Android Essentials (Books for Professionals by Professionals)
Chris Haseman

£15.99

buy from amazon

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.

But - even though it was only published last summer - 6 months later the android API has been through several revisions.

Sadly this book is already out of date.

The perils of targeting such a new technology I suppose.

Well I guess I'll go back to http://code.google.com/android/intro

It's not as much fun to read - but hopefully it's up to date!