Android Java course week two

Notes from this week’s course and related Android news and information:

• Week 2 of O'Reilly #AndroidJava class, setting up Twitter app via http://bit.ly/9Artag #
• Follow along with the course discussion in Twitter via Tweetchat room at http://bit.ly/9xzgcC #
• Source code for course examples http://bit.ly/beilOu #
• Instructor is using Android 2.1 SDK in Eclipse, with source available from git http://bit.ly/dbpLYT #
• Note that you need to create 'raw' dir, containing 'oauth.properties', containing Twitter OAuth consumer keys as two properties #
• Using Twitter4J http://bit.ly/bupwji #
• O'Reilly Training page summarizing the contents of each week's course session http://oreil.ly/9Lxv0R #
• Note that the 'raw' dir you create needs to be in the existing 'res' resources dir in each example Eclipse project #
• eGit plugin enables Eclipse to easily pull down code from git http://bit.ly/9Q2s5U #
• Fundamentals of Android applications http://bit.ly/9dC9Gj (aka Android 101 for newbies) #
• Android developer channel on Youtube http://bit.ly/9y9gUv #
• Android session slides and videos will post to the #googleio #io2010 site http://bit.ly/9FVXYq #
• Will Android 2.2 speed gains shrink the feature phone market? http://bit.ly/dakBH0 from @venturebeat #
• Android gets Facebook Graph API before iPhone http://bit.ly/936viv #
• Android developer videos http://bit.ly/cfh6mL including a three part “Androidology” overview series from the Android team #