Signing Android Application

This video clip explains how to sign an android application when using the eclipse IDE.

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Installing Eclipse Pulsar IDE

Short video clip that explains how to install the Eclipse Pulsar IDE. This is one video out of five videos that explain in five steps how to set up the required environment.

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Installing Android SDK Plugin for Eclipse IDE

Short video clip that explains how to install the Android SDK plugin for the Eclipse IDE. When following the guidelines make sure you enter the correct URL shown at 0:22 timeline: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

This is one video out of five videos that explain in five steps how to set up the required environment.

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Setting Android SDK in our Eclipse IDE

Short video clip that shows how to set the Android SDK in our Eclipse IDE. This is one video out of five videos that explain in five steps how to set up the required environment.

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Android Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - Publishing to Android Market

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 video (part 5.2) Marko is going to show you everything you need to know to get your Android app ready to be published in the Android Market.

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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 - Application Object

Class 3, Part 1. 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 Android tutorial, Marko will show you how to create your own implementation of the Application object, which you can use to make common features accessible to most parts of your Android app.

By the end of this tutorial, you should know how to:

• Create the Java class representing your implementation of Application object
• Register the new Application with the AndroidManifest.xml file

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Android Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - Traceview

In this 40-minute tutorial, Marko will show you how you can use the Android SDK tool Traceview to analyze data and debug issues in your Android application.

By the end of this tutorial, you'll know how to generate log files containing information you want to analyze, and then use Traceview to view that information graphically.

This tutorial will cover:

• A break down of the Android device file system
• The three main partitions in the Android file system: data, sdcard, and system
• Generating trace files from your Android application
• Using Traceview to analyze the data in your trace file, and debug issues in your Android app

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Android Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - Drawables

This 60-minute tutorial will focus on Android drawables and how you can use styles and the draw9patch tool to ensure they look great and scale properly across devices.

Marko will cover:

• Creating and defining styles for drawables in an XML stylesheet
• Applying styles to activities and buttons
• Editing properties with Eclipse
• Using the draw9patch tool to affect how drawables scale

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Android Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - Spicing up the UI

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

In this 50-minute tutorial, Marko will pick up where he left off with in the last session, and show you how to spice up the Android UI by adding graphics, themes and colors.

• Toast notifications 
• Spicing up the Android UI: graphics, colors and resource files
• Resources: folder structure and naming conventions
• Drawables
• Using Eclipse to edit and enhance the UI
• Applying themes and styles to your UI

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Android Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - Android UI

Class 1, Part 4. In this 2-hour tutorial Marko will build an Android app from scratch in-order to illustrate some of the key concepts for Android UI development.

By the end of this tutorial you should have a solid foundation for beginning to work with the Android UI, as well as some best practices for UI development.

Marko also covers:

• Two approaches to Android UI development: Declarative and Procedural
• Views and layouts
• Common view properties
• Units in Android
• Lifecycle of Activities and the Android UI

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