https://github.com/victorman/RedditImagesAndroid
I'm not sure if this one is really accessing an API, technically. Though it does request subreddits in JSON in order to display thumbnails of images which doesn't require any authentication.
Saturday, November 7, 2015
REST API WEEK! App a Day 21: Goodreads Authors
https://github.com/victorman/GoodreadsFavoritesAndroid
Classes Used: Service, AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter, XmlPullParser, ContentProvider, ContentResolver SQLiteOpenHelper, Handler, ContentObserver.
I've always wanted to play with the Goodreads API. So here's my first attempt. Responses are in XML only, unfortunately. This makes a request for the books (reviews) in my favorites shelf and lists the authors. Very simple in theory. I was going to do more but I ran out of time.
I finally made some templates files for a SQLite Database, but without any of the provider's URI constants. Just copy the gist code below into a file template.
Classes Used: Service, AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter, XmlPullParser, ContentProvider, ContentResolver SQLiteOpenHelper, Handler, ContentObserver.
I've always wanted to play with the Goodreads API. So here's my first attempt. Responses are in XML only, unfortunately. This makes a request for the books (reviews) in my favorites shelf and lists the authors. Very simple in theory. I was going to do more but I ran out of time.
I finally made some templates files for a SQLite Database, but without any of the provider's URI constants. Just copy the gist code below into a file template.
Friday, November 6, 2015
REST API WEEK! App a Day 20: Facebook Likes
https://github.com/victorman/FacebookLikesAndroid
Uses Classes: FacebookSdk, LoginButton, FacebookCallback, AsyncTask, Thread, BaseAdapter, GraphRequest, JSONObject, JSONArray.
This uses the Facebook Graph API and SDK to display the first page of the user's likes.
Uses Classes: FacebookSdk, LoginButton, FacebookCallback, AsyncTask, Thread, BaseAdapter, GraphRequest, JSONObject, JSONArray.
This uses the Facebook Graph API and SDK to display the first page of the user's likes.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
REST API WEEK! App a Day 19: Weather Map
https://github.com/victorman/WeatherMapAndroid
Classes Used: ContentProvider, ContentResolver, Service, AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter, GoogleMap, Handler
I think I need to learn a lot in regards to what is possible using data that is already out there. So I'm going to make this REST API week. I'll use different API's in all of my dailies.
This one uses openweathermap.org. Using it's cities in cycle feature it grabs current temperatures for 10 cities near your current GPS location and displays the markers on the map.
Classes Used: ContentProvider, ContentResolver, Service, AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter, GoogleMap, Handler
I think I need to learn a lot in regards to what is possible using data that is already out there. So I'm going to make this REST API week. I'll use different API's in all of my dailies.
This one uses openweathermap.org. Using it's cities in cycle feature it grabs current temperatures for 10 cities near your current GPS location and displays the markers on the map.
Friday, October 23, 2015
App a Day 18: Todo with DatePicker
https://github.com/victorman/TodoAndroid
Classes Used: DatePicker, Preference, PreferenceActivity, CheckBoxPreference, SharedPreferences, Preference Manager, OnPreferenceChangeListener, OnPreferenceClickListener
I fought with this one for a good while. I'll say if you're starting a new project it's probably a good idea to store dates as string. If you are storing them as integer's just remember that SQLite assumes your time is in the format epoch time in SECONDs. Not milliseconds, even though an integer in SQLite is 64 bits, same as java's long. Okay just remember that.
Classes Used: DatePicker, Preference, PreferenceActivity, CheckBoxPreference, SharedPreferences, Preference Manager, OnPreferenceChangeListener, OnPreferenceClickListener
I fought with this one for a good while. I'll say if you're starting a new project it's probably a good idea to store dates as string. If you are storing them as integer's just remember that SQLite assumes your time is in the format epoch time in SECONDs. Not milliseconds, even though an integer in SQLite is 64 bits, same as java's long. Okay just remember that.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
App a Day 16: Coursera Android Concurrency Assignment 1
Day 16 is unconventional, I'm going through Coursera's online class called: "Programming Mobile Services for Android Handheld Systems: Concurrency." This is the first assignment from that course. The assignment is to implement a couple of predefined Threads and Runnables and use a java semaphore. The UI and the app structure already existed. Here's the unfinished source.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
App a Day 15: OneTableApp with Parse Login
https://github.com/victorman/OneTableAndroid/tree/login
As when you're doing anything simple in android simply combining yesterday's app with the previous OneTableApp using parse was 'anything other than simple. More build.gradle problems (remove "compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])"). Parse's signUpInBackground wasn't even running the SignUpCallback's done method (Restart your emulator). And somehow one of my AppCompatActivity wasn't using an AppCompat theme (check all of your styles.xml files, all of them).
As when you're doing anything simple in android simply combining yesterday's app with the previous OneTableApp using parse was 'anything other than simple. More build.gradle problems (remove "compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])"). Parse's signUpInBackground wasn't even running the SignUpCallback's done method (Restart your emulator). And somehow one of my AppCompatActivity wasn't using an AppCompat theme (check all of your styles.xml files, all of them).
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