Friday, January 23, 2015

Android Learning

Last night I decided to look into the basics of Android app development.  I downloaded the Android studio and went through getting the simulator to run.  I then explored the basics by changing the textview text with a button click. This exercise had me learning, creation of UI elements in the xml, visual and java environments. And responding to a action made upon an item, the click for a button a really important thing to know how to do. So all told I spent about 3 hours and was very pleased to come so far. My iOS app development and java knowledge made it go much faster and smother than I feared.
This morning I spent another hour and a half, making imageview move in response to touch. Eventually getting the touch method out of the main activity and creating a custom imageView that handled its own touch events.

Overall I have to say I am pleased with how fast it went and will be exploring more of it. I have thought about making an Android version of HexagonApp.

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