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Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Jack Fitzsimons — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:46:58 -0000

Thanks a million this is really easy to follow - I'm not a TOTAL noob at programming but find learning new frameworks can be a bit of a challenge. You made it very easy to follow, allowing me to make it my own and customise etc

Anyway thanks :)

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Android Applications — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:56:18 -0000

Google Android is new to me. As I read this article, it seems that there are many things you can do in here. Good that you share it and to help us to know it. Thanks for this post.

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Wfilla — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:16:59 -0000

I never get past the "application has stopped unexpectedly error." Any ideas on what would cause it? Tried 3 times recreating this project. Happens every single time.

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Wfilla — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:35:09 -0000

I never get past "Day3" because of the error about the application stopping unexpectedly. Any ideas?

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

brettkromkamp — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:18:00 -0000

Hi lol,

You're right, specifically the first part of the tutorial is based on the book "Hello Android" from the Pragmatic Programmers. I explicitly acknowledge that fact in a comment, just below the end of the first part of the tutorial: "I've based a lot of the code in the initial part of this tutorial on what I am reading from the book Hello, Android - Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform, from The Pragmatic Programmers." Said acknowledgement has been there since I published the tutorial. However, the second part of the tutorial is completely unrelated to before-mentioned book and unique to my own learning experience.

But thanks for the comment, anyway.

Brett

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Iol — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:49:02 -0000

Nice copy paste from one of the most famose android BOOKs on the market...lol

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

hyunjungsoh — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:11:59 -0000

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I guess this is just a simple question (I’m such a noob…) I have this custom dialog box that has 3 buttons in it.

Now I want to call an activity from one of the buttons so I tried this:
[code]
public class picturedialog extends Dialog implements OnClickListener {
Button Camera;

public picturedialog (Context context){
super (context);
setContentView(R.layout.picturedialog);

Camera = (Button) this.findViewById(R.id.pdButton1);

Camera.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
dismiss();

Intent myIntent = new Intent(view.getContext(), CameraActivity.class);
startActivity(myIntent);

}
});
...
}[/code]

Then the red squiggly line appears on startActivity(myIntent). Upon hovering on it, eclipse tells me this: “The method startActivity(Intent) is undefined for the type new View.OnClickListener(){}” Ehhh? Please orient me on how to do this properly. Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Rick — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:54:35 -0000

This is excellent. I'm just starting out with Android & Java (after 20+ years of asm, C, C++ & C#) and this is a fantastic introduction. Many thanks for sharing!

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Vinoth — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:55:10 -0000

I am beginner for android.. this tutorial is very easy to learn... I like this very much..

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Travis — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:41:58 -0000

Thanks for the tutorial, this is amazing! However I'm having a problem, after creating the colors.xml file in the values folder it keeps moving the strings.xml out of the value folder and won't let put it back in. Help please?

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Joy — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:39:43 -0000

this is awesomeeeeee .... plz plz plz upload more of these ..... :)

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Sub — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:37:43 -0000

Bloody fantastic tutorial! Excellent explanations every step of the way. I hope to see more from you!

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Varandtin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:12:40 -0000

can I do something that Dialog appearing on About button, has Close button?

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Arulselvam — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:07:21 -0000

how to exit in multiple intent

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

brettkromkamp — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:29:15 -0000

Likewise... thanks for your kind words. Again, knowing that the tutorial has been useful makes the time spent on it worth while.

Cheers,

Brett

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

brettkromkamp — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:27:42 -0000

Glad you enjoyed the tutorial, Codecoaster. As I learn new stuff, I will be writing more. Knowing that it is appreciated makes it worth the while.

Regards,

Brett

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Xyz — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:32:32 -0000

Best tutorial to understand the basics instead of going through the long tutorial at google site. Kudos to you man. Thank you very much for sharing.

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

brettkromkamp — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:41:50 -0000

Codecoaster,

Thanks for your kind words... feedback like this really encourages me to continue with the third part of the tutorial.

Brett

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Codecoaster — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:26:29 -0000

best android tutorial I've seen so far!

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

brettkromkamp — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:15:36 -0000

Hi Girish601,

On the home screen, press the Menu button, followed by selecting Wallpaper... a dialog box appears asking you to select either a live wallpaper, picture, or (static) wallpaper.

Brett

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Girish601 — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:52:11 -0000

Hi
It was a good tutorial.
But i wanted to know, how did you changed the emulator screens.(Emulator Screen no.2)
I liked it, can you tell more on that

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

brettkromkamp — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:37:06 -0000

Hi Jonathan,

I'm going to implement Conway's Game of Life in Flex 4... when it's finished, it will obviously deploy it on to my site. Thanks for your interest.

Brett

Re: Google Android tutorial - Conway's Game of Life

Jonathan — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:44:40 -0000

Be really neat if you had a little mini-demo of life running on the home screen.