The Tutorial
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- Episode #4 – Checkboxes & Complex Layouts
- Episode #3 – Using Buttons
- Episode #6 – Notification & Long Clicks
- Episode #11 – Intents: Multi Activity Applications
- Episode #10 – Intents: An Introduction
- Episode #7 – Using Basic Lists
- Episode #2 – Create A New Project And Run It
- Episode #8 – The Alert Dialog
- Episode #9 – Lists: Item Clicks
- Episode #1 – Getting Started!
Comments
Amaru
02/13/2010 – 1:18 amTnx Mathias! ^_____^
Keep up the good work.
Chris
02/22/2010 – 11:36 amGreat tutorials Mathias. Very well explained. Thank you.
Ambrose
03/11/2010 – 9:40 amThat helped me a lot, thank you so much!
Julian Porras
05/26/2010 – 5:38 amThanks Mathias.. I really appreciate your work it has been very useful for me.. It is different to read than to see and understand the concepts in the practice.. i hope you continue.. Best Regards
hannes
05/27/2010 – 9:34 pmmaybe you can show later on how you put the colors in a colors.xml file
Stefan
09/14/2010 – 8:20 amTnx Tnx Tnx Tnx 100 times 10x I need this from start up just to see the framework and how it’s done :) keep up the good work!!! Regards from Macedonia
Gavin
10/29/2010 – 10:34 amThis is the best tutorial I have come across on the internet – it takes you step by step through the basics. This has given me exactly what I needed to progress with coding Android applications.
“I doff my hat good sir”
Sebastian
11/01/2010 – 11:13 amNice work keep it up!
Stefan
11/03/2010 – 4:20 amVery nice series of tutorials so far, Mathias!
You are a natural instructor :)
Alex
11/10/2010 – 1:57 amI have one question: What is the song played during the intro?
Mathias Reisch
11/13/2010 – 9:41 pm@Alex: That is some tune I composed a while ago. Thought it would be too long, so the newer tutorials have a much shorter intro. :)
Matt
11/24/2010 – 5:07 amAwesome tutorials! Best I’ve seen anywhere. Very well explained and helpful!
Bill
01/23/2011 – 7:21 ami think this was another good tutorial, and i think it’s good how you seem to show different ways of doing things as the lessons go on. but, i’m a little confused about how we seem to be casting the View v as a RadioButton. maybe i missed the part where this is explained, but i don’t understand why we are doing this.
Bobby jindal
03/07/2011 – 11:30 amReally Thanx…for such Brief Tutorials…
John
03/29/2011 – 6:01 pmHi, great tutorials however I have a couple of questions:-
1) Can I download the turorials to watch offline ?
2) In tutorial 5 you created “tvPick = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.current_pick);” 4 times but only one was needed.
3) Why create a new button and set a listener to if with:
RadioButton rb_red = (RadioButton)findViewById(R.id.radio_red);
rb_red.setOnClickListener(radioListener);
Why not like this:
findViewById(R.id.radio_red).setOnClickListener(radioListener);
Thanks John
stephen
03/30/2011 – 6:30 pmbrilliantly explained ,,please dont stop
Tyler
04/05/2011 – 11:31 pmI’m using API version 8 (2.2) and I’m unable to cast from a View to a RadioButton in this line of code:
RadioButton rb = (RadioButton)v;
Cannot cast from View to RadioButton
jeroen
05/03/2011 – 12:59 amHey thnks for the greate tutorial but i have a question.
Whene i was at the point of creating the :
RadioButton rb = (RadioButton)v;
I got an error saying :
‘cannot cast from view to RadioButton’
i have been searching for a solution but cant find it.
the help would be greatly appriciated.
sorry for the english @ times :P
Naveen
05/19/2011 – 8:35 amVery clear and understandable. Good for android beginners. Thanks.
More advanced tutorials like using google maps and cameras etc will be more helpful, if possible.
And one small question… Developing android application for mobile devices is same as developing on any other device like a tablet ? or are there any differences in the practices we follow.
Naveen
05/19/2011 – 11:56 amNice and helpful tutorial
I am very new to Android and Java.. so i have one question here.
why have you defined the ‘radioListener’ and TextView at the class level as globals. what happens if we define inside the onCreate method
Nobita8x
05/27/2011 – 11:32 amthanks you very much..!