Learn language or languish

Android has a pretty neat development environment utilising java as it's main base with a few quirky bits thrown in for good measure. I found similar to my earlier attempts at programming for mobile devices you have to turn the good practices of programming upside down to exploit the small memory and power of devices.

The syntax for programming for Android is slightly familiar to me and it's all coming back quite nicely.

Today I decided to do an hour or so on my Android project. It's a location thingy and that's all I'm saying for now. It allows a simple sign up and a very thin social network model.

I have created the user input for creating an account with validation and was at the stage of needing net connection to send the sign up information.

After five minutes of searching I found an example which detailed exactly how easy it is to do these complex tasks in Android / Java.

I'm glad to say I will be moving on to JSON formatted data posts in my next encounter. For those who may stumble upon this post looking for a way to connect the application to the internet here is the link that allowed me to do so in 30 minutes flat.

Rich Stern's Blog (http://blog.richstern.com/?p=32)

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