Here’s the skivvy on the review. Since, I made the commitment to read this Droid book, I’m going to provide review notes for each hour of the book immediately after I complete that section of the book. In theory you’ll see 24 separate posts over the next few days containing my personal notes on my experience with the book.

Hour 4 Review Notes

This hour is about Managing Application Resources… first thought is graphics and files.

Darcey and Conder are lumping Strings, colors and layout files as resources… I’m down with that.

Huh?  Resource filenames must be lowercase and no dashes… thought that died with the fax machine.  Grrrr we still have those in the insurance department.  Welcome, your time travel experience starts with a visit to 1994.

Good muggle-esque quote:  “Displaying an application correctly on a handset, rather than the Eclipse layout editor, should always be a  developer’s primary objective.”

Creating a bunch of .xml resource files in the exercises…not glamorous, but essential

Final exercise was to place an image into the layout… used one of my blacksmith and anvil shots from my Mount Vernon trip a few months ago.

Hour 4 took about 1:10 to complete cause I got lost in tweeting about the experience and playing with more properties than listed in the book!