Videos

Tools & Code

• IntelliJ: Free IDE for developing Java applications; get Community Edition. Works under most PC OS's. Only used for assignment 1.
• Android Studio: Free tool based on IntelliJ for developing Android applications. Works under most PC OS's.
• Suggested Java code style guide.
• Intro Java chapter if you want a brief guide to Java for programmers.

Special thanks to Dr. Brian Fraser for the video tutorials below. I highly recommend them as a first stop for learning about the programming skills required for this course.

Android Tutorials

Basic Android Videos

• Creating a button: Create simple project and add a button calling Log and Toast.
• (old video using Eclipse) Creating a button.
• TextView and strings.xml: Move text to strings.xml, use Java to access string and display on TextView.
• Debugging in Android Studio
• Switching activities in Android Studio. Here is a previous version of this video..
• Floating Action Button & Material Design icons
• Constraint Layout
  • Old video on nesting UI Layouts.
• Forcing activity orientation (to portrait or landscape mode).
• UI & model separation: Separate business logic (Java classes) from the UI (Activities); a pet rock.
  Highly recommended!
• ImageButton.
• Resource by Name: accessing a resource (image) by its name, not its ID.
• Context menu.
• Trouble shooting: resource problems, Java problems, cleaning a project, and working with R file problems.
• ListView: basic ListView with text (from an Array).
• Complex ListView: ListView with text and images from an list of objects (https://github.com/drbfraser/video-tutorial-code/tree/master/DemoListView_Complex)).
• Passing data to an Activity using Extras in an Intent. [Old video]
• Returning data from an Activity using Extras in an Intent. [Old video]; source code.
• SharedPrefernces and TextView.
• Dynamic Buttons and Images: populating a table of buttons at runtime and setting text and images on the buttons. source code
• Radio Buttons: build radio buttons from data in a resource file.
• Options Screen: create custom options/settings screen with SharedPreferences.
• SharedPrefernces and TextView.
• Dialog (AlertDialog): create a custom AlertDialog and interacting with parent Activity.

• Read CSV file: Read in a CSV file from the raw resource directory into Java objects.

• Google Maps API Getting Started: Getting an API key and app showing map.
• Google Maps API v2: Getting started, and moving the camera. Source code.

• Intro to Google Maps API tutorial.

  Internationalization: Translating to multiple languages

• Demo code for database operations and internationalization
• Create a Pie Graph: Using the MPAndroidChart library, create a pie graph.-->

Database on Android

• SQLite database: simple example
• DB to ListView: Populate a complex ListView with text & image IDs from the SQLite database
• Demo code for database operations and internationalization

Testing

• JUnit 5: Setting up IntelliJ Java Project
• JUnit 5: Testing
• JUnit 4 in IntelliJ: Quick introduction (not Android specific).
• JUnit 4 with Exceptions and Ignore (not Android specific).
• Creating a Java project for JUnit 3 (not Android specific).
• Creating a Robotium test project.

Intro Java Programming

• Basics: main(), functions, if, for loop
• Data class (fields, constructor, toString()...)
• ArrayList and For-Each loop
• Model/View Separation

Revision Control

Git Videos

• Android Studio / IntelliJ
  • Git in Android Studio: Creating a GitLab repo, SSH key, and initial push of code.
  • Clone Git repo in Android Studio: Cloning an existing Git (or GitLab) repo via Android Studio.
  • Git Merge Conflicts in Android Studio: Resolving merge conflicts.
  • GitLab workflow with Merge Request: Creating an issue, feature branch, switching branches, commit/push, merge request.
  • GitLab workflow with Conflicting Changes: Resolving conflicting changes before submitting a merge request in Android Studio with GitLab.

Miscellaneous Videos

• Run Java JAR from IntelliJ Terminal: How to make a Jar file in IntelliJ, then run it via built-in terminal with external dependencies.
• Deserializing JSON with GSON: What is JSON and how to deserialize a file.
• Running a Java application from the IntelliJ build-in terminal.