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In this post, we’re going to learn how to access just one of the multitude of sensors present on an Android device by building a very small game that uses the accelerometer

Having previously worked on Energia (A Soviet Rocket!) Elizaveta currently works preparing technology for the International Space Station. Launched in 1998, ISS is the largest Artificial orbit that can be seen

In this post, we’re going to learn about loaders as well as content providers. Loaders allow us to load vast amounts of data asynchronously so we don’t bog down the main UI thread. We can

Hello world! In this post, we’re going to learn how we can use Google Play Services to access the user’s location. Along with that, we’re also going to learn how to use Android

Hello World! In this post, we’re going to lean how to access and use the Internet. This might seem like a simple task, but we’re going to learn all of what

Hello World! In this post, we’re going to learn how we can pass data back and forth between two different activities. We’ll also learn how to reuse layouts and use our app’s manifest with

Hello World! In this post, we’re going to be covering contextual toolbars/action bars. They are a structure that will allow us to change the menu items on the toolbar based on the user’s

Hello World! In this post, we’re going to talk about Toolbars from a design perspective and then we’ll actually build an app that uses Toolbars. We’re all familiar with the top

Hello World! In this post, we’re going to cover the basics of SQLite and databases. SQLite is the main database backend that Android uses to manage complicated data. It provides more structure

In this post, we’re going to look at the newer RecyclerView to build more complicated lists and list items. RecyclerView was a recently added UI item that gave developers fine-grain control and power over

Hello World! In this post, we’re going to learn how to use one of the most useful views in Android: the ListView. We can use ListViews to present data in the form

This is Part 2 of the series on creating a Unit Converter app (you can view part 1 here). In this final section, we’re going to work on the View and Controller of our Unit

In this post (split into two), we’re going to build a unit converter app. We’ll be learning many things along the way like the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, Java Enums, and Spinners. By the

Hello World! In this post, we’re going to be going in-depth into several of the most common UI elements that we’ll encounter in Android: TextViews, EditTexts, and Buttons. We’ll be looking

Hello World! In this post we’re going to create our very first Android application! We’re going to download Android Studio and other prerequisites. Then we’re going to create a new

What if you could learn, from total scratch, to code in Java and make your own Android M phone and wearable apps? In this course, you will learn to create