[java] Porting a game in Java

First I would recommend getting familiar with Java: http://developer.android.com/index.html. If you never plan to do desktop apps you can skip the part about "Creating Graphical User Interfaces"

Then learn Android: http://developer.android.com/index.html

Android is Google's answer to the iPhone. It has a pretty large market share and has a market similar to Apple's App Store, without the restrictions.

[Edited by - CaptainJester on June 14, 2010 9:08:24 PM]

You might have a look at:

http://www.rokonandroid.com/

I have no experience with it, just heard about it.

The new release of jMonkeyEngine3( http://www.jmonkeyengine.com ) will also be able to deploy to android. But it is in early alpha state and there won't be much support at the moment (but I guess a 3d-engine won't be the right choice for your typing-application) If you find other possible engine, I'm interested in that topic as well...

Good luck

i would have a look at the "swing" components
there basically the GUI components of java

and have a look at http://netbeans.org/
its a java IDE and one of its features is the ability to create mobile specific applications, i dont know how easy it would be to make thou and im guessing you will want to make it with touchscreen which i have no idea about
however if you have any questions please ask ;)