In this post, we’re going to look at the newer RecyclerView to build more complicated lists and list items. RecyclerView was a recently added UI item that gave developers fine-grain control and power over their lists or grids. However, as we’ll find out, that great power comes with great responsibility. RecyclerView doesn’t provide much of the basic functionality that ListView … Read more
Hello World! In this post, we’re going to learn how to use one of the most useful views in Android: the ListView. We can use ListViews to present data in the form of a list. We can choose any kind of data as input and display it however we want. That’s the power of a ListView. In this … Read more
This is Part 2 of the series on creating a Unit Converter app (you can view part 1 here). In this final section, we’re going to work on the View and Controller of our Unit Converter and learn about how we can design a UI with Spinners to allow the user the convert units. View Since we have a relatively … Read more
In this post (split into two), we’re going to build a unit converter app. We’ll be learning many things along the way like the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, Java Enums, and Spinners. By the end of this post, we’ll have a working app that will allow us to convert to and from various units of distance like miles, centimeters, kilometers, and other units. … Read more
Hello World! In this post we’re going to create our very first Android application! We’re going to download Android Studio and other prerequisites. Then we’re going to create a new Android Studio project and write a little app such that the user can type in his or her name, press a button, and the app will … Read more
What if you could learn, from total scratch, to code in Java and make your own Android M phone and wearable apps? In this course, you will learn to create your own Android M apps from scratch using Java. The course includes 5 Real-World apps fully explained and built from the ground up + the … Read more
