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Android Development for Beginners 20

April 7, 2014 Derek Banas 14 Comments

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 →

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Android Development for Beginners 19

April 5, 2014 Derek Banas 6 Comments

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 →

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Android Development for Beginners 15

March 16, 2014 Derek Banas 2 Comments

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 →

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Android Development for Beginners 14

March 9, 2014 Derek Banas 6 Comments

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 →

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Android Development for Beginners 13

March 4, 2014 Derek Banas 4 Comments

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 →

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Android Development for Beginners 12

February 27, 2014 Derek Banas 8 Comments

In this video I’ll focus on creating App Inventor interfaces. I’ll take the vector art I made in the last tutorial and convert it into a App Inventor interface.

I create regular non-App Inventor interfaces in pretty much exactly the same way. Here is the original vector art I created. Here is the finished transparent PNGs I made in this video. The component information follows the video. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 12 →

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Android Development for Beginners 11

February 22, 2014 Derek Banas 12 Comments

In this part of my App Inventor tutorial I will start covering Android interface design. I want the weather app we have been creating in parts 9 and 10 of this series to look very nice.

Here I’ll show you how I created the layout and I’ll also walk you through the techniques needed to draw all of your icons in Inkscape. The vector art is available here. Here is an Inkscape video tutorial if you’d like to learn more. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 11 →

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Android Development for Beginners 9

February 15, 2014 Derek Banas 23 Comments

This is the first video in a series in which we will make a professional weather app for Android. In this video I will show how to parse JSON Data with App Inventor. I also cover the App Inventor Web component, using Location Sensor, converting JSON data into an App Inventor List and much more.

I pull all the weather data from weather.gov. If you want international weather data I’d use the JSON feed from the Weather Underground. All of the blocks follow the video. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 9 →

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Android Development for Beginners 7

February 8, 2014 Derek Banas 4 Comments

In this tutorial I’ll show you most of what you need to know for drawing Android buttons for your interfaces. I’ll be using a free program called Inkscape to draw 6 buttons. I did my best to cover all of the most common techniques you will need in this one tutorial.

If you want to know more about Inkscape, I have an Inkscape Video Tutorial that goes over most everything you can do with Inkscape. Here is the finished vector art from this tutorial. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 7 →

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Android Development for Beginners 6

February 3, 2014 Derek Banas 6 Comments

In this tutorial I decided to make an Android Beat Box App. It could also be converted into a voice note app, or anything else that would benefit from being able to record and later play back sounds.

I’ll specifically cover how to use the Android SoundRecorder, Player, take another look at using list, teach more about logic and incremental programming. All of the blocks used can be found below after the video. The answer for the Reset Button homework is also down there. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 6 →

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Android Development for Beginners 5

January 31, 2014 Derek Banas 10 Comments

In this tutorial I thought it would be fun to make 2 apps. I make an app that grabs weather map data dynamically and displays it. I also make an app that shows how to use the camera, image picker and TinyDB with App Inventor.

I got the maps from the Weather Underground and weather.com. All together I show how to display images from the internet, take pictures, retrieve images from the gallery, store pictures in TinyDB, resize your app to fit any device and more. The blocks used can be found under the video below. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 5 →

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Android Development for Beginners 4

January 27, 2014 Derek Banas 9 Comments

In this tutorial I’ll finish up the app I made in the last part. I’ll continue to cover event handling, sliders, and notifier. I’ll also cover how to open other App Inventor apps, browsers, email, Google Maps, YouTube and more.

All the blocks I drew in the video follow below the video to help. Next time I will create an app that will show how to display audio, video, images and more locally and across the internet. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners 4 →

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Android Development for Beginners

January 18, 2014 Derek Banas 53 Comments

The time has come to cover Android Development for Beginners. After reading hundreds of comments it has become clear that well over 80% of the apps everyone wants to make can be made using a tool called App Inventor. Over the next few videos I will cover everything you can make with App Inventor.

I’ll cover how to install App Inventor and then use it to make an app that uses GPS, Opens Dialog Boxes, Opens other apps, vibrates devices, plays sounds, converts text to speech, uses the accelerometer, adapts to screen orientation and more. Continue reading Android Development for Beginners →