Week 10 Summary

The tasks done this week are as follows :

• Watched some tutorials from Android Application Development Tutorials - YouTube for developing Android Application.

• Time spent : 21/10/2013 to 27/10/2013 (7 days)
• Findings / new knowledge gained :
• Learnt setting up a Accelerometer with Sensor Manager and onSensorChange method
• Learnt to obtain Google Maps API Key
• Learnt display Google Maps with MapView and Overlay
• Learnt to set up Compass and Map Controller on Google Maps
• Learnt to use to Geocoder and GeoPoint to obtain a location's address
• Ability to toggle between StreetView and SatelliteView on Google Maps
• Ability to create PinPoint on Google Maps using ItemizedOverlay
• Learnt to use LocationManager to obtain users current location
• Learnt to use OnLocationChange to obtain location when users move around
• Learnt to use HttpGet on HttpClient to obtain data from website
• Learnt to use JSONArray and JSONObjects
• Ability to read JSON information from website such as Twitter

Plans for next week's task are as follows :

• Start coding for Recipe Hunter Android Application.

Regards,


SAW IU KING

Diploma in Information Technology

Semester 7

INTI International College Penang

Week 9 Summary

The tasks done this week are as follows :

• Watched some tutorials from Android Application Development Tutorials - YouTube for developing Android Application.

• Time spent : 14/10/2013 to 20/10/2013 (7 days)
• Findings / new knowledge gained :
• Learnt Async Task class to load data from local storage
• Learnt Spinner and ArrayAdapters for drop down selections list and check selected item with OnItemSelected
• Ability to hide button with Toggling Visibility feature
• Learnt MediaScannerConnection for updating files for user to use purpose
• Learnt the structure of SQLite Database
• Ability to create a basic SQLite Database
• Ability to insert data into SQLite Database
• Learnt to create Dialog for pop out messages
• Ability to read data from SQLite Database via Cursor
• Ability to obtain specific data from SQLite Database
• Ability to update data into SQLite Database
• Ability to delete data from SQLite Database

Plans for next week's task are as follows :

• Find more Android Application Development Tutorials to learn more coding techniques for developing Android Applications tutorials.

Regards,


SAW IU KING

Diploma in Information Technology

Semester 7

INTI International College Penang

Week 8 Summary

The tasks done this week are as follows :

• Watched some tutorials from Android Application Development Tutorials - YouTube for developing Android Application.

• Time spent : 07/10/2013 to 13/10/2013 (7 days)
• Findings / new knowledge gained :
• Learnt Android Activity Life Cycle
• Learnt to setup ListActivity
• Learnt to create Toggle Button
• Learnt to change text color for TextView
• Ability to setup Email Activity
• Ability to setup XML ImageView for Camera Application
• Learnt to setup RadioButtons in a RadioGroup and OnCheckedChangeListener
• Learnt to enhance Text Activity with Theme
• Learnt to setup Landscape Layout
• Learnt to create Custom Buttons with custom images
• Ability to change font via the Asset Folder for Typeface
• Learnt some MotionEvents and Motion Action
• Ability to use WakeLock to prevent application from sleeping
• Learnt SoundPool for music
• Learnt FrameLayout and SlidingDrawer
• Learnt TabHost to create tabs within application
• Ability to get time information from the system
• Ability to create Simple Browser via WebView
• Ability to hide keyboard in the application
• Learnt to use ViewFlipper to flip page by page in the application

Plans for next week's task are as follows :

• Find more Android Application Development Tutorials to learn more coding techniques for developing Android Applications especially SQLite database tutorials.

Regards,


SAW IU KING

Diploma in Information Technology

Semester 7

INTI International College Penang

Week 7 Summary

The tasks done this week are as follows :

• Completed Learn Android 2 Data, web services, parsing - YouTube tutorial for developing Android Application and learnt some basic data passing and web services techniques on Android Application Development Tutorials.

• Time spent : 30/09/2013 to 06/10/2013 (7 days)
• Findings / new knowledge gained :
• Learnt some simple passing data for calculation purpose
• Learnt to stored default data using SharedPreferences
• Learnt to stored data into Android device Internal Storage
• Ability to read and display out the stored data that had been stored into the Android device Internal Storage
• Learnt to stored data including pictures and audios into External Storage SD Card
• Learnt some basic Remote Database set up using XAMPP and MySQL
• Learnt some basic PHP Scripts

Plans for next week's task are as follows :

• Find more Android Application Development Tutorials to learn more coding techniques for developing Android Applications.

Regards,


SAW IU KING

Diploma in Information Technology

Semester 7

INTI International College Penang