Oreilly forums[http://forums.oreilly.com/category/90/Developing-Android-Applications/] & links to other resources

[ashish makani]

Tony mentioned the OReilly forums again yesterday, so thought will share the link here

http://forums.oreilly.com/category/90/Developing-Android-Applications/


Now that the workshop is over, i think this is a good place to ask get clarifications,answers to queries, etc
Hopefully OReilly is going to keep the forums, for atleast for a little while.

Some other resources i googled, just now :

1.from [http://developer.android.com/resources/community-groups.html]
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2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android

3. Q.s about Android source code itself
http://source.android.com/discuss

4. Info about Dalvik VM & 'repo'( a tool developed by Google, to access across-network git repositories)
http://source.android.com/documentation

5. IRC
from [http://developer.android.com/resources/community-more.html]

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  /msg nickserv identify <password>
  /join #android-dev

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Best,
ashish