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Im new to android and thought it would be fun to develop an app that goes out and checks woot.com. The idea I came up with is for the app to be a widget that refresh woot.com once a day and displays a picture of the item and price. If the widget is clicked on it would open the browser to woot.com. In theory this seems like it would be easy but Im having trouble figuring out where to begin. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Tim

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You can't start ask a question as vague as that and expect a reasonable answer :P Look around for "Where to start" questions, read through the Android Developer's website (in particular the Dev Guide and Resources section which contains tutorials), and then start with something simple. For example, you could look at this sample widget from the Android Dev site, which explains how to make a Word of the Day widget connecting to Wikipedia, but it probably won't make much sense until you've done a lot of work on the basics.

Steve H
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Alright thanks for your response. Ive read some stuff on the Android Dev site and I think I need to start on some more basic stuff. Anyone know of any good guides that start very basic and slowly advance.

Thanks

tim
This site doesn't work like a normal forum - you should edit your question or leave comments on replies rather than leaving an 'answer' like this. Anyway - you don't get much more basic than the `Hello World` tutorials on the official site http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html. Once you've done all those (and all the Views ones), google around for other tutorials and play around.
Steve H
Ok thanks Steve. I'm new to this site. Any good books that you could recommend?
tim