Not to much going on, just have class today and some homework in the class. Android image files can only have a-z0-9_ in the file name. You don’t need to import the R file if you are in the main package.

Select a string, click the bulb, and click Extract Resource. To make a new string in the Resources file.

Not too much to report today, just been watching some more videos that review the same topics as the previous ones.

I’ve been going thru the Your First Kotlin Android App: Polishing the App You can add parameters to the @Preview for changing the size of the preview device. The switch statement from most things, can be handled using a when. The structure window helps you jumping between sections of code.

Today we have another class session later, but I’m reviewing some of the sample code. If you wanna create a date for sample code easy way to do that is Instant.parse(“yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ssZ”) That would be ISO 8601. Chapter 6 of the book: goes into interaction for the app MVI: Model View […]

Today I’m working thru the Your First Kotlin Android App: An App From Scratch which can be found on Kodeco’s website. When you have a slider you can use inclusive range by only using two dots between two numbers Also 32.sp is 32 scale points, a font size measurement. Making […]

Today I’ve been working thru chapter 3 of the book. Chapter 3 covered a lot. Chapter 3 started off by discussing Activities. MainActivity extends ComponentActivity. The entry point to MainActivity is configured in the AndroidManifest, and calls the onCreate function. ComponentActivity defines a version of this function that is then […]

Today I’ve also decided to learn some of Apple Vision Pro development, since I have a pre-order in for one. I found an older playlist, By Flo Writes Code. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-bD2p6sedqgfJ-RSaLwxfMGCYDsV_412 It was very informative on what the buttons in the simulator are supposed to do and how you are supposed […]

As part of this course I took a Git refresher, https://www.kodeco.com/39764893-getting-started-with-git is a great course. I have been using git for quite a while. One of the things that I haven’t done in a while is setting up the SSH Keys, so that was a good refresher. Another part of […]

I’m attending a remote Android Bootcamp starting today (Jan 22, 2023), in addition to my day job doing iOS and Web Development. I’ll be documenting my progress thru the course.