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3. #Build a simple android app Offline#

They are also quite challenging to implement. Click on the link above to get to the playlist.Ĭountdown Timer / Stopwatch (Those are 2 different links)Ī countdown timer and stopwatch are app ideas that you will probably not hear that often, but they are actually pretty cool and fun to build. For that reason it’s good to learn about it as early as possible.

#Build a simple android app android#

Configuration changes are an important Android concept that you can’t get around if you want to create apps.

#Build a simple android app how to#

There you will also learn how to handle configuration changes, which happen for example when you rotate an Android device. I have a tutorial on Youtube for a Tic Tac Toe game with a points counter and a reset functionality. (This does not include creating a computer player/AI, that’s a lot harder). But you will have to ponder a bit to figure it out. That’s because the logic behind it is simple enough that even though it’s challenging at first, pretty much everyone can do it. Ok, I guess there are some, but Tic Tac Toe is a really nice project to practice coding in a fun and enjoyable way. I think there is no developer who didn’t build a Tic Tac Toe game when he first started out.

Don’t give up too quickly! You will learn much faster by solving problems yourself. If you want to make it a bit more challenging, pause the video at difficult spots and try to figure out the next step yourself before I present the solution. If that’s the case, the title of the paragraph will be a link and you can click on it to get to this particular video or playlist. To most of these app ideas I have Youtube tutorials, where I explain everything step by step. You should do something more difficult instead. If you are already an advanced developer, this post is not for you. They will help you learn important basic concepts, not avoid them.

#Build a simple android app Offline#

Those will be offline apps without any advanced third party libraries. In this blog post we want to take a look at some simple app ideas for beginning Android programmers. The good news is, you can actually build really cool stuff without complicated online features, user accounts, servers and stuff like that. Be patient about it and try to learn as much as possible along the way. Start small and incrementally increase the difficulty level.

And with “I tried to build” I mean that I created 2 screens before I deleted the project. The first app I tried to build was a gamified Pomodoro timer in which I basically wanted to implement a whole role playing game world. Others have ideas but start too big and with too advanced concepts, so they don’t finish their project. The problem is, a lot of people don’t really know what to build. Building little programs on the other hand is exciting and gives you a sense of accomplishment after you’ve done it. Exercises in books are usually dry and boring and can make you think that programming is as much fun as doing math homework.

But once you understand the basic concepts and know how to build a simple layout, it’s much more fun to practice by creating an actual app. Now, you could do the exercises that most programming books contain and that’s probably your best choice if you are just starting out and have zero experience. We want the stuff we are learning to stick, which means we have to write code. If you ever tried to read a book about coding without actually trying it out yourself, you might have experienced situations where a concept totally made sense to you when you first read it, but when you later tried to reproduce it, you completely forgot how the syntax looked or how to even begin. Reading programming books or watching courses is fine, but they become pretty useless if you don’t practice what you’re learning.

The best way to learn programming is by getting your hands dirty and writing actual code.