Author: JP
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Day 6 – Learning Android Development
The internet was cut off today for unknown reasons so what I did was use my phone’s 3G network to continue learning, but I didn’t watch video tutorials because that would’ve been a bit expensive. Instead I played around with eclipse and searched a bit on the Java documentation. I played around with creating an…
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Day 5 – Learning Android Development
I didn’t do much today. I spent almost the whole day playing skyrim but right now I’ve been able to do some things. I continued with the video tutorials of TheNewBoston. I created a menu for my app, which uses a special child class of activity called ListActivity. You create an array in order for the…
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Day 4 – Learning Android Development
Today I did a bit of everything: design, sound and coding. I followed TheNewBoston again, this time videos 11-19. I’m really happy by the way he teaches and I feel I’m learning things at a good pace. I started out by creating a title design in Photoshop for the app I created yesterday, which i call “+- 1”. Note…
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Day 3 – Learning Android Development
It seems the next chapters in developer.android don’t really hold you by the hand as the first one where they guide you through building your first app. Instead they introduce you to the basics like managing activity lifecycles, supporting different devices, supporting different platform versions, building dynamic UIs, etc, but they only show you how to implement…
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Day 2 – Learning Android Development
Today has been a bit slow because I’m getting acquainted with all the new vocabulary, both from Java and the Android SDK. I’m still following the Android training from developer.android. I need to take my time to go over the methods and XML to really understand what each line does. I know most would just…