It's been a while!
So, it’s been a while since I last posted. Obviously,
this podcast has not happened. Yet. We are starting
to formulate some plans, as Abbey is finally getting
to be the age where she is starting to use the
computer at home more and more, and has a tech class
at school where she uses the PC (Dell’s running XP).
She is also being more and more exposed to “touch”
based OS’s like iOS, and Android.
Now that Google has released the AppInventor
application -- which is essentially a GUI based RAD
(Rapid Application Development) environment -- I can
start to formulate some plans for the podcast, as we
learn the in’s/out’s of Android, and document our
progress both in the form of web posts on this Web
site, as well as the podcast. Our plan is to build an
app similar to the sample application that comes with
AppInventor, and in the process teach Abbey and
myself some JAVA programming. I, myself, have not had
much experience with JAVA, being that I am mostly a
PHP and MySQL programmer at work. Mostly all computer
languages are very similar to one another, so it
shouldn't be too hard to learn JAVA. With all the
available resources on the Internet, and for Android
development in particular, we shouldn't have any
problem learning JAVA programming for the Android OS.
We are hoping to start learning by doing the sample application this week, so hopefully it will not be long before I post again. I’m also thinking about switching this site over to Wordpress, but the jury is still out on that one..
We are hoping to start learning by doing the sample application this week, so hopefully it will not be long before I post again. I’m also thinking about switching this site over to Wordpress, but the jury is still out on that one..
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