Matt Cutts: Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04

I'm giving Titanium a go: http://www.appcelerator.com/ . It's basically a wrapper for Webkit, so you write in HTML and JS (with extensions) and can also include Pyhton, Ruby, and PHP. Titanium then compiles your wares to Windows, OSX, Android, and iPhone.

Very neat.

But aren't the apps tied to appcelerator.com for distribution?

This is not only a good tutorial on getting started with your environment, but has some really good resources for getting started with actually building apps or getting them on your device :)

Now we just need someone to come along and teach us web hackers how to go from developing in a MVC php/python/ruby/etc.. methodology to building java apps. I'm great with a *nix system so getting the SDK running on my Mac was no problem, but building Java apps... I'm clueless in that department!

Why not just make some .deb's and repository instead, like here: http://www.newlc.com/en/deb-packages-android-sdk-bleeding-ed... ?

The only thing I unlike more than installation itself is installation instruction.