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4 years ago <img alt="+1" title="+1" src="/images/emoji/unicode/1f44d.png"}" style="vertical-align:middle" width="20" height="20" /> 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.
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.
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.
I would encourage you to also spend more time in future assignments improving the UI / UX as well by reviewing examples of good UI design.
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š Nice work, Denize.
We hope you learned a lot this week with the Flixster app. This is a much more complex app than the initial Todo app as it includes a lot of new concepts. We really appreciate that you completed stretch Stories in addition to the required stories. This is a great way to get the most out of the class. The stretch goals provide a lot of really good learning opportunities.
We have provided a detailed Flixster 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 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, and RecyclerView, which is a superior stand-in for the ListView we used in the Todo project. 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, and handling remote images.
If you have any particular questions about the assignment, feel free to reply here or email us support@codepath.org.