{"id":14,"date":"2012-02-24T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2013-11-21T23:42:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T22:42:02","slug":"a-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/a-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there isn&#8217;t already, there ought to be a saying: any great program starts with its first steps. Or keystrokes. Or bytes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in my previous post, I am attempting to teach myself to develop for Android. Today I endeavoured\u00a0on this journey, first stop:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/developer.android.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/developer.android.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the official Google website for everything related to developing your Android applications. They have an <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.android.com\/sdk\/installing.html\" target=\"_blank\">installation guide<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.android.com\/guide\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">development guide<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.android.com\/resources\/tutorials\/notepad\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">tutorials<\/a>, etc. If you ever wish to start developing, I suggest you first follow the installation guide and after that, simply read the entire development guide. In my opinion, if \u00a0you&#8217;re an experienced Android user and programmer, you should have no problem reading it from A to Z, without interruption.<\/p>\n<p>So, to summarize;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>installed Eclipse<\/li>\n<li>installed the Java SDK<\/li>\n<li>installed the Android SDK<\/li>\n<li>installed the Android plugin for Eclipse<\/li>\n<li>started reading the guides<\/li>\n<li>installed blogging software on website to keep track of developments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have only fired up Eclipse and the SDK to check if no errors are produced, but a bit later I&#8217;ll try the samples to broaden my understanding. For now I&#8217;ll simply continue reading the guides.<\/p>\n<p>PS: And yeah, I already have an idea for an application I want to develop. It would be a bad idea to simply start this project while not knowing what the goal would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there isn&#8217;t already, there ought to be a saying: any great program starts with its first steps. Or keystrokes. Or bytes. &nbsp; As I mentioned in my previous post, I am attempting to teach myself to develop for Android. Today I endeavoured\u00a0on this journey, first stop:\u00a0http:\/\/developer.android.com\/ This is the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","category-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/android-logo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}