Android Notes: System overview

So, you’ve got the SDK running, and have a strange confusion about just what exactly is going on. By now you’ve hopefully overcome the culture shock and a lack of a main() function.

So… what can this thing do? What is an ‘Activity’? What is a ‘Service’? The phone just killed my app because the user pressed the home button… what’s going on?

Grab a cup of tea and watch the following videos, they’ll help. I’ll embed the first one, but link to the others. You’ll also find the Application Fundamentals part of the development guide useful, specifically the activity lifecycle.

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I'm just a person who likes writing software in their spare time. I'm not an "indie games developer" and am not trying to escape my day job and live in the happy world of games dev. I'm more like one of those people that used to write games in their spare time in the 80s. My stuff would be PD or Shareware if this were the 80s or 90s. It's good to comment on the posts in here :)