Show HN: Beginning Android for iOS Developers

Hey HN, I wrote a 9-part series on how starting Android from the perspective of an iOS developer.<p>tl;dr I walk you through how I ported one of my iOS apps. There are UIKit references and such, but anyone can pick this up and learn something (I cover parsing JSON from the file system, serializing objects, HTTP requests...yknow, all the useful stuff).<p>I've never written anything of this scale, so criticisms are welcome!

If you don't have the time to rewrite your app manually, there is another way: it's possible to recompile an iOS app to run natively on Android using the NDK. This is tricky to set up, but I can do it for you: <a href="http://www.apportable.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.apportable.com</a>

How do we "release" objects...? Just kidding, awesome tutorial, I was looking for something like this, thanks.

light but still a very good article. it would be nice to have something the other way :-) Android to iOS

Joining the choir, this is fantastic. I've been writing Android apps for a year, and still got several useful pointers out of it.

Does anyone know of anything in reverse (iOS for Android developers)?

Love this! The biggest learning curve for me is the lack of a decent layout editor. I know I'm supposed to be teh hardcorez, but Interface Builder is really nice for at least getting your items to line up right.

Brilliant -- I've built a couple of Android apps so far, and found that poring through the SDK, while valuable, is somewhat a steep curve to those of us who don't enjoy Java.<p>Seeing the language documented one function at a time also loses out on how the components interact, design patterns that make sense, and other considerations that I am certain this will help with.<p>Thank you for sharing.

How did you like developing for Android vs iOS?

Most Android tutorials are written by Android/Java veterans, so I used to find them hard to follow. This one is great because it's written by a (former) beginner, for beginners. Nice work!

Thanks for sharing. The Android sdk samples dont actually include any parsing/reading data from file examples, so this is useful even for non-iOS devs.

It feels trite to reiterate so many other commenters but I really liked your take on Android development and would like to see more.

I'm a "veteran" iOS/Cocoa developer who has just started his first Android project a few days ago. Coincidence? :)