All in all this took me about a week and a half. I found a few more similar tutorials on the web, and followed them just to learn how Android Studio works. Once I had a inkling of how the user interface builder worked, I went further into Google's training program, learning how to start a new 'Activity' (a new window in your app. This part was somewhat familiar, as it was similar to using the drawing tools in Microsoft Word (dragging and dropping shapes). Once I was able to do that, I simply tried adding things to it.

I spent a day trying to get the basic 'Hello World' program to run, despite the code already being done (Google puts it in there at the start of a new project). It is a combination of theoretical and practical guide that covers skills and knowledge every developer should learn before starting the Android development.

So with Java under my belt (EDIT: okay not really but enough to start), I downloaded Android Studio from here and went straight to the Training course offered directly from Google ( here).Īt first, Android Studio was a nightmare.

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