Looking for advice on migrating an app from Gingerbread to Jellybean - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have application that I have been developing for over a year and half now. I used the app to teach myself Android programming. When I started the development Gingerbread was the main sdk and that is what I targeted. Well now ICS and Jellybean are out and I was looking at migrating my app from Gingerbread to the newer sdks.
I was wondering if anyone had any tips, tutorials or any other areas that I could review to get ideas on how to most efficiently go about this process. I would like to keep everything in the same files if possible and not have to start from scratch.
Any help or pointers are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Eric

Target newest sdk and set minimum to the current sdk (gb??? )
There is a support library out, use it and rewrite any tabs to use Fragments.
Than try with Emulators whether it does work on jb and gb, if it isnt working correctly, looking logcat should help
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Can someone tell me where can I find tutorials and books for programming Android Apps? I already installed Eclipse and now I need to read something that will help me how to begin the programming. I know some Java programming and know I need to learn how to apply it in developing Android Apps. I need some sources other than developer.android.com
Here's a tutorial:
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Also, you can always use Google:
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OK. I'm new to this forum and I didn't expect answers so quick I think this is more then enough for beginning. I'll see what will I do with these, and then if I need (and I hope I will), I'll search for more. Thanks a lot guys

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[Q] Android SDK docs on an Android tablet?

(Can't post to the "development" forums yet, so this is the best I can do....)
I'd like to have the Android SDK docs installed on my Nexus 7 so I can RTFM while away from the office. After downloading them using the SDK Manager within Eclipse I've tried copying the guide, reference, and assets directories onto the tablet and accessing the index.html files with Chrome, but the navigation doesn't work properly and things are incredibly slow. (The links within are relative, so they resolve, but it's still unusable.)
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However you CAN post in the Q&A section. Which is where this [Q]question belongs.
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Thank you.
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What an extremely helpful forum. I wanted to commend everyone that read this thread for your untiring help and responses with this basic newb question of setting up the IDE software to write the most basic app.
Excellent forum, excellent job everyone!
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