Activity lifecycles are crucial to understand so as to control what happens with your app as the user moves into, through, and away from it, gets interrupted by phone calls or rotates their phone. In this article, we are going to look at the activity lifecycle and see when different calls are made in response… Continue reading Activity Lifecycle
Moving Between Activities – Intents
In my last blog post, we learned about the basic file types, and that when beginning with Android app development, if we want two different screens, we are going to make two different activities with their corresponding layout files. But how do we let the system know we want to transition from 1 activity to… Continue reading Moving Between Activities – Intents
Android App File Fundamentals
It can be quite overwhelming to start looking at code in a new android app you are creating. Even creating an empty app in Android Studio creates dozens of file for you, and yet that empty project actually only produces one screen with the words “Hello World” written. For this post, I want to make… Continue reading Android App File Fundamentals
Self Doubt
Self doubt….it creeps up constantly. And a career change brings so many times where self doubt can feel overwhelming. Did I make the right choice? Am I going to be successful in my new career? Am I really twice the age of my internmates? Is that a sign I am doing this too late? My… Continue reading Self Doubt