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amitkasat / tipCalculator

This app allows user to calculate tip amout
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Android Bootcamp Project 2 - Tip Calculator #1

Open amitkasat opened 10 years ago

amitkasat commented 10 years ago

My app is complete.

/cc @nesquena and @thecodepath

nesquena commented 10 years ago

:+1: Looks good Amit! I have provided a detailed Project 1 Feedback Guide here which covers the most common issues with this submitted project. Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine how you could improve your submission. You should consider going back and implementing applicable feedback as well. Keep in mind that one of the most important parts of Android development is learning the correct patterns and conventions.

Great to see you playing around with the UI. I would encourage you to continue spending time in future assignments improving the UI / UX as well by reviewing examples of good UI design.

Hopefully this has given you a first sense of the RelativeLayout which is a very powerful layout system, probably one of the best responsive-first layout systems available across web and mobile platforms.

The next assignment will build on top of the first concepts introduced here and will also introduce networking, api use, handling remote images and navigating between activities.

If you have any particular questions about the assignment in general or on any of the feedback, feel free to reply here or post on the discussion forum.

nesquena commented 10 years ago

I would like to know on the best practices for UI as changing UI through Graphical layout was really a pain.

Yes, you are right. You should probably be using the XML editor and manually applying the relative layout rules as the graphical editor is often more of a pain than a help. Review the relative layout rules and then use the graphical editor to drag on the views you need and apply the rest of the layout and appearance properties by directly editing the XML. This is the same way anyone doing web development professionally builds websites (manually editing HTML). Hope that helps.