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Kenny; When I worked at Sony a few years ago I helped write part of the layer that lived between the Linux kernel and Dalvik for the XPeria X10 (which I freaking love). Now that they are available in the US one of my team-mates sent me a developers version that I can hack away at; I cannot wait. My coding was about 90pct C++ and the rest Java/Android so I am not that great at Android yet. I think my first project is going to be a decent .CBR/.CBZ reader for Android (running in on my X10 and hopefully my Nook which also run Android) so I can finally read my manga w/o using a laptop/netbook.
Anyhow all of that aside I am writing to ask what you thought of the Busy Coders book; I ordered it once from Amazon and when it didn't show up in a week I checked the status and the estimated date of arrival was 4 months in the future. I am way too into the instant gratification thing to wait so I canceled it and bought Android Wireless Application Development (Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey) instead; it is based on an older rev of the Dalvik VM but that is fine b/c so is the X10 (1.6). The reason for that is that the UI has been heavily updated/skinned and the kernel now gens Facebook, MySpace, etc events and pushes them (along with things like media updates and synchronization) through the JNI to Android for the "Timescape" and "Mediascape" interfaces. Still, the Busy coders book looked interesting (why I tried to buy it in the first place) so I would like to know your thoughts on it when you finish. I am beyond the space of needing a dummies book but Android and Java in general take a different mind-set than I have been working with the past decade or so (firmware and embedded stuff). I almost wish there was a "Tao of Android" book out there somewhere. Still one of the funnest projects I have worked on....
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