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SIG Android

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This SIG is inactive.

WeekdayTuesday
Time4:00PM - 5:00PM
LocationMac Lab SELE 2254
LeaderLukasz Stempniewicz

About

Have you ever wanted to code your android phone, but maybe you didn't know where to start or who to talk to? Well SIG-Android is here with me, Lukasz Stempniewicz, who will be introducing people to programming with android! We will start from the very beginning and move on from there. This is my first time doing this so I'm not sure exactly how fast everyone will catch onto things, maybe everyone who comes has already programmed android and just wants to explore new features of the newest firmware? Who knows? If the group wants to go in a different direction later on and learn something else we can do that, or we may have a competition of some sort. I have planned the first 7 meetups already.

◖-Original Topic ◖-Added Topic ◖-What was actually done

Week & DateTopics
1 - January 13First week – No meetup
2 - January 20Meetup #1 – Downloading/Installing software
Finished topic, & finished creating virtual devices/created our first app, stuck on debugging physical devices
3 - January 27Meetup #2 – Double checking that people are able to debug on their physical devices
Using Android Studio/Key Concepts/Android Manifest
Finished Topic partially, Key Concept explored was the Activity.
4 - February 3Meetup #3 – Buttons! Event Handlers! Interactivity woo!
Learning XML
Finished Topic
5 - February 10Meetup #4 – Review first 3 meetups so everyone is set up with the basics
Original topics moved over one week
Finished Review
6 - February 17Meetup #5 – Creating multiple activities & firing off intents
!!! INITIAL CREATION of Android Started Kit !!!
Looked into creating the ListView for the Android starter, although there were a lot of technical issues, so no recording available sorry >Topics are moved over one more week
7 - February 24Meetup #6 - !!! INITIAL CREATION of Android Started Kit !!!
Did not do the intended topic, instead we looked over more event Handling
8 - March 3Meetup #[] - CANCELED -
will not be doing android starter kit, instead we will create the activities separately within their own app
9 - March 10Meetup #7 – touch & multi-touch
Went over single-touch mostly, and have now decided to shift the sig-android focus into making a quiz-like app! Please give me your opinion on which category/theme we want the questions to be about on https://docs.google.com/a/uic.edu/forms/d/1E2W2j6-aqGwhiysrptWuYJWQGFi2iepoR-IqhcMLwt8/viewform?usp=send_form
10 - March 17Meetup #8 - Group Project Skeleton
Talked about group project
11 - March 24Spring break
12 - March 31Meetup #9 - Group Project Discussion
Rest of the semesterSig-UX collaboration and working on SAQA(Sig-android quiz app)

If you have a CS account and we use the mac labs, you will be able to download and install Android Studio on the macs, otherwise PLEASE bring your own laptop & android phone or tablet.

I might have some extra android devices to develop on.

Files

https://uofi.app.box.com/s/qdjjxd62piwbdqw8r6yi