[android-developers] Re: single device development scenario with questions

rh,

In order to make a calendar app you should need to even have to worry about the source for the Android OS.  What you will need is the Android SDK which you can get at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html,  You'll want to look towards the bottom of the page under download for other platforms - SDK Tools only.  You will also need a copy of JAVA 1.6.

I would recommend you take a look at this Android development workflow explanation on the Developer.Android.Com site.  It should help explain the process of building an app (http://developer.android.com/tools/workflow/index.html).  There are also some tutorials on the site.  They are for the Eclipse IDE however. While it is possible to build an Android app without an IDE it will be very very difficult to do.  This is especially true for the layouts of your calendar app and if you are new to Android development.  In short not using an IDE will dramatically lengthen the amount of time development takes because of debugging, layout, etc...  That being said it can be done.  However, I wouldn't recommend it.   

Finally, as for building it for your phone only the process is virtually identical if you build it for your device only or many.  About the only difference is you don't have to worry about testing it on other devices and won't have to upload to the Playstore.

Hope this helps,
George

On Monday, April 15, 2013 3:17:34 PM UTC-4, rh wrote:

Hello,
I want to pose this as a scenario since the information I've looked at
is fragmented and ambiguous and vague.  (that's hard to do all those)
I've watched videos and read READMEs and docs/*, etc. I've visited
forums and read mail lists. So I'm not even sure what question to
ask and that's my reason for posing a scenario.

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