I believe it is extremely important to start coding as soon as possible, and do several iterations of "learn by reading" and "learn by doing". The Notepad exam

I believe it is extremely important to start coding as soon as possible, and do several iterations of "learn by reading" and "learn by doing". The Notepad example in the official documentation is a very good Hello World v2: http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/notepad/index.html http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/notepad/ind.... Immediately after doing this one, I believe you have to start coding for that application you have in mind right away. When you learn a bit more, you'll come back and maybe create a custom component instead of that copy-pasted layout piece of XML, or replace that ugly thread by an AsyncTask... As for the article, I really like the selection of material.