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 ** Grab the source code at marakana.com ** ** UPDATE: We’ve updated this series to include support for Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0): www.youtube.com – we’re releasing a new video every weekday

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