Hello, Android

Thanks for buying Hello, Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform. As you know, it’s currently a beta book, which means the chapters in the PDF may be incomplete and, despite our best efforts, may contain mistakes and omissions. Please report any problems on our bug tracker page .

In addition, you can discuss anything related to the book in this forum. For example, if you have an important topic you think should be covered, or you would like to share some of your Android wisdom with other readers, the forum is the perfect place. Don’t be shy—any changes will be harder for me to put in the book as the final publish date approaches, so comment early and often.

Be sure to check out my blog at ZDNet where I often write about Android related topics. In fact several sections in the book were first tested out as blog entries.

Another good resources is Planet Android , an aggregator for all the Android blogs I know about. Do you have one that’s not listed? Let me know and I’ll add it.

Finally, you can always reach me directly by sending email. My gmail.com account is “ed.burnette”. (Let’s see a spam harvester figure out that one!)

Cheers,
—Ed

Ed,

Firstly, thanks for your book. I’m just starting out with Android and as you get onto the more advanced topics I guess it is going to be more and more valuable.
One of the things I am struggling to get my head around are intents. Maybe they are worth a section. As far as I can see they are one entity usedfor many purposes… here are a few headings you might consider explaining in more detail.

1) Using intents to launch sub activities
2) Using Intents to launch external activities
3) Using intents for restful operations
4) Using intents for background broadcasting
5) Subscribing to standard Phone broadacast intents
6) registering scheme handling intents

There’s an example of the background broadcasting on my blog. http://blog.droidapps.co.uk feel free to use it if appropriate.

Hope the feedback helps,

regards, Matt