonsware.com. I have submitted some errata to Mark, and I think I have a spare coupon code you could use for a 6 mo
by briancooley 16y ago
I really like the books by Mark Murphy at commonsware.com. I have submitted some errata to Mark, and I think I have a spare coupon code you could use for a 6 month subscription if you want to take a look. My email is in my profile. Mark also does a one hour Office Hours session about twice a week, and that's been helpful.
As for ORM, I have been using SQLiteOpenHelper and SQLiteDatabase directly, but I had heard that you can use Hibernate (edit: don't think this is true). Also, there is one that recently released but is not free (I have not tried it and have no affiliation): https://www.activeandroid.com/ https://www.activeandroid.com/
As for platform target, I would just go with Android 1.6 unless you need something specific from the more recent releases. That covered most of the market in January, and there have been a ton of 2.0 and higher phones sold since then.
I'm far from an expert, but I'd be glad to chat with you if you run into any questions. (I'm working in the other direction, trying to learn some iPhone OS)
- wallflower 16y agoAndroid 1.6 seems like a good LCD target and 2.2 seems like the new hotness. > I'm far from an expert Don't discount yourself. I honestly don't like the expert title, as I feel its misapplied in most instances. Feel free to post an Ask HN on Android to iPhone and I'll do a braindump (still trying to preserve my semi-anonymity but may drop it just to collaborate with the HN community) I had no idea you could use Hibernate on a frigging phone. That scares the hell out of me - as in it opens the door for crazy thoughts like will mobile environments become so powerful you use real Java stuff like Spring.
- briancooley 16y agoMy comment about Hibernate was wrong. A while back, I saw a thread on StackOverflow about ORM's on Android that linked to another thread about Hibernate. I just went back and looked and the linked comment was suggesting "lightweight alternatives to Hibernate." Threads in question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/371538/any-good-orm-tools-for-android-development http://stackoverflow.com/questions/371538/any-good-orm-tools... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/296587/light-weight-alternative-to-hibernate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/296587/light-weight-alter...
- wallflower 16y agoThanks for the correction. sqlite seems to be ok, marshalling and unmarshalling into Java.