Android Tutorials or book recommendations?

Question

Hi

I want to an Android application(a port from a windows mobile phone) but I need to learn a couple things

1. How to program for different screen sizes and resolutions (so my controls get bigger smaller or whatever)
2. How to dynamically create controls such labels and checkboxes ( and checkbox listeners)
3. How to create a menu
4. How to create a context menu( a menu when you right click on the screen it pops up)

5. how to program for landscape and portrait mode

   How to consume a webservice

Most of what I am after is mostly the display aspect as all my logic is on a webservice so I could port all my stuff to different phones faster.

So I am looking for tutorials or a book to get me up to speed to do these things

Answer 1

Best resources are developer guide and CommonsWare.

Answer 2

If you are looking for a book Professional Android 2 Application Development by Reto Meier is excellent and has sample code available for all the examples. He hits on all your points.

Answer 3

I have the Pragmatic Programmers' Hello, Android and I've gotten a lot of good out of it. It has a good overview of the Android application lifecycle and a nice long walkthrough of an example application that ladles out the useful/interesting bits of Android development as it goes.