Intro to Android Development
  • Welcome
  • Syllabus
  • Hack Challenge
  • Resources
    • Lecture Videos
    • Ed Discussion
    • Git & GitHub Help/How-To
    • Setting up Android Studio
    • Starting an Android Studio Project & Making an Emulator
    • Importing, Exporting, & Submitting Your Projects to CMS
  • FA24 Course Material
    • Lecture 1 & Exercise 1: Introduction to Android
    • Lecture 1.5: Beauty of Kotlin
    • Lecture 2 & HW 2: Modifiers, Lazylists and Reactive UI
    • Lecture 3 & HW 3: Animations, Intents and Manifest
    • Lecture 4 & HW 4: Coroutines & Navigation
    • Lecture 5 & HW 5: Persistent Storage, Networking, and JSON Parsing
    • Lecture 6 & HW 6: MVVM, Flows
    • Bonus Lectures & Bonus HW
  • Textbook
    • 1. Introduction to the Editor and Views
      • 1.1 Introduction to the Editor
      • 1.2 SDK Management
      • 1.3 Kotlin Overview
      • 1.4 Views
      • 1.5 Android Studio Project Demo + Understanding The Editor
    • 2. Jetpack Compose
      • 2.1 Introduction
      • 2.2 Layouts
      • 2.3 Modifiers
      • 2.4 Animations
      • 2.5 Lazy Lists
      • 2.6 Reactive UI
    • 3. Intents and Manifest
      • 3.1 Activities
      • 3.2 Implicit Intents
      • 3.3 Explicit Intents
      • 3.4 Manifest
      • 3.5 Permissions
      • 3.6 Summary
    • 4. Navigation
      • 4.1 Types of Navigation
      • 4.2 Implementation of the Bottom Navigation Bar
    • 5. Data and Persistent Storage
      • 5.1 Singleton Classes
      • 5.2 Shared Preferences
      • 5.3 Rooms
      • 5.4 Entities
      • 5.5 Data Access Objects
      • 5.6 Databases
    • 5.5 Concurrency
      • 5.5.1 Coroutines
      • 5.5.2 Implementation of Coroutines
      • 5.5.3 Coroutines with Networking Calls
    • 6. Networking and 3rd Party libraries
      • 6.1 HTTP Overview
      • 6.2 3rd Party Libraries
      • 6.3 JSON and Moshi
      • 6.4 Retrofit
      • 6.5 Summary
    • 7. MVVM Design Pattern
      • 7.1 Key Idea
      • 7.2 Implementation Ideas
    • 8. Flows
    • 9. The Art and Ontology of Software
    • 10. 🔥 Firebase
      • 10.1 Setting up Firebase
      • 10.2 Authentication
      • 10.3 Analytics
      • 10.4 Messaging
      • 10.5 Firestore
  • Additional Topics
    • Git and GitHub
    • Exporting to APK
  • Archive
    • Archived Native Android Textbook Pages
      • 1. Layouts and More Views
        • 1.1 File Structure and File Types
        • 1.2 Resource Files
        • 1.3 Button and Input Control
        • 1.4 ViewGroups
        • 1.5 Summary + A Note On Chapter 2 Topics
      • 2. RecyclerViews
        • 2.1 RecyclerViews
        • 2.2 RecyclerView Performance
        • 2.3 Implementation of a Recycler View
        • 2.4 Implementation with Input Controls
        • 2.5 Filtering RecyclerViews
        • 2.6 Recyclerview Demo
      • 3. ListViews and Searching
        • 3.1 ListView vs. RecyclerView
        • 3.2 ListView Performance
        • 3.3 Implementation of a ListView
        • 3.4 Searching in a List View
      • 4. Fragments
        • 4.1 What are Fragments?
        • 4.2 Lifecycle of a Fragment
        • 4.3 Integrating a Fragment into an Activity
        • 4.4 Sharing Data Between Fragments
        • 4.5 Fragment Slide Shows
      • 5. OkHttp
      • 6. Activity Lifecycle
      • 7. Implementation of Tab Layout
    • Spring 2024 Course Material
      • Lecture 1 & Exercise 1: Introduction to Android
      • Lecture 4 & HW 4: LazyLists
      • Lecture 6 & HW 6: Networking, Data, and Persistent Storage
    • Spring 2020 Course Material
      • Week 1: Intro to the Editor
      • Week 2: Views and Layouts
      • Week 3: Intent and Manifest
      • Week 4: ListView and RecyclerView
      • Week 5: Fragments
      • Week 6: Networking
    • Spring 2021 Lecture & HW 8: Networking & 3rd Party APIs
    • HackOurCampus Workshop
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Lecture 1 & Exercise 1: Introduction to Android

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Textbook Section: 1. Introduction to the Editor and Views

Lecture: Google Slides

Discussion:

Demo:

Exercise Instructions:

Setting Up

First, let's set up your Android Studio Environment and make sure you have your emulator working so we can run our apps. Follow along with Lecture 1's setup demo and if you have any issues see the Setting up Android Studio section of the textbook. If you are experiencing difficulty setting up Android Studio contact us on Slack or in office hours and we will help sort it out!

We will now need to import the starter code zip file which you can see in the tutorial on this page: Importing, Exporting, & Submitting Your Project

Required Tasks

In the starter code, there will be a series of TODO's spread amongst the project that you must complete. This is the only time we will be using starter code in homework since in future assignments we want you to experience making a project from scratch. This week we will use starter code to make things easier since everything is still new, so the emphasis this week is to get familiar with the environment! Peek around at the different files and explore and experiment!

To see all of the TODO's (TODO 0 to TODO 7) click on the "TODO" tab at the bottom near the terminal and Logcat:

Submission

After completing all of the TODOs you will need to export your project as a zip file and upload it to CMS which you can see in the tutorial on this page: Importing, Exporting, & Submitting Your Project

If you have any trouble at all, do not hesitate to reach out to the course staff, we are all happy to help or just talk! Best of luck!

Exercise Starter Code:

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