Students of our inaugural class type along with Robot Heart, which instructors will commit in this robot-heart-warming repo.
Wednesday, January 27th, 6-7pm PST
A short and sweet introductory session to shake out the kinks in the video chat process. You'll be introduced to your classmates, pitch any projects that you want to accomplish and share in the class, and form partnerships and teams.
We'll make sure you have Android Studio installed, you've joined the Slack team, you've accepted your invite to the Google Play developers console, and the Google Hangouts plugins work on your computer.
Monday, February 1st, 6-8pm PST
We'll create a step-by-step story-board using Android full-screen activities, intents, and layouts. This is useful for creating an ebook, a guided tour through your app's features, a survey, or any multi-step process you want your users to experience.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 6-8pm PST
We'll learn how to capture images and sounds using your mobile device's built-in camera and microphone. We can use this to customize our story-board app with photos and audio from your surrounding environment.
Wednesday, February 5th, 7-8pm PST
We'll learn how to load images over the internet by URL. We'll capture sounds using your mobile device's built-in microphone.
Monday, February 8th, 6-8pm PST
We'll learn how to add a list view to our story-board app, so we can view multiple options in a vertical list that can scroll up and down. This is useful for a list of products to choose from or any list of options.
Wednesday, February 10th, 6-8pm PST, 9-11pm EST
We'll add support for Parse, an online web app platform that will let us store data on the cloud, and also get dynamic new data from the cloud.
Monday, February 15th, 6-8pm PST, 9-11pm EST
Adrian's original screenrecording for Session 5 material
We'll learn how to create a simple map view using the Google Maps API to capture a user's geographical location as a useful input for our app. We'll use this to geographically tag our images and sounds from earlier with a physical location.
Wednesday, February 17th, 6-8pm PST, 9-11pm EST
We'll learn how to use the new MapBox API, an alternative to Google Maps that uses the open source OpenStreetMaps, and we'll save geographical markers to offline storage on our mobile device. This is useful for data that we want available even when we lose cell phone reception or wifi connectivity.
Monday, February 22nd, 6-8pm PST, 9-11pm EST
We'll learn how to create custom views to create new controls and interactions beyond those provided by the built-in Android interface. These are useful in games and also for creating a zoomable and scrollable map view, such as a Prezi-like presentation.
Wednesday, February 24th, 6-8pm PST, 9-11pm EST
We'll put together our custom views, photos, sounds, and geographical tagging to put together a geographical treasure hunt game.
We use various tools in this class to share code and collaborate over video chat.
This is our main communication channel.
If you haven’t already, Join our slack team at http://invisible-slack.herokuapp.com , accept the email invite.
You'll be invited to the #learn-android channel for
the class, which is students and instructors only.
The #general channel is perfect for miscellaneous
chatter, and #hackerhours is our weekly meetup
in Seattle. It's a great place to ask programming
questions and meet other beginners.