I am just starting BA4AD having struggled with the previous edition. Looking through this forum was rather depressing, not many replies to problems and lots of compatibility issues.
However, I have gleaned a few hints from the forum and will enter into Chapter 2 and Fragments with positive attitude. I am using fully updated Ecllipse, ADT and SDK (I think) which may not be wise.
M

Well good luck Meryx. As you might see from some of my other posts I've tried to address some of the issues that I've found going through the book and there are some fundamental issues with the first couple of chapters because both Eclipse and the SDKs have changed since the book was written but if you can get through these first 2 chapters then you should be good for the rest of the book.

Unlike some of the other posts, (aside from some of the fundamentals in the first 2 chapters) I found very few errors in the book and those that I did find I found manageable and where necessary I've added a thread in this forum identifying both the problem and hopefully the solution.

FYI, there was only one tutorial that I couldn't get to work properly and that was on P443 by which time you should be willing to live with that.

So good luck to you, oh and by the way, have you explored doing a MOOC on Android programming? I'm doing one through Coursera which sadly is already underway so you might not be able to join that but there are others around so that may be an option for you.

Thanks for your encouragement, wolfenr. In Chapter 2 I hit a real problem in FragmentsActivity, which compiled no problem and loaded into the emulator and then crashed 'No Source' before it ran. After much searching on the internet I tracked down the error:-
Package name must match with the book, in this case it was net.learn2develop.Fragments while I had used net.learn2develop.fragments
After that, I worked slowly through CH 2 and have now reached its end, error-free. Ch 3 is next.
I found a MOOC starting 21st Jan at Univ of Maryland, so I have signed up for the 8-week course for beginners.
Thanks again,
M

Well done Meryx, you've come across a problem that you need to keep an eye upon right the way through the book and will definitely trip you up when you create more than one class as it will affect both your Manifest file and all the java class files you create.

I think you should be good to go now though.

Best wishes and good luck!