Android Essentials (Books for Professionals by Professionals)
Chris Haseman

£15.99

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Having got my android phone I decided I'd like to be able to program it, the instructions on the Google code site were great - especially as they provide an Eclipse plugin, and there's only one phone version so far - making the directions very targeted.

Then I looked on my safari bookshelf  and found this book.

It's well written, assumes you already know Java and just want to get going quickly on Android, and has downloadable sample code - so far so good.

Test Driven Development (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Kent Beck

£20.04

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The premise of this book is to design organically (No grand plans).

Programming is reduced to the sequence

• write a test
• write code that passes the test
• clean up that code (remove any duplication)

Much of the book is about getting into and keeping a good programming mindset - one nice tip is to always leave a failing test at the end of the day (this give you something concrete to start on the next day).

This book has changed the way I work (a bit).