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In this part of my Git video tutorial I cover Branching, HEAD, Checkout, Rebasing, Reverting, Reset, Clean, and Mergetool. I also spend some time explaining what happens when you commit and how to solve merge conflicts.
If you haven’t watched parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial you definitely should watch them first so that this isn’t confusing. I also provide a cheat sheet / transcript below after the video to aid in translation. Continue reading Git Video Tutorial 3
Here I’ll show you how to quickly fix the Android Fragment error that many people are having trouble with. This fix will work with every part of my Android video tutorial.
I have both a video as well as a step-by-step list below on how to fix it. While my current Android tutorial is still very current I’m also planning on making another Java Android tutorial very soon. I just wanted to get this quick fix out as soon as possible. Continue reading Fix Android Fragment Error
In this part of my Git video tutorial I’ll cover using GitHub and remote repositories in general. We’ll push and pull data from GitHub and to GitHub. We’ll also take a look at remote, fetch, tagging, aliases, clone and much more.
If you missed part 1 of my Git video tutorial you need to watch that first because I covered a lot there. I also have a transcript of the video below. Continue reading Git Video Tutorial 2
I still have 4 Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phones to give away. For the next contest I wanted to do something very fun.
To enter you basically need to make a 2 minute or less video explaining why you should win. The video that is the funniest to me wins. Make sure the video isn’t offensive in any way. That is basically the only requirement. Don’t think the video has to be fancy in any way. I just want you to make some people laugh. The deadline for entry is April 30th. Continue reading You Win a Phone if I Laugh
One of you guys asked me to make a Git video tutorial so I did.
Specifically I go over all the different types of version control. We look at the difference between modified, staged and committed. We then install and set everything up for Windows, OSX and Linux. I briefly go over using VIM and show how to set up other editors. Then I cover the commands init, add, commit, status, diff, rm, log and more. A cheat sheet follows the video below. Continue reading Git Video Tutorial
It was very hard for me to make a decision on who should win the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear smart watch. I have narrowed my decision down to the four below. The decision was based on the votes here, the quality of the work and the complexity of the work. The winner will be contacted tomorrow.
Thank you very much for all of the amazing art that was submitted! There is still an opportunity to win 4 Samsung Note 3s though in the up coming contests. The next part of the contest will be based on video submissions. Continue reading The Final Four
In this video I will finish the Android Contact App I started in the last video. The goal of this tutorial is to keep everything simple, but to teach numerous things.
I’ll show you how to create lists of contacts, which will contain a list of information on each contact. Will save these contacts to a database online. We’ll also be able to edit it from multiple screens. After this video you’ll be able to create lists of contacts, edit contacts and delete them, with everything stored online. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 20
I am holding an art contest in which the winner gets a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and a Galaxy Gear smart watch. The contest is still open until April 11th, 2014 if anyone still wants to enter.
Below I have all of the entries so far. I’m very interested in who you guys think should win. Please leave your vote below. I’d love for the community to participate in deciding the winner. Continue reading Who Should Win?
In this part of my App Inventor tutorial I will answer a bunch of questions. I’ll cover how to plan an application so that you can cut down on errors and have no problem with the blocks.
I will also show how to make a Android contacts app that store lists of people. You’ll also store that information in a TinyWebDB. We will then be able to update lists of lists on other screens. All the blocks are after the video below. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 19
In this part of my App Inventor video tutorial I will provide an App Inventor Texting Example. I have been asked for the easiest way to make a texting app and this is it.
The app will allow you to send texts, receive texts, and also send out an alert to the sender if you are busy. I decided to make this app right out of my head to help those people that have questions about the thought process during programming. All of the blocks used can be found below after the video. Here is the finished app if you want it. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 18
The first winner has been announced, but the competition is far from being over. I still have 5 more Samsung Galaxy Note 3s to give away with a few Galaxy Gear smart watches.
To get an opportunity to win the next, you have between now and April the 11th to enter. What I’m looking for is for you to submit artwork that in some way incorporates either a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 or a Galaxy Gear smart watch. The full rules can be found below. Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Giveaway 1
In this part of my App Inventor tutorial, I will provide an App Inventor TinyWebDB Example. This one should be fun. We’ll be making a chat application that I call IncognitoEx. It will allow you to chat with anyone who also has the app. Here is the APK if you want to try it out.
It allows you to send and receive messages. You can find the messages here You can even make your own TinyWebDB web service by following the directions here Creating a Custom TinyWebDB Service. All of the blocks can be found after the video below. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 17
It is time to start the first Samsung giveaway! Over the next few weeks I will be giving away both a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and a Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch. I’m going to structure these contests so that who ever puts in the most effort has the best chance to win $898 worth of prizes.
The first part of the contest will be based around you properly answering questions from an interview I recently had. You must submit your answers by March 27, 2014. I want to thank the Samsung Developers Network and the Samsung Smart App Challenge for donating these wonderful devices. Continue reading Samsung Giveaway
In this part of my App Inventor tutorial I show how to do something that has been requested many times. I’ll show how to share a database between multiple screens with App Inventor.
One of you asked me to keep this very simple and so I will. I’ll show how to add, update and remove data from a database from multiple screens. All of the blocks used follow the video below. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 16
In this video I had the privilege of allowing my community to ask an app developer anything. I spoke with Eugeny Krouglov of MaxNick.com. They won the Samsung Smart App Challenge. They have developed 9 apps that are on both the Google Play and Apple App Store. Their apps have been downloaded millions of times.
Their list of games include Sword Vs. Sword, Spider Jack, Dots Out, Curling 3D and many more. Continue reading Ask an App Developer Anything
I’m happy to announce that I will be giving away 6 Samsung Galaxy Note 3s with 6 Samsung Galaxy Gear watches! Each are valued at a retail price of $898 for a total of $5,388 in prizes.
On top of offering great prizes I’ll also be doing a live interview with the app developer that won the Samsung Smart App Challenge for 2013. I’ll be interviewing the head of marketing at MaxNick.com LLC this Thursday at 11 AM (EST) Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Giveaway
In this part of my App Inventor tutorial I will create an Android contact app. Through making this app I will cover most everything about using Lists, List Pickers, TinyDB, TinyWebDB, Fusion Tables, and Texting. I start off simply here by focusing on creating Lists through an interface.
The design used as well as all the blocks can be found below the video. Feel free to leave requests for anything else you’d like to see. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 15
In this video I completely finish the Android weather app. I show how to make App Inventor wait for an operation to complete before proceeding. We also will allow the user to pull up latitude and longitude data when they enter their city and state. We use that data to pull current weather data. We teach are app to speak the weather to us. We look at many ways to manipulate text.
I have the finished app here. All the blocks are available below. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 14
A few days ago I did a video on the winner of the Samsung Smart App Challenge. Since everyone seemed to like it I decided to cover the other 9 winners in just one 9 minute video.
The winning apps are available for download here. I also did a tutorial on the Samsung Mobile SDK if you want to learn about that. Continue reading Samsung Smart App Challenge 2013 Winners
In this part of my App Inventor video tutorial I pretty much finish the Android Weather app. I cover how to create a dynamic interface, pull data from a web service, work with colors and cover logic in App Inventor. This is basically a large review of everything I have covered while making my Android Weather app in App Inventor here.
All of the settings for the Design View and all the blocks used follow the video below. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 13