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Dec 12, 2014, 3:44:43 PM via Website
Dec 12, 2014 3:44:43 PM via Website
Hello,
I create that thread to present you a tutorial let you to learn how to create a Weather App step by step. Final app result is already published here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ssaurel.tinyweather
It will be the result you will get if you follow the tutorials step by steps .
Each step is a video tutorial available on Youtube.
Part 1 - Design
In this first part, I show you how to prototype your weather app thanks to free open source tool Pencil. I define also interactions in the application. When you click on action bar menus and when you click on forecasts fragment cards.
Video is here :
Part 2 - Architecture
In this video, I show you the choices made for Tiny Weather's Architecture : swipe views with tabs for UI, Weather data API, data format, ...
Part 3 - Current Weather Fragment
Part 3 is up with following content :
- Android application project creation
- Use of ViewPager pattern
- Weather grabber to get meteo from provider
- Cache creation to cache weather data
- How to get GPS position of user with Google Play Services and without
- Current weather fragment creation to display weather data on
- UI Main activity creation
Next parts will be updated in the next weeks .
If you have questions about the tutorial or feedbacks to improve don't hesitate to ask me here.
Sylvain
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