This post is an introduction to Android app development for beginners. How to get setup and start your first Android project, and where to go from there!

Video tutorials and step-by-step projects are very helpful when you want to learn how to do a specific task in your app, or if you need to learn how to use a new API.

For more on that, check out our guide to Android development for beginners. For the purposes of this Java tutorial, it may be easier to write your code directly into a Java compiler app.

However, as detailed by the developer, the app now works with the iPhone as well. This means that users can have all the same Python tutorials available on the iPad right from their pockets.

The accelerometer is a hardware sensor used to detect a shake motion. William Francis shares the accelerometer code that he uses in his Android apps.

A Linux terminal app for native Android development? Here's why I'm bullish Although Android already has a sandboxed Linux terminal available, this Google model will be geared toward developers.