I've been slowly working through the android development tutorials, perhaps a bit more slowly than I'd like, not because I'm finding development difficult (on the contrary, it seems to flow quite well) but rather because of my life's constant supply of distractions.
Looking ahead through the tutorials, and at the one's I've already completed I'd say I'm quite impressed with the android toolkit. Perhaps simply because I haven't got to the point where the "Library Hell" I've heard talked about is of significance. The base functions of the toolkit and it's wonderful Eclipse plugin have put a smile on my face; too many times have I worked with toolkits and APIs where for every new file, asset, class or whatever you needed to write a massive boilerplate of references and constant variables, but it looks like I've been given this cute little R.java file that updates itself automatically when I just drag a file into the projects folder, vunderbar! And the XML for all the layout data seems actually readable and usable, maybe as my UIs get more complex it will turn into the mishmash of indecipherable tags that XML normally becomes, but for now I am in the early stages of blissful ignorance.
This post has probably been boring for anyone who has done android development before, but I felt happy. Just think of this as a notification that I'm not dead yet, all zero followers can feel content in this!
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