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With the influx of new developers, itmust seemotnew android Developers that they are lost. Hopefuly this resoruce list should provide some resources to use to becom un-lost.

Developer Sites

Well obviously the first resource is developer webistes and thoe are:

Dev Area of Android.com

Google’s Android Design Site

Android Patterns

Android UI Patterns

MAndroidPattrns

Stackoverflow’s Android Developer Forums

Tools

Google has focused their development effforts not only on the SDK itself and the emulator but also the IDE plugin as well:

Android SDK and NDK

Google’s Eclipse ADT plugin

Eclipse IDE

Motorola Mobility Dev IDE based on Eclipse

Code repos and Examples

So you may have went through the code samples in the Android SDK and noticed that not all areas are up-to-date. Obviously, the popular developer book authors keep their code examples up-to-date so lets list them:

Mark Murphy CommonsGuy CommonsWare git repos

Marakana’s git repos

Vanevery’s Apress Android Media Pro git repo

Sidelabs’ Apress Pro Android Web Apps git repo

RaghvaSood’s Apress Pro Android Augmented Reality git repo

Android inPractice repo at GoogleCode

Unlocking Android Manning code repo at GoogleCode

Android in Action Manning’s code repo at GoogleCode

Added Value Code repos

Google has stated that they are working on codig kits to ease development and these are expected to be added to the additional libraries in the android SDK. Until those are released you might find these helpful in bootstrapping your android application development:

ActionBarSherlock

NineOldAndroids

AndroidViewPagerIndicator

Hansel and Gretel

Pakerfeldt’s Android Viewflow

Johnnilssen’s AndroidPullTorefreshWidget

Updates

This article will be updated with more tools and code reps and sites so you might want to bookmark it.