Books I've chosen, next steps

Ok, so I've picked out a few Android books to read:

• Android Programming Tutorials by Mark L. Murphy (meant for Android 3.0!)
• Professional Android 2 Development by Reto Meier

I was considering having this blog talk about each chapter as I read them and test them out, but that would probably be a horribly boring blog and nobody would want to read it.  So instead, I'm going to talk more about game design decisions I'm making for my unnamed bomberman-style game.

Can't wait to get started.

Let's design a game!

In a way, I'm kind of lucky that I'm not sure how to program with Android yet.  Because of that, I can design my game while reading a couple of books on Android programming, and I won't have my program tainted by my desire to just jump in and get coding.  Hopefully this will result in a better game.

Ok, so first thing's first - on the agenda for the rest of today I'm going to get some books and set up Eclipse with the Android 3 SDK.  My main computer is down right now, so I'm going to take some notes while doing the install just in case.  Hopefully I'll just be able to use a guide somewhere on the internet to help me out.

I've done an install before, but that was a year and a half ago, and I can see from the Android development site that a lot has changed.  Oh well, here goes nothing!