Android application development

I recently wrote a series of articles for my previous employers - Softwire - on the subject of Android development. The full series has now been posted on the Softwire blog. Links below...

Introduction

"These articles are intended as a quick-start guide to getting yourself up and running developing Android applications. The idea is to provide a quick guide that follows the development of an application touching a few more areas of the system than the basic ‘Hello World’. It’s aimed at developers familiar with Java who want to learn more about developing for Android.

The app we’ll be developing is a simple GPS application, able to request and read some coordinates from GPS hardware aboard the Android device, make use of a web-service to derive some information about the location (this is called reverse-geolocation), and display what it has found out."

Articles on the Softwire Blog

• Part I, getting started with Android and Eclipse, and a skeleton application.
• Part II, retrieving GPS coordinates, displaying them in the view.
• Part III, monitoring the GPS, specifying a frequency, performing a reverse geo-lookup, display the results with a Toast.