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Onnowpurbo: New page: In this video I start my new Android tutorial. The last Android tutorial I made is still very popular, but I’m going to try and improve on it here. If you are a beginner to Android and ...

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New page: In this video I start my new Android tutorial. The last Android tutorial I made is still very popular, but I’m going to try and improve on it here. If you are a beginner to Android and ...

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In this video I start my new Android tutorial. The last Android tutorial I made is still very popular, but I’m going to try and improve on it here.

If you are a beginner to Android and don’t know Java you may prefer my Android tutorial for beginners. I’ll be using Android Studio in this tutorial and I show how to install Android Studio here. All of the code follows the tutorial below.

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Code from the Video

MainActivity.java

01 package com.newthinktank.helloagain.app;
02
03 import android.os.Bundle;
04 import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
05 import android.view.Menu;
06 import android.view.MenuItem;
07 import android.view.View;
08 import android.widget.Button;
09 import android.widget.TextView;
10
11 public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
12
13 // onCreate is executed when the activity is created
14 @Override
15 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
16 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
17
18 // Sets the file activity_main.xml as the user interface
19 setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
20
21 // To be able to edit the TextView with our code we have to create it and
22 // bind it to a TextView object. I need to use final because it will be
23 // used in the inner class below
24 final TextView firstTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
25
26 // I set up the Button just like I did the TextView
27 Button firstButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.firstButton);
28
29 // This is how you make the Button change the text in the TextView when it is clicked
30 firstButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
31 @Override
32 public void onClick(View view) {
33
34 firstTextView.setText("You Clicked");
35
36 }
37 });
38 }
39
40
41 @Override
42 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
43 // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
44 getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
45 return true;
46 }
47
48 @Override
49 public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
50 // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
51 // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
52 // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
53 int id = item.getItemId();
54 if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
55 return true;
56 }
57 return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
58 }
59 }

activity_main.xml

01 <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
02 xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
03 android:layout_width="match_parent"
04 android:layout_height="match_parent"
05 android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
06 android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
07 android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
08 android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
09 tools:context="com.newthinktank.helloagain.app.MainActivity">
10
11 <TextView
12 android:text="@string/hello_world"
13 android:textSize="40sp"
14 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
15 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
16 android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
17 android:id="@+id/textView" />
18
19 <Button
20 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
21 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
22 android:text="@string/button_1_text"
23 android:id="@+id/firstButton"
24 android:layout_below="@+id/textView"
25 android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
26 android:layout_marginTop="52dp" />
27
28 </RelativeLayout>

dimens.xml

1 <resources>
2 
3 <dimen name="activity_horizontal_margin">16dp</dimen>
4 <dimen name="activity_vertical_margin">16dp</dimen>
5 </resources>

strings.xml

01 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
02 
04 <resources>
05
06 <string name="app_name">HelloAgain</string>
07 <string name="hello_world">Hello Again</string>
08 <string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
09 <string name="button_1_text">You Clicked</string>
10
11 </resources>

AndroidManifest.xml

01 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
02 <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
03 package="com.newthinktank.helloagain.app" >
04
05 <application
06 android:allowBackup="true"
07 android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
08 android:label="@string/app_name"
09 android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
10 <activity
11 android:name="com.newthinktank.helloagain.app.MainActivity"
12 android:label="@string/app_name" >
13 <intent-filter>
14 <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
15
16 <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
17 </intent-filter>
18 </activity>
19 </application>
20
21 </manifest>

28 Responses to “How to Make Android Apps”

Roni
June 16, 2014 at 5:44 pm

when will your Android challenge start??
I can’t wait to win Samsung Galaxy Note 3 :D
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Derek Banas
June 25, 2014 at 12:27 pm

It just started yesterday. All the information is on my site
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alvin
January 28, 2015 at 3:11 am

can you put a next and previous button for pagination on your site blog post so that we can easily go to next topic using this site? please. thank you
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Derek Banas
February 3, 2015 at 11:01 am

I’ll see what I can do. I only avoided that because some people don’t like having to click to different pages.
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unknown
June 21, 2014 at 1:10 am

great job on doing this tutorials keep it up :D
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Derek Banas
June 25, 2014 at 12:21 pm

Thank you :)
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stephen
July 13, 2014 at 12:08 am

can you help me with this error please and thanks
Waiting for device.
“/Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk/tools/emulator” -avd MonoForAndroid_API_8 -netspeed full -netdelay none

emulator: ERROR: This AVD’s configuration is missing a kernel file!!
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Derek Banas
July 17, 2014 at 8:29 am

In the SDK manager download the ARM EABI v7a System Image
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israel
July 18, 2014 at 3:28 pm

Best tutorials given by the best teacher Dereck Banas
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Derek Banas
July 21, 2014 at 6:05 pm

Thank you :) It is very kind of you to say that.
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Altiano
July 23, 2014 at 8:06 am

i’m going to learn about android apps development, which one should i choose, the new android tutorial or the old one?
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Derek Banas
July 25, 2014 at 6:38 pm

Probably the new one. I’m better at teaching Android now
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Ext
July 26, 2014 at 10:43 am

This is my first time programming anything for android, but I have developed a lot for Java and different languages earlier. I followed your tutorial but I can not get it too work. First it does not like ActionBarActivity so I googled and added dependencies {
compile ‘com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+’
}
too build.gradle but now it is complaing about Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 15 cannot be smaller than version L declared in library com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.0-rc1

What am I doing wrong, is it supposed to be this hard? :D
I have never actually experienced anything thid hard to do a simple hello world program :D
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Derek Banas
July 28, 2014 at 8:49 am

Switch your target API to 19 and make sure you have all the proper files downloaded for 19 in the SDK manager and the errors will go away
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David
August 1, 2014 at 12:32 pm

Derek, are you going to make a video on how to create a menu bar, for example, and add an icon to it? Is this too graphics intensice i.e. GL stuff or is it easier than it looks? Also would you be able to add an action behind that button?
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Derek Banas
August 2, 2014 at 7:29 am

I’ll cover custom layouts, menu bars, etc. later. I already cover the action bar and options menu in part 4.
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Kevin Kesler
October 2, 2014 at 5:51 pm

I think i need to learn the path to programming effectively for android. the app inventor has worked awesome and i have overcome all of the obstacles i set out to. what steps would you recommend?
i have experience with computers mostly by necessity. i did basic in high school. a but of c in college but20 years ago. where should i start now and what should i not bypass? is java what i need to learn?
a little insight could keep me from wasting vast amounts of time learning things that later will be irrelavant. thanks for your thought :)
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Derek Banas
October 3, 2014 at 9:31 am

Yes parts 1 – 18, minus parts 8 and 10 is all you need from my Java tutorial. Then move on to my new Android tutorial and you’ll be ready to go.
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Will
October 12, 2014 at 4:08 am

Thanks for your Tutorial.
It`s great.
cheers
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Derek Banas
October 12, 2014 at 9:38 am

You’re very welcome :)
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sypi
October 15, 2014 at 12:55 am

Thanks for the tutorials! Love the android ones!
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Derek Banas
October 16, 2014 at 5:49 pm

Thank you :) More are coming in the next few days
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dre
November 12, 2014 at 12:49 pm

way kool video. only downside is that it takes for ever to update the sdk manager.
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Derek Banas
November 13, 2014 at 12:16 pm

Thank you :) That is odd that the SDK manager is so slow. I haven’t had that issue before.
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Derick
November 12, 2014 at 9:15 pm

Hi there, I ran the code u given and i got an error.

error:cannot find symbol variable main

execution failed for task ‘:app.compileDebugJava
compilation failed; see the computer compiler error output for details

///////////////////////////////////////
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
/////////////////////////////////////////

the ‘main’ in error is from the code above.

may i know how do i resolve this? thank you.
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Derek Banas
November 13, 2014 at 12:13 pm

Remove all of these from your file import android.R and clean the project
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Ashwin
February 1, 2015 at 11:13 am

Really a huge fan of yours…! :)
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Derek Banas
February 3, 2015 at 6:50 am

Thank you :) I do my best.
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Onnowpurbo: New page: In this video I start my new Android tutorial. The last Android tutorial I made is still very popular, but I’m going to try and improve on it here. If you are a beginner to Android and ...