AndroidJavaProgramming.com

This site is a gathering of many of the resources that I used, or, am still using to learn android java.

You can find a lot of useful links to eBook torrents in my Programming Links.

Feel free to create an account an use the forum to keep in touch. If I can help, I will.

I use Ubuntu/Linux for development. But may be able to help with Windows installs.

Here are the basic steps to get a hello world application

Install the latest version of the Java JDK.. I use JDK 6 Update 25. JDK 7 seems to be available, but, I haven't personally used it yet.

Install the Latest Version of Eclipse IDE for Java Development, includes debugger, etc..

Eclipse is pretty easy to install.. just create a folder called c:\eclipse then unzip the latest eclipse zip into it.. Find the Main eclipse.exe and create a shortcut to it. The installation doesn't rely on any windows controls, so, it doesn't really need to be 'installed'..

Install the latest version of Android SDK. Be sure install in directory other than C:\Program Files.. it doesn't always like the space in the dir name. Use something like C:\androidsdk\

Android SDK Installation Instructions.

Each app above has explicit instructions to install and use along the way. It takes a little bit of messing around with if your not exactly sure what's going on, but, it does all seem to work very well after set up properly.