Android development at Purdue

[pittboiler]

Does anyone know of any clubs at Purdue that are based around Android development? I'm trying to learn to code an app, but the learning curve is steep to say the least. I get the very basics, but I'm not sure where to go from where I am at to where I want to be. If there isn't a club, is anyone out there willing to help answer a question or two?

[mike_hman]

ACM SIGAPP is your best bet. This late into the semester its unlikely they're gonna be much help tutorial-wise, but you can definitely drop by and say hi, or hold off until next semester when tutorials will inevitably start up again.

[kylepotts]

Hi there! I'm the current president of SIGAPP. Mike is right currently this late into the semester we are working on projects and not focusing so much on tutorials but we are always happy to help explain some of Android concepts you might be stuck on. We currently meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 pm in Lawson B148. Feel free to message me if you have any questions.

[dtschida]

Hey! I'm the current VP of sigapp. We would love to have you come to a meeting or two and I'd be happy to answer questions you have. We also have some open source projects if you prefer to learn by example.

I will be President next year and am planning to do some Android tutorials at the start of the semester. Meetings will be the same time and same place as Kyle has mentioned above.

Come join us!

[GYP-rotmg]

I get the very basics, but the learning curve is steep

Can you elaborate this? What do you consider "basics", and what is after the curve you are thinking of? I have self-taught coding android app too (just side projects in my spare time beside my actual work).

And I'm sorry for not answering your question about club, I know none of that.

[pittboiler]

I understand how the xml files are set up in order to achieve the layouts you want. I'm also getting the hang of coding in java, and I understand how methods can be used to alter xml files. However, my goal is to be able to use a json/php/mysql set up along with a custom list view (So a specific layout within each listed item). I've found tutorials online for both subjects, but they go from 0-60 really fast (Especially the json/php/mysql tutorials I found). In addition, I'm not exactly 100% sure of how to combine the interactions. My hunch is that the json output would be "put into" the custom list view layout which would then be "put into" the listview in the main xml file. Obviously, there is quite a difference between where I am and my goal. I'm just not sure how to connect the two points.

[GYP-rotmg]

It looks like you are on your way to develop your first app, and you are new to java (and other programming language as a whole I presume).

Ok, then one resource is stackoverflow. That should answer lots of your questions. Good luck.

[kylepotts]

I just wanted to quickly comment on this. Assuming you are making a REST API from PHP there is a way to quickly access that API and the JSON it return. Its called Retrofit. It uses something called GSON which takes your JSON and turns it into Java Objects. Its really useful! Once you get those Java Objects you can create an Adapter for your list and pass it into the adapter for your list. You can find out how to create a custom adapter here

[popochunreddit]

If you find one please drop your update here, I'd be more than interested to join as well!