Not a whole lot of listings there, however, and unfortunately, it doesn't seem to get updated very regularly. Not much of a crowd that's sourcing the content, I guess. (That said, I really do appreciate the work that the people involved with OpenIntents have done. Kudos.)
Given the various technologies in Android that support developing frameworks (like being able to create a library project! not to mention services and intents) it's a bit surprising there aren't more resources available for finding useful libraries. Especially little teeny-tiny microframeworks that take away some of that boilerplate we Android devs have to suffer through.
As developers I think it would be nice if we were able to go to the Android Market and search for libraries and frameworks. (Yes, i'm looking at you, Google, Amazon & other app market makers.) Don't care if it's a separate market, so as not to avoid confusing end users who are just looking for apps. I'd just like a better alternative than manually having to do a search across the web and wade through the results until I find (or don't, as usually the case when searching for Android libraries) what I'm looking for.
Given that (at least for now) you're in it for fun, and that you already have Mac hardware, seems to me iOS is a good place to start. With the combination of the iPhone simulator and your iPod Touch you have what you'll need to dive in.
One thing other posters haven't brought up is the abysmal condition of the Android emulator. Unless you have an Android device on hand, you're in for a world of pain trying to develop apps using the emulator. It's snail slow, with a long boot-up time & very poor graphics performance. (It's something the Android dev tools team at Google is working hard on fixing, but it's a ways out, from my understanding.)
Finally, if you're the type who likes a structured approach to learning there's a great course that Stanford University offers covering introductory iOS development (http://goo.gl/SouE) to help get you started.
Have a look at OpenIntents (http://www.openintents.org/en/libraries), it's likely on the order of what you're looking for.
Not a whole lot of listings there, however, and unfortunately, it doesn't seem to get updated very regularly. Not much of a crowd that's sourcing the content, I guess. (That said, I really do appreciate the work that the people involved with OpenIntents have done. Kudos.)
Given the various technologies in Android that support developing frameworks (like being able to create a library project! not to mention services and intents) it's a bit surprising there aren't more resources available for finding useful libraries. Especially little teeny-tiny microframeworks that take away some of that boilerplate we Android devs have to suffer through.
As developers I think it would be nice if we were able to go to the Android Market and search for libraries and frameworks. (Yes, i'm looking at you, Google, Amazon & other app market makers.) Don't care if it's a separate market, so as not to avoid confusing end users who are just looking for apps. I'd just like a better alternative than manually having to do a search across the web and wade through the results until I find (or don't, as usually the case when searching for Android libraries) what I'm looking for.