* Welcome Mark Murphy

[Henry Wong]

This week, we're delighted to have Mark Murphy helping to answer questions about the new book The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development.

The promotion starts Tuesday, March 3rd 2009 and will end on Friday, March 6th 2009.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a choice of either a free hardcopy of the book, or a one year subscription to online books, provided by the publisher, CommonsWare, LLC.

The subscription includes unlimited online access, including all updates to this and other books, that come out over the next year. See http://commonsware.com/ for complete details.

Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing.

[Muhammad Saifuddin]

Welcome to Javaranch,

[Sonny Gill]

Welcome, Mark.

I started learning about Android recently, and I keep running into your blog posts or messages every time I search for some information. I am looking forward to the discussions here this week.

- Sonny

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Welcome Mark!

[Monu Tripathi]

Welcome Mark and thanks for choosing JavaRanch !!

[Tomasz Prus]

Hi all!

[martlbub]

greetings from germany!

martin

[Matt Allen]

Welcome Mark. Looks like a great book to get into Android.

Thanks-

[Devender Thareja]

Welcome Mark !

[Pavan Masali]

Welcome to JavaRanch Mark,

Looking forward to get into developing mobile applications, Android is really the future of mobile applications.

Thanks,

Pavan Masali

[Srikanth Munjuluri]

HI sir,trying for the first time...lets see....i Wish I win.......

[Shailesh Narkhede]

Hi All,
Have a nice Day.

[fahd helwani]

Welcome Mark

it's good to have you here.

[Mourouganandame Arunachalam]

Welcome Mark and we could see you are more responsive.

Our questions are getting answered as soon as we post. It's really great.

[Henry Wong]

Srikanth Munjuluri wrote:HI sir,trying for the first time...lets see....i Wish I win.......

Just as a reminder, please review the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning. Some posts, like posts in this topic, posts from users with naming violations, posts that is out of context for this forum, "I wish I win" posts, etc. are not eligible. So please review.

Henry

[Srikanth Nutigattu]

Hello,

I have prior experience on J2ME, Blackberry application development. Now, I am planning to explore the new territory of Andriod. Do you think my Java,J2ME skills help me in Grasping Application development skills in Android faster?

Could you let me know, how much is the development methodology of Andriod is similar/dissimilar to other mobile application(J2ME) development.

Thanks!!
By the way, mobile developers like us will surely love your book on this new technology.

[Fred Grott]

The skill sets and knowledge is similar. I was originally J2me and Symbian and now I am creating a Home Screen Widget System for Android.

Go over lifecycle of Android App concepts first as its different than the midlet lifecycle you are use to..

You shouldbe fine..

Srikanth Nutigattu wrote:Hello,

I have prior experience on J2ME, Blackberry application development. Now, I am planning to explore the new territory of Andriod. Do you think my Java,J2ME skills help me in Grasping Application development skills in Android faster?

Could you let me know, how much is the development methodology of Andriod is similar/dissimilar to other mobile application(J2ME) development.

Thanks!!
By the way, mobile developers like us will surely love your book on this new technology.

[chetan dhumane]

Welcome Mark