Hands On With Android

Android is that “other” smartphone platform, and it's everything the iPhone isn't: it's open source, it's programmed in a familiar language (Java, heard of it?), its development tools are free, its market is unrestricted (for better and for worse), and it even lets multiple apps run simultaneously. This session is about getting started with Android: where to find the tools and the documentation, and how to code, package, and deploy basic apps onto your Android smart phone.

We'll discuss the free tools available for creating Android apps, including the SDK, and the emulator and the Eclipse plugin. There's something fundamentally wonderful about building an application you can hold in the palm of your hand, and Android is a gateway to that personal, mobile world of applications.

About Howard Lewis Ship

Howard Lewis Ship is the original creator of the Apache Tapestry project, and is a noted expert on Java framework design and developer productivity. He has over twenty years of full-time software development under his belt, with over fifteen years of Java. He cut his teeth writing customer support software for Stratus Computer, but eventually traded PL/1 for Objective-C and NeXTSTEP before settling into Java.

Howard has been developing financial and e-commerce applications in 100% Clojure since 2012.

Howard currently works for Wal-Mart's Global E-Commerce division. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Suzanne, and his children, Jacob and Olivia.

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