cse7392.MobileAppDev

A handout that weaves together various Android tutorial docs covering UI is now available:
http://lyle.smu.edu/~coyle/cse7392mobile/handouts/s03.Android.UI.pdf

There are now videos from the startup class. They are rough, done with a small camera. Better camera on its way!

Videos:
Intro To the Class.
Android part 1.
Also, a web video of interest.
 
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Finally made some headway getting Android to run on my laptop. My guess (?) is that over time there were some Eclipse related items lurking in the registry, so I bit the bullet and reloaded Windows XP. Lots of stuff gone but lots o junk gone too. So with a clean slate I did the following;
1) Downloaded the Java SDK (with the javac compiler)
2) Tested that installation was ok by opening command window and typing: java -version
    result was version 1.5 so all is ok.
3) Downloaded Eclipse from ecl...
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Some videos on the way. Your objective: download eclipse and the android SDK,
Follow instructions at android download site.

Android Download Site:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r2/index.html
 
This should lead you to the Install Page:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r2/installing.html

Scroll down to Eclipse Ganymede install section for step by step details.

Goal: get Hello World up and running in the emulator and see if you can modify things so that your own text gets displayed.

From t...
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Good YouTube video: Android 1.5 Overview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpfQISmjmVs&feature=channel

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A link of interest that helps explain the lifecycle of an Android App:

http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/11/25/android-lifecycle-triggers-part-1/


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Since I expect things to move rapidly in this short semester, I'll be using this site as "the class website" - just because it's so much easier to post info here than to use DreamWeaver and do the upload ftp thing. As usual, there will be lots of handouts. My plan is to upload the handouts to http://lyle.smu.edu/~coyle/cse7392mobile/handouts  You should be able to click on that url and see the list of handouts. Just download what you don't have. To really stay plugged in you should grab the R...
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Heading out to attend Google IO in San Francisco. Looking to find lots of good tech-stuff for our class.
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To run your first hello world program on Google Android, check out the developer link at:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r1/installing.html
 The steps are (in shortcut version below) explained in the developer page 

1. Download Eclipse:  http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
2. Download Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r1/index.html
3. Load Eclipse and install the ADT Plugin for Eclipse - read instructions on http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r1/installing.html for how to do th...

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