Week 3

This week we made sure the Android SDK and Eclipse were installed and working on all computers. The Android SDK contains libraries, a debugger, and an Android phone emulator. There are also several examples of sample code. Eclipse is the IDE (integrated development environment) that uses the libraries that allow us to program specifically for Android. Libraries are collections of programming code that, when referenced correctly, can be called upon by the programmer. 

We developed a basic outline for the visual design of the app, specifically for the menu interface. Below is a sketch of our current proposed idea.

Clicking on an icon will take the user to a list of options for that section. For example, clicking on the Freshman 101 icon will take the user to a list with the choices "You've Been Accepted", "Before Arriving", "The First Week", and "The First Year."

For this week, team members were expected to watch the first ten videos on The New Boston online tutorials. The first three or four videos walked the user through downloading and setting up the Android SDK and Eclipse. The remaining seven videos gave step by step instructions on how to write a counting application with "Plus One" and "Minus One" buttons. After realizing how valuable the videos were, team members agreed to watch through Video 30 by our meeting Tuesday night and Video 50 by the beginning of next class.

The links to download the developer software and to the New Boston tutorials are posted on the "Resourses" page.