Develop Mobile Web Applications On Your Android Device, with upcoming NetBeans IDE 7.4

It's a blog post from Oracle NetBeans Web Client, introduces an exciting new feature in the upcoming NetBeans IDE 7.4. Namely, JavaScript debugging and visual CSS editing on Android devices.

With this feature, you can develop mobile web applications on real Android device, with Netbeans IDE 7.4 and Android SDK.

This support will be included in NetBeans IDE 7.4, which will be released later in 2013. However, you can already try this out now in a recent nightly build of NetBeans 7.4.

https://blogs.oracle.com/netbeanswebclient/entry/develop_mobile_web_applications_on

LAIA - Learn Android In Android

LAIA or Learn Android In Android is a reference app for learning the basics of Android Development.

Link: https://github.com/SferaDev/LAIA

Free online eBook: Kindle Fire Development Essentials

Techotopia provide a online ebook, Kindle Fire Development Essentials, for FREE.

The Kindle Fire is the latest addition to Amazon.com’s Kindle family of devices. Unlike previous Kindle models, however, the Kindle Fire is the first device from Amazon to move beyond ebook reading and provide a full tablet experience with a multitouch color screen and the ability to watch movies, read books and magazines, play music and install applications from the Amazon App Store. This book will cover the development of applications for the Kindle Fire.

Table of Contents

• An Overview and History of the Kindle Fire
• Setting Up a Kindle Fire Android Development Environment
• Creating a Kindle Fire Android Virtual Device (AVD)
• Creating an Example Kindle Fire Android Application
• Testing Android Applications on a Physical Kindle Fire Device
• An Overview of the Kindle Fire Android Architecture
• The Anatomy of an Android Application
• Understanding Android Application and Activity Lifecycles
• Handling Android Activity State Changes
• Android Activity State Changes – An Example Application
• Saving and Restoring the User Interface State of an Android Activity
• Understanding Android Views, View Groups and Layouts
• Designing an Android User Interface using the Graphical Layout Tool
• Creating an Android User Interface in Java Code
• An Overview and Example of Android Event Handling
• Android Touch and Multi-touch Event Handling
• Android Gesture and Pinch Recognition on the Kindle Fire
• An Overview of Android Intents
• Android Explicit Intents – A Worked Example
• Android Implicit Intents – A Worked Example
• Android Broadcast Intents and Broadcast Receivers
• A Basic Overview of Android Threads and Thread handlers
• An Overview of Android Started and Bound Services
• Implementing an Android Started Service – A Worked Example
• Android Local Bound Services – A Worked Example
• Android Remote Bound Services – A Worked Example

Read Kindle Fire Development Essentials online.

Mozilla's Boot to Gecko Mobile Operating System

Mozilla tells us that all Android users (with unlocked bootloaders) will be able to install the operating system onto their phones. The video show a quick demo of Boot to Gecko on a Galaxy S II, which included peeks at the dialer, messaging system, system preferences.

Crowd-Sourced Android CookBook

The O'Reilly Android Cookbook is a crowd-sourced reference to all aspects of developing successful Android applications. It is not an application to manage your food recipes under Android! You can view the recipes online, and also contribute recipes, comment on them.

Visit: http://androidcookbook.com/home.seam

 ~ We are building a community-written web site which has also been used to create an O'Reilly Cookbook, both about how to build great Android applications. It is full of how-to information along with code snippets that illustrate the ideas presented. It features both how-to's that overlap with the official documentation, and material that goes beyond this to be more tutorial, more in-depth, or explaining "lessons from the trenches": what actually works to get the application functioning well. Unlike most books written by one, two or a few individuals, this one has input from dozens of contributors, who were all able to view and comment on each others' recipes before the book was published. The published version(s) include printed books, eBooks, and other uses. And long after the book was first published in 2012, this site will continue to exist - with a larger collection of recipes than will fit in the published book - and serve as an Android developer resource site long after. ~

FREE eBook download: Android Programming

Download eBook Android Programming for FREE: http://andbook.anddev.org/

Opera Mobile for Android now support HTML5 Camera

What's in updated version (12.0) of Opera Mobile web browser for Android:

1. Added:
2. Support for more than 9 speed dials
3. WebGL support
4. HTML5 Camera (Android 2.1+)
5. HTML5 Device Orientation
6. HTML5 parser (Ragnarök)
7. Android Beam support (NFC)
8. Added Flash support on Android 4.0.3
9. RTL text support in UI
10. Turkish translation
11. Improved:
12. Keyboard support
13. Scrolling on high pixel devices (Galaxy Nexus)
14. Closing of tabs
15. SSL connection speed
16. Tab session restore
17. Find in page UI
18. Upgraded:
19. Presto core (2.10.254)

Android Developer Hangouts on every Wednesday at 2pm Pacific Time

Google have launched Android Developers on Google+.

Also, Android Developer Hangouts have been a great way to answer questions from developers around the world. It will be broadcasted On Air Office Hours using Google+ Hangouts every Wednesday at 2pm Pacific Time (10pm UTS). Googel engineers do weekly technical Q&A (Wednesday's at 2pm PT (10p GMT), but also do hold developer interviews, live app "surgeries", and more focussed Q&A around topics like game development and UI design.

Add Android Developers on Google+ to your circles

Now have a Google+ page for +Android Developers. Google's Android engineers will use it to host Hangouts for developers, talk about the latest releases, development and design tips, and much more.

Add +Android Developers to your circles!