How Much experience would someone need to become an Android App Developer

[CrazYmonkeY159]

My advice to people with some programming experience that would like to get into Android development is to get to know and love Linux.

I feel, and this is just my personal opinion: but if you know how to compile and install the kernel, know what modules are and how to modprobe and assuming you have some general programming knowledge: picking up Android is very straightforward.

If you start from scratch, there is quite a hectic learning curve involved in certain aspects of the technology. You can avoid it for a while, but at some stage you will need to understand the basic framework underlying the Android framework.

If you don't know that Android is based on Linux: You will need to learn A LOT very quickly.

This is true if youre not planning on coding for the linux kernel of android (ie in C++ (it can be done and its legal)) with Android you're really shielded from all the very "characteristically UNIX-ey" features of linux

besides games: theres no reason to go under the dalvik layer of abstraction, just learn Java and some XML and Web technologies to be an efficient Android dev. I have very limeted expirience with Android development so if im completely wrong forgive me, I have only developed for Android under a windoze environment aswell.

 

[bin3]

This is true if youre not planning on coding for the linux kernel of android (ie in C++ (it can be done and its legal)) with Android you're really shielded from all the very "characteristically UNIX-ey" features of linux

besides games: theres no reason to go under the dalvik layer of abstraction, just learn Java and some XML and Web technologies to be an efficient Android dev. I have very limeted expirience with Android development so if im completely wrong forgive me, I have only developed for Android under a windoze environment aswell.

I don't disagree.

If you want to write /cross-platform/ type applications, i.e. stuff that works on Android / IPhone / Win Mobile, then yes: basic programming skills then learn the framework required.

But if you want to use the device for anything more / anything else, you do need to understand the platform it runs on. In Android's case, this is Linux.