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Hello,
i am interested in developing and customising roms and firmware for smartphones. How should i start learning? What should i study?
Thank you and happy new year

First things first , what does this mean system.out.println("you need to know some Java") ?
Don't google. If you don't know. Learn the basics then move on

I know how to program. I program in C/C++ and java.
As for my question, I didn't mean I want to develop apps for android. I want to learn more about low level stuff, hacking roms etc...

ShadowReaperGR said:
I know how to program. I program in C/C++ and java.
As for my question, I didn't mean I want to develop apps for android. I want to learn more about low level stuff, hacking roms etc...
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If you know "java" decompile a rom and check it out. There's several tuts around too.

Starting to develop

Hello, xdaDevelopers (Is it like that? Or XDADevelopers, or XdaDevelopers, well, doesn't matter, you can leave your opinion about that here, too.)!
I can see this is kinda a common thing around here, but, I really need the basics for programming, with a final goal of being able to make code for Android (from APKs to ROMs and such).
I just need people to point out good sources of learning, with a learning curve, please, that would be a great bonus in understanding what the heck I'm learning, from the basic of basic, to the goal here intended.
Maybe this is a bit too ambitious, but I pretend to be a professional programmer in the future, but I still have a kinda long way to college (3 years), and I wish I could start sooner that, it could even make my college life even simpler.
Well, I hope you leave your enlightenment in this thread. Thank you very much for any opinion given here.

*bump* Sorry. It was already in the second page. I just didn't want it to fall into oblivion.

Well your going to have to stsrt learnibg java if you want to make apps. Read some books. Also take a look at thenewboston channel on youtube.
Im learning myself. You just need to start and don't give up
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I'm also posting (lazy way of subscribing to this post). I knew java, although it was long ago. I'd need a refresh on everything. And then, knowing java is not the only thing you need, as you also need to know how to develop for android itself. Up to date, which book would you guys consider the most easy to follow to learn easily to program?
Thank you!

Yes. I'm asking for links or books (preferably e-books) that could have all that information. I just hope I can become a great XDA developer.

Griffrez said:
I just need people to point out good sources of learning
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+1 to this. i would also like to get into learning how to develop for android.
google has a lot of info on their developers page, it's probably one of the better places to start.
i don't know many other good websites or books though. anyone have suggestions?

If you want to develop Application on Android. You will need...
1.JDK (Java Development Kit), which includes the JRE. ( I use Java SE 7 )
2.Eclipse with the Android Development ( I use Eclipse Classic 3.7.1 )
3.Android Development tools ADT Plugin for Eclipse
( I use android-sdk_r13-windows.zip )
more detail http://androidcontrol.blogspot.com/2011/10/android-development.html

java for the user interface "pretty" part of the apps, but the real heavy-lifting guts of the app (where the real magic happens) will normally be written in c

Tech_Boy said:
Well your going to have to stsrt learnibg java if you want to make apps. Read some books. Also take a look at thenewboston channel on youtube.
Im learning myself. You just need to start and don't give up
Sent from my Galaxy SII
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I'm watching these. These are great. Starting with Java Development.

[Q] programming apps

hello everybody
i dont know if it the right place to post it but i will thanks for the help
i would like to learn how to programming android apps and i understand that i need to know java for the basic and after it html5
so
do you know a good book for java that i can learn from it and the book will be easy to learn from it ?
thank yo all

ohadvaser said:
hello everybody
i dont know if it the right place to post it but i will thanks for the help
i would like to learn how to programming android apps and i understand that i need to know java for the basic and after it html5
so
do you know a good book for java that i can learn from it and the book will be easy to learn from it ?
thank yo all
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Do you have experience in any other programming language?
I usually recommend to just google some android tutorials.
Who said you need html5 ?

[Q] Related to Java learning for android app development.

Hello! I have started learning java for android app development. I ve bought this book called Learn Java for android development by Jeff Friesen. I also learn from other sources. But sometimes there are codes, that i cannot understand and i think that I ll never become a good developer.
Does this happen to every newbie? Please give me some tips if you are an experienced developer?

alternative to java
If you have problems learning java try basic4android, and you can develope apps for android in language witch is similar to Basic, easy to learn, but powerful

vighaneshsharma said:
Hello! I have started learning java for android app development. I ve bought this book called Learn Java for android development by Jeff Friesen. I also learn from other sources. But sometimes there are codes, that i cannot understand and i think that I ll never become a good developer.
Does this happen to every newbie? Please give me some tips if you are an experienced developer?
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Have you tried an app tutorial? It might add to your knowledge base.

It is not easy to start learning java with some specific framework (like Android Application Framework).
When something is not clear in the code, i suggest you should try switching to the basic core java stuff and do some tutorials on that.
After that you will have an understanding and more confidence in learning android development.
Good luck.

Thnqq every1
Thnqq every1 for help! I really appreciate u people and i followed ur suggestions now i can do some medium level programming! thnx

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hatab001 said:
If you have problems learning java try basic4android, and you can develope apps for android in language witch is similar to Basic, easy to learn, but powerful
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I saw screenshots of basic4android but the coding looked completely different from java. Sorry! but i am a newbie. Can you tell me which language is that and which is easier and can i make games from this? Thank You! :good: :good:

good java starting tutorial?

Hello everyone.I'm a big fan of android in general and recently I've decide that I wanted to learn android programming in order to make games.However this turned out to be a bigger task than I expected.Not because I thought programming will be easy(I know it's not), but because I really can't find a good tutorial on programming.All tutorials I've found teach you like the HelloWorldApp where it says do this write this but I need the very basics like what do methods do, what does everything In ecplise mean.I have a lets say "limited" or basic knowledge of programming in C.
So if anyone could direct me to a link about the very basics, like syntax etc. I would be really grateful.
Thank you in advance

Anyone?

I learned android programming here http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHALE0WtcSB1E0dt7IaGqWA. Those are pretty good tutorials with good examples and there are lots of different tutorials (java, android, android engines, etc) on this channel.

Thank you very much!
I'll be sure to check them out.

GugiUF said:
Hello everyone.I'm a big fan of android in general and recently I've decide that I wanted to learn android programming in order to make games.However this turned out to be a bigger task than I expected.Not because I thought programming will be easy(I know it's not), but because I really can't find a good tutorial on programming.All tutorials I've found teach you like the HelloWorldApp where it says do this write this but I need the very basics like what do methods do, what does everything In ecplise mean.I have a lets say "limited" or basic knowledge of programming in C.
So if anyone could direct me to a link about the very basics, like syntax etc. I would be really grateful.
Thank you in advance
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Go to YouTube and search for mybringback and look at their tutorials.
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obscuresword said:
Go to YouTube and search for mybringback and look at their tutorials.
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I've been checking out this tutorials and they've helped me a lot about understanding how stuff works, but the problem is that they seem to be a bit outdated which is my main problem with all the tutorials I've encountered with on the net.Some new stuff is added some things are done different so I'm looking for a tutorial that is updated to this version I'm using, which would be the most recent one.

GugiUF said:
I've been checking out this tutorials and they've helped me a lot about understanding how stuff works, but the problem is that they seem to be a bit outdated which is my main problem with all the tutorials I've encountered with on the net.Some new stuff is added some things are done different so I'm looking for a tutorial that is updated to this version I'm using, which would be the most recent one.
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To be honest, some stuff you are just going to have to learn on your own. Most tutorials just teach the basic stuff you'll need so that you can build upon it.