Ask HN: Best way to start learning Android with PHP Background?

Honestly, once you dive into it, there's no real dedicated website for walking you through (I could be wrong here). You just kind of Google everything; however, you gotta know what you need to search for when it comes to Android/Java stuff.

I believe the Android API Documentation has an installation walk-through and even a few tutorials, though.

Google has some options for newbies, like the «Building Your First App» tutorial that you will find from this page: http://developer.android.com/training/index.html That's where I've started.

Udacity now have Android courses in partnership with Google : https://plus.google.com/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/jmSk2az9715