hello, Rajeef!

how can I help you today?

Hello Mark. Excited to be here. I joined the tribe a few hours back.

Are you open to take non-Android related questions ?

um, well, not really

this is an Android developer support chat

if your questions are on the process of cheese-making, I can't really help you :-)

Yes Mark. I understand.:) I meant not specifically code related. What I'm struggling with right now is going about deciding what to pickup next to learn in Android

I've been learning and doing projects in Android for about an year.

oh, well, that sounds like an Android-related question

But still I feel overwhelmed with the amount of things that I still need to learn.

well, Android is vast

And after seeing the 3000+ pages of the book, you can imagine the panic attack :/

oh, don't worry -- there's at least 1,000 more pages where those came from :-)

:D

while Android's scope isn't quite to the level of a Windows, it is still pretty darn big

once you have the fundamentals down, from there, it's mostly a matter of addressing the problems at hand for whatever you're working on

And how do you lock down these fundamentals ?

read the first ~800 pages of the book :-)

I mean, everytime I see something like IntentSerivce or Event bus etc, I feel I should be knowing that too.

Ok that helps. Atleast I have a target now !!

well, I'm a bit surprised you made it through a year without needing an IntentService

Yes. Not yet. Been picking up things, which were only needed for the projects I was working on.

event buses are increasingly popular, but they're not really part of what I'd consider Google's mainstream set of APIs -- it's more what Java experts have bringing into the Android world

Oh. That's good to know.

Great. I won't take up more of your time. I just dropped in for the first office hour, get a perspective on learning path (thanks to your 800 pages tip). Hopefully, next time I'll be around with some code to crack.

Thanks Mark.

you're very welcome