App Idea, newbie to code. Point me to any useful documentation?

hare05

I'm still fairly untested as a programmer, but I figure although there's a lot in here for a first project, it should be quite doable. I've only done small little calculators / very basic stuff so far, and I've never touched APIs / network stuff.

I just need a little help sorting through documentation on both Android and VLC. If anyone here has done something similar to any of the above points and knows a good place to start, please give me as many links as you can.

Here's the basic idea of what I intend to do:

The best remote style app I've seen is Gmote, but there are a number of things I think could be done better and I see no reason to wait for the dev to implement all my ideas when a few months of my work could give me what I want.

I want to make a media remote / streaming app that does the following, connecting to VLC player:

• Playlist creation / selection.
• Play Video & audio on PC
• Stream video or audio to phone
• Main new idea / feature: Stream just the audio while playing the video on the main screen.
  • Turns the phone into a wireless headset. (Good for watching action movies at night, in bed, when everyone else is asleep and you don't have access to a laptop or wireless headphones.)
  • May involve streaming from Stereo Mix if I can't isolate the audio from VLC directly.
  • Might be latency problems so I may also need to provide controls for VLC's audio delay tools.
• Touch screen as touch pad for controlling mouse, etc. Similar again to Gmote.
• Connectivity by both wifi or bluetooth.
• Playlist creation / selection.

Thanks!

Kavrocks

If you don't already know Java then learn it first. I don't have any resources for that other than Java Documentation and Stackoverflow Java Questions.

Next you should take a look at the Android Design Guidelines there's no reason why an Android app shouldn't look and feel great these days.

Then the Android Developer Guide and Stackoverflow Android Questions. Another resource I found very good for people just getting started is the Android Bootcamp Series but its definitely not a replacement for reading the Android Developer Guide more just to show you how easy it is to get started.

Oh and last but not least the Android Source Code.

hare05

Thanks, this is perfect.