KNOW IT THEN SHARE IT: Introduction to Android Development

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Introduction to Android Development

In this series Donn Felker will walk through all the necessary steps to building and launching a sophisticated Android application.

Lessons:
1 - Introduction to Android Development

In this episode Donn covers the basics of the Android platform and the features common to Android devices. Donn shows a simple Hello World app and also walks through the steps to get your system setup and ready for Android Development.
2 - Android Architecture

In this episode Donn covers the basics of the Android system architecture which is very important and useful to understand before developing your first Android application.
3 - Building the UI

In this episode Donn gets started building the UI for the TekPub Android application that will be the focus of the remainder of this series.
4 - UI Explained Pt 1

In this episode Donn digs into creating the UI for TekPub Android application, he talks about using the designer, using the free program Droid Draw, and also creating the XML from scratch.
5 - UI Explained Pt 2

In this episode Donn continues building the UI for our TekPub application.
6 - Consuming a JSON API

In this episode Donn walks through consuming a JSON API from your Android application.
7 - Consuming a JSON API Pt. 2

In this episode Donn finishes connecting the TekPub app with the JSON API including using the Async task and showing loading dialogs.
8 - Introducing Roboguice

In this episode Donn shows how to use and integrate Roboguice - a dependency injection and IOC container for Android.