New kid in town

Hello all, my name is Allen, I live in Waco, Texas. I bought my first Android phone, a DroidX about a month ago.

I learned computer programming about twenty five years ago in BASIC. Since then I have programmed as a hobby off and on in languages such as Quick Basic, Visual Basic and Just Basic, I also write Excel Macro's at work using Visual Basic. I feel that my programming fundamentals are solid, even thogh I have missed out on a lot of the new programming tools such as JAVA.

I created an account here hoping to get some advice on JAVA programming. I have already downloaded Eclipse and the Android SDK an written a few simple apps and installed them on my DroidX and tested them, they are a little bit more complex than "Hello Android", but I am just scratching the surface. I am eventually hoping to learn how to access a phones GPS in a java app.

It's time for me to show my ignorance now I understand that in Java it is possible import another application into your project and reuse portions of it without having to reinvent the wheel? I realize my question isn't well worded but I hope it is coherent enough to get a meaningfull dialog started, any help will be greatly appreciated and I am sure I will have a ton of followup questions.

Hello Douglas, yes I have been thru the Android Developers Guide, I am certain that most of the answers to my questions are in there somewhere but sometimes it is nice to have a more experienced person help me break it down into smaller pieces that I can wrap my brain around.