Figuring out how to program Android phones

Day 584 of 1000

Yesterday I wrote about a series I plan to write on how Christian learned to program during homeschool.  My buddy, Conrad wrote a comment about how he was interested in programming Android phones.  That very same day, another friend and I went to lunch to talk about a little Android programming project.  I have always used Eclipse to program Java in the past, but my friend pointed me to about a free, open source IDE for Java called Intellij IDEA Community.  I downloaded it, installed it, and had my first application up and running in an emulator in short order.  I will see how long it takes me to figure out how to get it running on my Samsung S III.  I think I am going to move over to that environment for awhile to see what I think.  My plan is to port BleAx to a cell phone and this might help me kill two birds with one stone.