Android Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - TimelineActivity

Class 4, Part 2. This video comes from Marakana's 5-Day Android Bootcamp Training Course which Marko Gargenta taught in San Jose, CA earlier this year.

** Grab the source code at: http://marakana.com/f/277

In this tutorial, you're going to learn how to create a new activity called TimelineActivity that will display all the statuses from your friends. It pulls the data from the database and displays it on the screen. Initially, we do not have a lot of data in the database, but as we keep on using the application, the amount of statuses we have may explode. Our application needs to account for that.

We are going to build this activity in couple of steps, at each point keeping the application whole and complete as we make improvements:

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Android Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - StatusData

In the previous tutorial, Class 3, Part 3, you learned how to create a local database for your Android app. Now, Marko will show you how to create the service (UpdaterService) that pulls data from the cloud and then inserts it into your local database.

In this tutorial, you will learn:

• How to create the service that will pull data from the cloud and store it in your local database
• How to verify that your database was created
• How to use sqlite3 - A tool that ships with Android which gives you access to your database

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Android Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - Databases

Class 3, Part 3. This video comes from Marakana's 5-Day Android Bootcamp Training Course which Marko Gargenta taught in San Jose, CA earlier this year.

In this tutorial, Marko will show you how to set-up a SQLite database to store local data for your Android application. The database service will run in the background and periodically update the database to ensure that the data needed for your Android app is relatively fresh.

This tutorial will:

• Introduce you to SQLite
• Show you how to create a helper class that provides a "connection" to the database
• Introduce you to the database schema and its creation
• Cover the four main operations for application databases

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