A couple of months ago, I got my first real smart phone, a HTC Tattoo. It is not quite in league with the big ones, like Hero or Droid. Not to mention Nexus One or HTC Legend.

It is however a nice little phone, and although the screen is relatively small (2.8" and QVGA) it suits my needs quite nicely.

Now, I am a software developer and as such a phone which is programmable is really a toy for someone like me, as well as a tool. So I have plans, oh I have plans.

My normal development environment is Visual Studio and .NET (C#), so Eclipse and java is quite far away from what I usually use. Although the syntax in C# and Java is very like each other, the SDK is very very different.

Even a simple Hello World applikation is a struggle. But I will get there, I have no doubt. It is what I want, all I need is the time for it.

So, my plans for Android development?

1. Develop something simple, but useful. I have decided to write an Android application for retrieving the server status for City of Heroes, which is available from the site. This will be accomplished through several steps with the first being very very simple.

2. Develop something more complicated, like maybe an application for blogging from the phone to e.g. a BlogEngine.NET blog.

There are blog applications for Android, but those I have found sofar is for Wordpress, no one seems to implement the meta weblog API.

That is the plan, now for the time to follow it…