Gourmet Java technology for Android applications

Posted by solrac on Jul 20, 2010 5:35 AM EDT
IBM/developerWorks; By Michael Galpin
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This article covers some of the Android SDK tools for dealing with tricky situations. To develop Android applications, you will need the latest Android SDK which requires a Java Development Kit (JDK). I used Android 2.2 and JDK 1.6.0_17 (see Resources for links to these tools). It is not required that you have a physical device; all of the code in this article will run fine on the Android emulator that comes with the SDK. You should be familiar with Android programming as this article will not cover basic Android development, but you can probably follow along if you have knowledge of the Java programming language.

Java language is the tool of choice for Android developers. The Android runtime uses its own virtual machine, Dalvik, which is not the usual Java virtual machine that most Java developers are used to. In this article you will learn advanced Java features and how they are implemented on Android. This includes features such as concurrency, networking, and database access.

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