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Project Feedback! #1

Open codepathreview opened 7 years ago

codepathreview commented 7 years ago

Hello Derek,

Looks good, this exercise is intended in part to give you an introduction to the general rhythm of this course. The course is entirely project-based with an app being assigned each week and then due the following week. Each project builds on the last to help each engineer learn the practical elements of Android development and best practices as quickly as possible. We also do a code review for each submitted project once the program begins.

Great to see you were able to complete some extensions to your app already. The extension tasks available on each project are often the most valuable learnings since they dive deeper into common real-world Android use cases. We encourage you to continue working on extensions to your todo app as a way to further explore Android development.

See if you can expand the functionality of the app or instead work on improving the user interface by experimenting with colors, spacing, styling, icons, etc. Be sure to take a look through our organizing your source files guide for additional tips on structure as well. You can re-submit on the application dashboard anytime and we'll take another look.

We'll be following up with you again shortly to outline the next steps in the admissions process.

codepathreview commented 7 years ago

Hi Derek,

Great job on your initial pre-work, really glad to see you've already tackled many app extensions at this time. These UI enhancements or feature additions are often where the most important learning happens in the course.

The next step is to schedule a short 15-minute phone conversation with us here. Find a date that works for you and confirm a 15-minute slot. Let us know if none of those times work. You can read more about how to prepare for the phone conversation here.

Prior to our chat, can you take some time to research the most common Android Activity lifecycle methods as well as the ArrayAdapter and ViewHolder pattern used when working with lists? We will be discussing these topics with you conceptually in the phone call. We encourage you to search our guides as well as any other sources you'd like.

Once you select a slot, you'll be sent a calendar invite with the phone number to call. Look forward to chatting soon!

codepathreview commented 7 years ago

Great to see you were able to augment your app with many extensions now. As mentioned earlier, the extension tasks available on each project are often the most valuable learning since they dive deeper into common real-world Android use cases.

We'll be in touch with you again soon via email. Let us know if you have any questions about the project or anything in the meantime, you can always reach us at admissions@codepath.com.

codepathreview commented 7 years ago

Hello Derek,

Please update your README.md to use the project templates described here and then re-submit your project through the course system.

codepathreview commented 7 years ago

:+1: Good work getting all required and few optional stories done. A few notes after checking out the code:

One of the most important part of these projects is that you add additional features and tweak the UI / UX because that will provide many more learning opportunities. I would encourage you to complete the projects each week with required stories early and then spend time adding your own UI elements and experimenting with optional extensions that will improve the user experience.

We have provided a detailed Project 1 Feedback Guide here which covers the most common points we see for this project. Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine other ways 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.

Hopefully this first project has given you a better sense of working with RelativeLayout which is a very flexible layout system, probably one of the most powerful responsive-first layout systems available across web and mobile platforms. This assignment also gave us our first introduction to networking, working with APIs and loading remote images. The next assignment will introduce new concept such as accepting user input and navigating between activities but will also reinforce important concepts such as networking, using APIs, handling remote images.

If you have any particular questions about the assignment in general or on any of the feedback, feel free to reply here or or email us support@codepath.com.

P.S. Pls properly added the README in future with features and GIF to your project as described in the submitting assignments guide!