Hello,
I've been an Android user for a while, but now I'm actually pretty interested in learning to become either a dev or a themer, but I don't really know too much about any of the languages or anything.
Is there anyone who would be willing to help me learn? It's something that I'm very interested in doing, and willing to dedicate a lot of time into it.
If you're interested in seeing my only theme I've made (which is for Go Launcher EX) you can check it out on the Facebook page: Droid Fans (free download too)! I would post it here but I don't have enough posts.
Thanks!
Honestly, you really don't need someone to teach you. There is a wealth of information, guides and tutorials here at xda and on the web. The android development site is a great place to start. All it takes is a true desire to learn.
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I searched for post on this subject and didn't find any, and I am making sure I post in Q&A
I am interested in Android programming and would appreciate some professional advice on what software I would need to get started and any tutorials that I should get to get a good foundation to learn. I would be grateful for any help.
Thanks
Second that. There's a lot of info in the forums, but more reading material never hurts. (Unless its for work or school. That would suck)
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Here's a great start!
http://developer.android.com/index.html
bcparker over at sdx-developers has created a simply amazing samsung moment theme called minimal elegance. Anyone interested in porting it? I tried using some of the autoporting scripts with no luck so far.
I'd post a link but I don't have permission yet... haven't been a member of the forum long enough.
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That's one sexy theme. Can't post links either sorry.
I particularly like the dialer.
I can always be persuaded 2 people wanting the same thing use not enuff
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That's a nice theme. I'd request this too.
nice i want
Me want this as welll. Pretty please
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Thanks to everyone expressing interest. If any of you could post the link to the sdx board (like I said can't yet) that might help drum up some interest.
Much thanks!
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here is your link sir
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/theme-files/(bcparker)-minimal-elegance-v4-released!/
looks really nice!
with all the recent b/s going on with my theme i choose not to dev, port anything for android anymore.
@venumx
Thanks for the link!
@mysteryemotionz
I'm very sorry you had a poor experience. My quick search didn't find the issues you referred to, but I have seen instances of members acting ungrateful in the ROM/customization community, and it upsets me every time. The developers are creating all this and giving it to the users for free. There's no reason for complaints. If I don't like something, I simply don't use it. I still appreciate someone took the time to give me another option. If that wasn't your experience I apologize on behalf of everyone involved. Much thanks for what you did contribute before you were convinced otherwise.
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@venumx
Thanks for the link!
@mysteryemotionz
I'm very sorry you had a poor experience. My quick search didn't find the issues you referred to, but I have seen instances of members acting ungrateful in the ROM/customization community, and it upsets me every time. The developers are creating all this and giving it to the users for free. There's no reason for complaints. If I don't like something, I simply don't use it. I still appreciate someone took the time to give me another option. If that wasn't your experience I apologize on behalf of everyone involved. Much thanks for what you did contribute before you were convinced otherwise.
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look in my themes thread. also look in the baked snack thread where it all started.
not everyone is like you and expect everything for free. use devolpers do this has a hobby and dont ask for a dime. yes we have donation links but we dont force you to donate to use are product. ive s[ent well over 30 hours alone working on my theme and thats with the help i recived from others. why should i continue my work if people are going to be un gratefull about it
does look pretty
My name is Ryan and I want to make a rom or app for android. I have a friend who is a pro at photoshop so I think he can help me, my brother is a website designer I know the can help me Mae the help forum or whatever. Now for me Im the position of making the rom or app and I need to know where to start. How to dev a rom. How to dev an app.
I know I need eclipse and the android sdk's to make an app.
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ourtut said:
My name is Ryan and I want to make a rom or app for android. I have a friend who is a pro at photoshop so I think he can help me, my brother is a website designer I know the can help me Mae the help forum or whatever. Now for me Im the position of making the rom or app and I need to know where to start. How to dev a rom. How to dev an app.
I know I need eclipse and the android sdk's to make an app.
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Go to the forum home page and click on android development. Look at the stickies. They will help you get started.
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There are many tutorials within these forums that explain what I believe your are trying to do. Posting a question in this sub-forum is kind of rude. I would suggest doing lots of searching and reading. When you have a general idea of what you are doing, asking intelligent questions to a developer you like and learning from them.
travlincablguy said:
There are many tutorials within these forums that explain what I believe your are trying to do. Posting a question in this sub-forum is kind of rude. I would suggest doing lots of searching and reading. When you have a general idea of what you are doing, asking intelligent questions to a developer you like and learning from them.
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Not rude just slightly inexperienced, but that's fine, at least this is relatively developement related. Alot better then some questions that get asked here.
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Moved to Q&A.
Making a ROM and making an app are two totally different things. First you need to decide what you actually want to accomplish. Then read up as much as you can and ask more specific questions.
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Not rude just slightly inexperienced, but that's fine, at least this is relatively developement related. Alot better then some questions that get asked here.
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You are right about "better than some", but I have looked into developing and it is very intricate process. I would do more if I wasn't in school at night and with my very young son during the days. Just asking someone to outline the process in a forum seems crazy. How hard is it to research the subject before asking detailed questions?
I've been a "watcher" too long in this community. It's time to contribute back what I can.
I have a server doing nothing, and I'd love to waste as much bandwidth as I can.
If you're a developer for a ROM, and you'd like to have PHP, FTP, perl, sql, etc support, please reply to this thread or message me directly, and I'd be more than happy to get things set up for you ASAP. This is a new device, with a fantastic development community, and I think every developer deserves a chance for success. An email address, along with a website will help accomplish this for determined individuals. I don't plan on ever letting go of the domain names, or the server that I have.
Cheers you guys.
P.S. > Also, if someone wouldn't mind helping keep this thread active by posting articles or links to publishers with books available to teach me how to develop, that would be fantastic. I know this fits a little closer with "General", but its important, I think, that developers get involved in this, because of the huge possibility of misinformation.
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Great idea.
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Here's a good article to get started, from the man himself
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667298
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Good idea +1
I was really, really hoping this thread wasnt going to be moved to general, because now it is probably never going to be read by the developers. If by any chance you know someone who is developing roms for the sgsii, or how to get ahold of people who are, i would love to spearhead this project and get their hosting up asap. I would love to have a website for your rom, a central hub for tools, resources, and links, but i dont have any of the web development knowledge or background to even know what cms software would work best. Ive installed hundreds of vbulletin boards back in the day (when pirating vbulletin and ipb was fun). I know how to use cpanel very well, how to modify apache and php settings, and how to setup mysql, but i guess ive been out of the loop too long. Help me out guys. Lets get a website going for these awesome developers.
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Awesome +1
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Okay, perhaps a new approach. Would someone like to try and help me get a website going with all the important files for the 989? (ODiN, radios, stock roms, drivers, etc).
cellularticulate said:
Okay, perhaps a new approach. Would someone like to try and help me get a website going with all the important files for the 989? (ODiN, radios, stock roms, drivers, etc).
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If your looking for someone to gather and upload and get descriptions and such I would be happy to. If your looking more for someone to make zips and such that is a little out of my league.
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xsteven77x said:
If your looking for someone to gather and upload and get descriptions and such I would be happy to. If your looking more for someone to make zips and such that is a little out of my league.
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I think I'm going to need to install some sort of software on my server to host the downloads. Then the guides and descriptions all fall into place. I'm just not sure. I think it'd be a good idea.
I suggest posting on skyrockets (I727 sister device nearly identical) forum as well, in order to really stir interest...
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cellularticulate said:
I was really, really hoping this thread wasnt going to be moved to general,
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you might have not noticed, but the DEVs do read the General forum as well
in fact we keep asking people to keep the comments on General, unless they are of development value, then they should reply back to the DEV topic
but as usual newbies never listen
Figured I'd start a general discussion thread about the petition to Acer and also about raising the bounty to interest more devs.
We can discuss these things in here rather than polluting other threads
Will be donating what I can the beginning of Feb.
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willing to donate as well
Awesome! Thanks guys!
I don't expect we'll get thousands but anything will help. If we can even raise enough for one device to get it to a dev, that would be awesome!
On another note, we seem to be doing well with the petition so far! Tell your friends, share on Facebook, make sure you "like" it which makes it go viral in other people's feeds etc!
I signed the petition already, but I don't know how much a dev can do to specifically unlocking a bootloader. I understand the bootloader is encrypted, which means that unless we have they key we won't be able to boot our own custom roms flashed through recovery. Although I have been following on my Droid3 forums about how devs have created some workaround solutions for using the stock bootloader and somehow getting around it, although I believe it is more complicated than that. The user Hashcode knows a lot about that sort of stuff on the motorola droid platforms. I'm not sure how much he can help but it might be a good starting point?
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I gotta get in front of a real computer so I can donate a few bucks.
Can somebody reach out to Hashcode, he might be willing to help out.
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Can somebody reach out to Hashcode, he might be willing to help out.
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Done! PM'd him.