Announcing AndBook - Learning Android From Scratch!

plusminus · Last edited by plusminus on Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:43 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello Community,

today I announce andbook!, which is a document that shows how to start coding for Android without having any Android-knowledge before. This is the cover:

The book is thought to be a summation of easy to follow tutorials, which can be found here on anddev.org (and on other pages).

The only problem is: I've got no time to complete it. Crying or Very sad

So this is my idea. If someone could advise me in licensing-issues I would make this a kind of open-document, what means, that it would become a community-product, paying respect to all the contributors. (Note: It would have become free anyway)

So if you want to have a look into what has been done so far. (Note: That version of the document was never meant to be publicized!)

Download andbook! (1,6MB): Damn early preview...

The content was a.) self-written or b.) taken from Google
Wink

Not the font is big, but it was written for A5-Paper (common-book-size)

Let me know, whether you want to contribute in any way. (Even if you want to take the "chief-writer"-role!) Smile

/plusminus for anddev.org

kiran · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:54 am Post subject:

Great work plusminus!!!! Smile

cabernet1976 · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:21 am Post subject:

So cool

Thanks, plusminus.

swiftrhett · Freshman Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 4

plusminus for president Very Happy

wataru · Junior Developer Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 11

I haven't read the whole thing yet but
at a quick glance, it looks really good!!!
I like your writing style with lots of screenshots Smile

I'm amazed how much you are contributing to
Android society - I bet without this site many people
have no clue where to start.

Thank you for your hard work plusminus!

franw · Freshman Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 5 Location: NewYork

i almost wanted to give up Crying or Very sad

but finally a cohesive picture that makes sense!
thanks!!! Very Happy

your site is great!!! you are the man!!

Babau · Freshman Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 2

re: Licensing you could do a lot worse than a creative commons license. A creative commons attribution license would fit what you've asked for. You could also tack on non-commercial and share-alike provisions if you like.

More info here:

http://creativecommons.org/about/license/

tum0rc0re · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:06 am Post subject:

Cool, i like this mini-guide Smile

sasuke · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:02 pm Post subject:

Great!!!

Awesome plusminus!! Shocked

izamryan · Junior Developer Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 17

I concur with Babau.

A Creative Commons license is definately one to use.

Check these out:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Comics

is a great little graphical explanation of the process,

http://creativecommons.org/license/

is a web-app thing to choose the right license.

I concur with Babau - maybe the one you want is the CC by-nc-sa (Attribution, Non-commercial and Share-Alike). The Share-alike provision is SORT OF similar to the GPL, in that any derivative works must also be under the same Share-alike. The Non-Commercial provision guarantees that people can't reprint your work and sell it on a commercial basis, without your permission 1st.

plusminus · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much guys Exclamation

So I chose

.

What is :

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License

Isn't there also a 3.0 Version Confused

that "wizard" put out the 2.0 version... shall I adapt Question

Best Regards,
plusminus

Babau · Freshman Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 2

Version 3.0 of the license hasn't yet been ported to the German legal system, which is why the wizard suggested version 2.0.

There's information about the German jurisdiction of Creative Commons here:

http://de.creativecommons.org/

But as I don't speak German I'm a little hampered as to what I can tell you about it. It looks like the porting process is well advanced, however.

There's a brief run-down on the differences between 2.0 and 3.0 here:

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7249

Short Answer:

You should be fine with the German version of 2.0. There's not enough amazing stuff in 3.0 to warrant using the generic version over the German one. You can always update to the German 3.0 when it's out if you feel a pressing need to.

gustavo · Freshman Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

Great job man!

I was in Munich in January. Wich city are you from?

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Gustavo Ávila

izamryan · Junior Developer Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 17

How about putting the text into a Wiki, or a similar CMS. Once it's in a CMS I think we can use some tools to PDF-fiy it to convert it to a book.

That might make it easier to collaborate Cool

code · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:08 am Post subject:

Good Job plusminus Smile

wish all the best for you man

Regards,
code