Android Simple application development question
<p>New to the group and new to Android development. At our site we are starting to look into Android application development and as I have the most programming background here I have been tasked with learning to develop on Android.</p>

<p>My programming background includes RPG and CL, (AS/400), Pick DataBasic, Paradox ObjectPal, Basic in a variety of flavors, (of course), a little C and C++, Comal, a little dabbling in Visual Basic and AutoIt scripting language. I have worked a lot in Oracle, Informix and some MS-SQL.</p>

<p>I have installed and configured Eclipse and the Android SDK.</p>

<p>I have an idea for what I think would be a fairly simple application to get my feet wet as it were. </p>

<p>We have a variety of documentation that is in PDF and Epub. </p>

<p>I would like to create an application where the APK contains all the specified documentation for a given application with the following criteria. When the user installs the APK file it would do the following:</p>

<ol>
<li>Create a folder on the SD card called SystemDocs, </li>
<li><p>Create a subfolder under System Docs for the a given system say Accounting for example</p></li>
<li><p>Create two subfolders under accounting one for PDF files and one for Epub documents</p></li>
<li><p>Check to ensure that the user has a suitable application installed for reading PDF and Epub documents and if not find it on the Android Market and ask the user to install it.</p></li>
<li><p>Copy the Epub and PDF documents to their respective folders</p></li>
<li>Exit</li>
</ol>

<p>Based on the above I was looking for some recommendations as to where to go from here. I am the type that likes to just dive in and start trying to write something useful as opposed to the </p>

<p>10 For x = 1 to 10
20 Print “My First Basic Program”
30 Next X 
40 End</p>

<p>Kind of thing. Any thoughts, advice, recommendations, or example code would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>Cheers,</p>

<p>Gordon</p>
