Watch for this free, online workshop, starting February 9, 2010: http://android.eventbrite.com

- Overview

1. Course approach (bottom up)
2. Android stack
3. Linux
4. Native libraries (including Dalvik VM)
5. Runtime (surface manager, OpenGL, SQLite, webkit browser)
6. Android framework
7. Applications

- Getting Started

1. Download and install Java; add it to your path.
2. Download and install Android SDK.

- The Command-Line Tools

1. adb
2. android
3. aapt (Android resource compiler), now (?) apkbuilder
4. ddms

- Android Scripting Environment (ASE)

1. Barcode Scanner
2. TTS Service Extended (set language engine) [vs. Google Talk Service?]

- Concepts

1. Activity
2. Intent
3. Model-View-Controller
4. View (resource)
5. XML format

- Tips and Tricks

1. adb shell setprop dalvik.vm.enableassertions all