I'm an independent Android developer currently working on an educational application. It's important to me to continuously improve development techniques so I can maximize the "ilities" of software I write (reliability, maintainability, testability, understandability, etc.)

Here's a mind map of tools and technologies I am presently using or investigating. You can click on hyperinks to bring you to related sites.

I'm particularly interested in using Model-Driven Software Development to keep my architecture consistent and well documented. I am not yet using Scala on Android for anything other than testing, but plan to eventually migrate to Scala for the application code.

Some of my favorite books:

• Effective Java (Bloch)
• Programming in Scala (Ordesky)
• Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code (Fowler et al)

Some favorite tools:

• Eclipse
• Guice + RoboGuice for dependency injection, though plan to replace this soon as startup is much too slow on Android
• OrmLite (ORM that works well on Android)
• Robotium for Android integration testing
• Eclispe EMF for MDSD
• Powermock + Mockito for mocking

I learned a lot from Software Engineering Radio in its heyday.