Android Introduction for a Java Developer?

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What are good books, online tutorial and courses these days to learn Android programming for somebody who knows Java?

Android is a framework like any other big one, so if you have existing experience navigating other big frameworks, you should mentally feel at ease starting directly with google's documents and bypassing traditional tutorials/courses, which will slow you down with their slow pace and basics you already may know (like some patterns that appear everywhere): https://developer.android.com/guide

Everything is well explained, examples galore. Quite impressed with the documentation, to be honest.

A friend asked me this question. I personally would go to documentation directly indeed. But I thought that maybe there something that this approach would miss.

Thanks for confirming my intuition!

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