>>>>>Hi
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>>>>>I'm thinking about an app I want to create but I'm not sure where to start with development tools.
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>>>>>Any ideas ?
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>>>>>Thanks
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>>>>I'm using Android Studio (as per the link Fernando posted)
>>>>Works well. IDE is similar to VS which helps. Also contains emulators for testing. Should be all you need.
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>>>Thanks Viv
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>>>and a late happy new year
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>>And to you. I think you'll find Android programming interesting. Biggest surprise for me was that there's no real mature data-binding available - Google have a beta library but.........
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>PMFJI, does this Android tool create a native Android application, similar to a Win Forms?

Similar - though the process is perhaps more similar to WPF - the UI is defined in XML files; 'code behind' in Java.

>And, if you know, would it allow making an app to store data in some "local" space on the Android? That is, would it be conducive to make an app for a disconnected use?

Lots of options for storing data : local files (on internal or external storage) or SqlLite) . You can also choose whether data is made available to other apps (and access data which other apps agree to share)

Outline of options here : http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html