Tag: TheNewBoston

  • Day 10 – Learning Android Development

    Today I finished the video tutorials on beginner java programming from TheNewBoston. I didn’t pay attention to videos 60-78 and the last 4 videos because they were about JFrame (GUI development) and I already have XML to worry about for android so there’s no point seeing this subject right now. Here’s an overview of what I…

  • Day 9 – Learning Android Development

    Today I continued with the java tutorials from TheNewBoston. I’m doing this to be able to better understand the programming language behind android development. I watched videos 20-57, I stopped at polymorphism  to get a night’s sleep on that subject and review it tomorrow. The videos covered a great deal of subjects, most of them…

  • Day 7 – Learning Android Development

    My connection has been fixed so today I was able to resume the TheNewBoston tutorials. Today I learned some new interesting things while working on a second app from the tutorial. The app consists of a text input box, that when typing certain commands it will do things. For example you can type in WTF and it will…

  • 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…

  • 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…