* Welcome Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins & Robi Sen

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

This week, we're delighted to have Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins & Robi Sen helping to answer questions about the new book Unlocking Android

The promotion starts Tuesday, March 24th 2009 and will end on Friday, March 27th 2009.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Manning.

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

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

[Monu Tripathi]

A very warm welcome to you all; thanks for choosing JavaRanch!

[Michael Rivera]

Oh, Welcome to JavaRanch and a big thanks for helping us learn the Android Technology better by providing us books!

[Sudarshan Sreenivasan]

I am as random as you get.I would like the book

[chetan deol]

Welcome you all in javaranch

[Uros Mesaric]

Hi;

I had my time with J2ME. I was implementing google notes app on mobile, and belive me I had rough time making it work on couple of phones. I had dozen of workarounds. Will Andro solve this agony of programing mobile and otheh small (embedded) devices? If yes? Why are other smarts using Window$ Mobile?
What would it take to make Andro work on those phones? For example all other HTC phones are running Windows Mobile. Can those be flashed with Android.
What about Nokia?

All said, next month I am getting G1 and hope that Andro gets out of "Google Beta" - 1.1 is still beta. When you have at least dozen of phones running it and more than developers market it will stay in beta!

Lp;
Uroš;

[Shia LaBeouf]

Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:
This week, we're delighted to have Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins & Robi Sen helping to answer questions about the new book Unlocking Android

The promotion starts Tuesday, March 24th 2009 and will end on Friday, March 27th 2009.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Manning.

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

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

Wellcome

[Melapatam Srinivasan]

I am learning android...would love to get a copy of the book.

[Tejaswee Premchand]

Hi,

I am a big fan of Android,

They are releasing Android enabled phone in UK in April'09. Cant wait to get my hands on it, being a Java developer from past 8 years. I would love to develop applications for Android community "Go Android Go" .

This book will be a g8 kick start my exploration to open source programming!

[Devender Thareja]

Welcome Frank, Charlie and Robi !!

[jeff mutonho]

Welcome Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins & Robi Sen

In your experience developing with Android , which IDE would your recommend between Netbeans(using the nandroid plugin) or Eclipse (using the Android Eclipse plugin) ?
How do the two plugins fair against each other? Which of the two would you recommend for someone new to Android?

[Jaikiran Pai]

jeff mutonho wrote:

In your experience developing with Android , which IDE would your recommend between Netbeans(using the nandroid plugin) or Eclipse (using the Android Eclipse plugin) ?
How do the two plugins fair against each other? Which of the two would you recommend for someone new to Android?

Please note that this thread is meant for welcoming the authors. You have a better chancing of getting answers (and even winning a copy of the book), if you start a new topic for this question in the forum

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Welcome Frank, Charlie & Robi

[John Miller-George]

[Edit: this topic is for welcoming the authors, not for asking questions. Please post questions in a new topic.

Also, "JL MG", please check your private messages for an important administrative matter.]

[Elton Kuzniewski]

It's very nice this brand new option to know and learn about Android. Google is investing a lot of money in this project and I'm pretty sure that it will be the future.
Congratulations to the tree authors! It's a really nice step for a great opportunity.

[Flavio Medeiros]

Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins & Robi Sen, welcome guys !

PS.: I'm an Android starter programmer...give me a copy of the book...please ;)

Flavio Medeiros Sales
www.flaviomedeiros.com

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Flavio,
Welcome to JavaRanch!

You know that posting in this thread doesn't enter you in the contest to win a book, right? To be eligible to win, you need to either create a new thread or reply in an existing one. That post needs to be on topic - "I want a book" doesn't count.