The Tutorial
Also I’m very interested in what you think about these tutorials. Do you think they are too easy or too hard? Do you have any special requests? What about the size and length of the episodes? Too long? Too short? Please leave a comment below and tell me what you think, so I can further improve the tutorials.
You can download the project files for this episode here: Episode #7 Project Files (.zip)
- Episode #9 – Lists: Item Clicks
- Episode #3 – Using Buttons
- Episode #10 – Intents: An Introduction
- Episode #8 – The Alert Dialog
- Episode #11 – Intents: Multi Activity Applications
- Episode #2 – Create A New Project And Run It
- Episode #6 – Notification & Long Clicks
- Episode #4 – Checkboxes & Complex Layouts
- Episode #5 – Using Radio Buttons
- Episode #1 – Getting Started!
Comments
Sanjeev
09/16/2009 – 11:34 pmThis is the best place to learn Android programming. I am following this very closely and learning in the process. Looking forward for some database connectivity exercises in Android apps
Mathias Reisch
09/17/2009 – 2:15 amHi Sanjeev!
Thank you for your kind words! Good to hear that you like the tutorials and that you learn something from watching them. Regarding you suggestion: Database connectivity is a topic that will actually be covered in the near future, so stay tuned!
Best wishes,
Mathias
Marcelo
10/02/2009 – 1:23 amGreat, great tutorials.
Trying to use what I’ve learned from these tutorials to connect my list items to inetractive flash content…(waits for MAX 2009 Announcement) Honestly thank you for putting these up!
Hesham
11/03/2009 – 3:22 pmThank you very much for this Tutorials it really helped alot and it’s very Perfect actually i hope you would continue it this way and i am waiting for more ,Keep Up the good work and Cheers from Egypt ! :)
PJFonseca
11/15/2009 – 10:56 amThanks once again for the hard work mounting this episode.
Just a simple question, there is a way to order the list? If so, in the next list episode try to do so.
:)
This guy is so cool!
12/30/2009 – 1:06 amI’ve spent so much time looking for tutorials on android programming, This guy is the most straightforward teacher I have heard!
David
01/17/2010 – 7:19 pmI’m glad I stumbled on this site. GREAT place to learn quickly. Thank you for help.
Java
03/10/2010 – 7:43 amAwesome. Please could you show how to read the names from say txt file or database instead of array string
thank you
Soren
03/16/2010 – 2:39 amAwesome tutorial. But, what about formatting the text, background colors, etc? How do you do that without the main.xml?
Feras
04/26/2010 – 12:52 pmYour Explanation is truly Amazing!.
Keep going man ;) (Y)
Ryan
04/30/2010 – 6:48 amJust thought I’d let you know:
You’re saying parameter incorrectly. xD
I love your tutorials, and I don’t mean that harshly. Please don’t take it wrong; I just wanted to let you know for future references. ;)
joshspoon
05/10/2010 – 4:11 pmI’d be interested in a complex list containing data from the web and displaying a thumbnail. I’m currently hacking my way through one. Would love to see how you do it.
Shan
06/04/2010 – 10:37 amThis is the temple of Android learning……
Thanks Mathias
Vincent Randal
07/07/2010 – 1:45 amI hope you find the time and sponsorship to continue these very valuable tutorials. These tutorials are the best that’s out there. Please don’t stop!
Mathias Reisch
07/07/2010 – 1:50 amHey Vincent,
don’t worry, I’ll keep posting new tutorials. In fact, the new tutorial on databases is almost done. I just need to find some time to polish and record it.
Krishnakumar
07/31/2010 – 8:19 amI had never seen such a website before. There is no words to say describe your teaching such a Marvelous teaching. I think this will be this best place to learn Android
Joseph
08/04/2010 – 11:18 amThanks for the great tutorials. I think 10 – 20 minutes is optimal duration for this kind of tutorials. I like your way of explaining things. It is much easyer to follow than some books I found.
bye from Croatia!
Jackpard
08/26/2010 – 1:40 amHI Mathias,
This is excellent work. I have been looking for tutorials all over the internet. But yours is the best place to start. Love your pace. Love the content. Just what is required to get started.
Dylan
09/13/2010 – 12:08 amThanks so much! I’m flying through these tutorials, they are just great!
Just thought I would point out that you can use CMD + SHIFT + O (CONTROL + SHIFT + O I’m assuming for PC) to update all your imports. This way you don’t have to add, delete, etc, as it will do it all for you.
Keep up the good work!
Robbie
09/29/2010 – 3:25 pmThese videos are really great but this one doesn’t seem to be working right now.
James
10/18/2010 – 8:37 pmThis is by far the best place for learning to develop using android on the Internet. extremely detailed, well laid out and explained and in the true spirit of open source FREE!
Keep up the great work.
Jazzy Loh
10/30/2010 – 8:56 amIt will be good to view a tutorial which shows how to create Tabbed UI List View.
Stefan
11/03/2010 – 7:41 amAnother nice tutorial. I think your approach is excellent, Mathias.
west
11/13/2010 – 7:53 pmThank you, Mathias, for this tutorial!
Viorel
11/26/2010 – 6:39 pmWow,your tutorials are really amazing , i learn each day something new,i am scared of the day that i reach episode 11 :(, i hope u will find time to post new stuff,i really dig android programming before i was learning JavaME but android is way cooler and interactive……Thanks for all the efort you put in this tutorials,personally i would like a tutorial about games,something simple or if you have time why not even more complex ones :D…….
Richard
12/25/2010 – 5:36 pmHI this is super way to learn something about developing to android. and the ListActivity is quiet useful. I would like to know somenthing about creating my own layout how to show “adapter” and what I should do if I get string[] from web. also how to work with dynammicaly data. no static field names but if I dont know how many names I will get. In my opinion I prefer more episodes about ListActivity.
and thanks a lot for your taste to do this tutorials.
I’ve shared this page!
Vyacheslav
03/08/2011 – 12:15 amThank you for this tutorials! I’m a novice in Android programming and this is very usefuly for me.
I hope to hear about using Bundles, creating my own Views, working with files and databases.
Best regards from Ukraine!
Adrià
03/17/2011 – 1:35 pmThanks man, your videos are being very helpful in these first android steps. Keep your good work and congratulations!
me
03/19/2011 – 2:32 amHello,
Thank You for tutorial! ;)
I’m waiting for gps or maps api tutorials ;)
Susan
03/29/2011 – 11:04 amExcellent video! Read some books to learn Java for Android, and you added the practical part, and explained what each part was for. Again, excellent!
Vyas Ishan
05/16/2011 – 2:43 pmhi this was awesome tutorials and thanks again for such a wonderful tutorials but can you set one more video tutorial where it shows how to play an video file