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[Off-topic] paulscode:
Hello, everyone.. it's been a while since I posted on xda-developers. My last big project you guys helped me out with was Mupen64Plus AE, which is really turning out great, BTW!

I wanted to let everyone know about a new project I'm working on to create a training course on how to write Android apps. It will be a complete training course with a course book, exercises, quizzes, test booklet, and answer key, as well as a companion website and support forum. It will be geared toward anyone who is interested in learning how to write professional Android apps, whether they have prior programming experience or not.

Each new topic will first be related to real-world concepts, so they can be understood more easily. Then those concepts will be applied to create a practical, interesting demo app for each subject. By the end of the course, the student will have created several of these demo apps, that they can show off to their friends or potential employers.

I thought I'd see if anyone here has suggestions for topics that could warrant special attention in the book, or ideas for the demo apps that will be created throughout the course. Let me know what you think!

I've also set up a kickstarter campaign to help fund the project, to cover the printing costs and compensate for the time I put into it. Feel free to comment on there as well, if you have useful suggestions for the project!
[Off-topic] wcypierre:
so, what's the cost for the program approximately?
[Off-topic] sikkijazz:
I would like to know this too.
[Off-topic] paulscode:
Well, the reward prices for folks who pledge early on kickstarter are intentionally a lot lower than what I will be selling the completed course for. The price will of course be adjusted over time, depending on its popularity, but here's what I'm considering for a starting point:

$150 :: Course enrolment. This provides full, lifetime access to digital copies of all course materials (including all future revisions) and the support forum

$25 + S&H :: Paperback quizzes/test booklet and answer key

$100 + S&H :: Paperback course book

$200 + S&H :: Hardcover course book

If the course does well, I'll probably also set up e-lectures that students can sign up for. I'd probably shoot for a number that adds up to a net profit close to what I would normally make as a freelance app developer. So, the more students in the classes, the lower the application cost would be. Obviously, that one is hard to estimate a cost for at this point.
[Off-topic] ScusiXDA:
course app development

For the people who have no programming experience will they be in a different class? how does the breakdown work with the varying experience levels?
[Off-topic] Ch-Anjum:
want to know too
[Off-topic] paulscode:
I've thought about that a lot. It really breaks down into two things: how the course is graded, and how the subjects break down in the course book.

For the graded part of the course (and this would apply to enrolling in the lectures to potentially save more experienced students some money), the student will have the option of skipping the first two chapters, and start immediately with the Android-specific part (which will be the main bulk of the course)

For the course book itself, there will be a short first chapter geared toward teaching XML, then a longer than normal chapter to teach Java. These two chapters will assume the student has no prior programming experience, but I'll do my best to keep them as interesting as possible, so it won't be complete snorzville for folks who are experienced programmers but need to learn XML or Java.

The reason for starting with XML, is because it is not really a programming language, and it will get the student into the mindset of using symbols to represent ideas, and starting to think about variables. It won't be the usual "beginners guide to XML", though. As with every chapter, the goal will be to create something practical and interesting. Since HTML is a practical use of XML, the chapter will be focused on creating a humorous web page. As a side effect of creating a web page, they will have acquired the skills they'll need later to create the XML layouts and whatnot needed for their apps. The later Android-specific chapters will start with simple XML usage for the early demos and build on that as the course goes.

The second chapter, on Java, will not just be to teach Java, but to teach beginners how to program, using Java. The reason this chapter will be intentionally longer than most of the other chapters, is because of those two goals. As with the first chapter, I will use humour and other techniques to keep the more experienced students engaged, while not loosing the less experienced students.

The technique of making the subjects engaging will continue through the book, and the goal of each chapter will be to create something practical, interesting, and fun. Simple, cartoonish artwork placed strategically through the chapter will enhance the humour. I've used this technique in previous training guides I've written, and I've always received positive feedback. I'm confident I can pull it off with this project too.
[Off-topic] twitch330:
This sounds great. If I could afford it, I'd be in. I would love to learn how to write apps. Can you point me in the direction of some good free resources to help get someone started?
[Off-topic] Turbotab:
http://code.google.com/edu/introductory_courses.html

A good place to start
[Off-topic] MissionImprobable:
Here's another great free one:

http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2981/Android-Application-Development-Spring-2012#

Obviously this will be more basic than what the OP is talking about going into in terms of project, but this should be a good place to start.
[Off-topic] aravind ashok:
i would like to learn how to write apps too but im from india... :-/ is it possible from here??
[Off-topic] dfreake:
is there any website to sign up to??
[Off-topic] paulscode:
I wrote some examples to demonstrate my basic teaching style.

This first example is what I envision for the first chapter of the course book, which will be teaching XML. This would be the first page of that chapter, and you can see that it makes no assumptions about the student's prior experience. The topic is related to a real-world concept before introducing anything technical:

http://www.paulscode.com/projects/android_course/example_lesson_context.pdf

My second example would be much later in the book, demonstrating my style of explaining the concept clearly before diving into the code. This would be toward the end of the chapter. Obviously by this point in the course, the student will be familiar with Java, so the code parts will be very simple to follow and relate back to the concept being taught:

http://www.paulscode.com/projects/android_course/example_lesson_decisions.pdf
[Off-topic] paulscode:
Is kickstarter still not available in India? I'll put up a forum so you can follow the project outside of kickstarter. Honestly, I'm not very familiar with transactions between the US and India, so I can't really answer your question at the moment. Do you have the ability to transfer money through PayPal to people in the US from over there? If so, you should be able to sign up for the course once I finish it, just not get involved in the kickstarter campaign.

The companion website is not finished yet, but I'll have at least a forum up in the next week or two for folks who want to follow and discuss the project outside of kickstarter. There aren't a lot of backers yet, but hopefully the community of interest will grow over time.
[Off-topic] paulscode:
I've added a new reward tier to the kickstarter campaign. Backers can now pick t-shirts. You choose the size and color for the shirt, and pick from any of the designs below. I may add some more t-shirt designs here as well. If anyone is an artist and wants to help out the project, I'll definitely take more t-shirt design suggestions!
[Off-topic] mengfei:
can overseas guys join this?
[Off-topic] Silrocco:
I'm IN!!!

Okay, I'm in! I have already backed you in Kickstarter, plus the T-Shirt. :good:
[Off-topic] paulscode:
If you can sign up for kickstarter, yes. I understand kickstarter isn't available everywhere (not sure where, you'd have to check)
[Off-topic] liquidfood:
That is allot of money for me. Are you planning to make this cheaper in the future or are you gonna keep it at that price?
[Off-topic] paulscode:
Depends on the demand. If there isn't any demand, it will go a lot cheaper. To be honest, at the current rate, the project isn't likely to be funded anyway. Doesn't seem to even be enough demand to get it initially funded. Oh, well, that's how crowd funding works. It gives you a pretty good indication of whether or not something is likely to be popular or not.
[Off-topic] LambdaCalculus:
<RANT>

Sigh. . . amazing that people WANT to learn this stuff. 14 years ago, I coded my first Java program when all we had was the AWT, no Swing (came in 1.2), and none of stuff we have today.

I was so excited after undergrad and grad school. Then I came into the real world where the money was good. But after 10+ years of non-stop coding, everything starts to look the same. Mindlessly spitting out 300 lines of C++ code a day that are mostly container classes is life-sucking and boring. How many frigging times can I pop up an Apple-style "busy" spinner? Or how many times do I have to stuff something into a Model-View-Controller pattern that doesn't really belong in that design pattern? The worst thing? When some company hands you abandoned OO source code that uses deprecated constructs and you've got to figure out what original "rogue" developer was thinking.

</RANT>

My hat goes off to this guy PaulsCode for being willing to teach this stuff for a penance to strangers on the Internet, and those who have the passion to learn it because they are interested. Because I'll tell you one thing. . . the world needs fresh blood so that there are new cool programs to run on our Android phones!

Good luck!
[Off-topic] lorenzzzzz:
Nice thread, if i can only afford i would be enrolling myself in.
[Off-topic] LoopDoGG79:
Thread lock in 3,2,1.......

By the way IBTL and here is a parting gift
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[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] kishorsidu:
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[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] m.h.mahadi:
its a good launcher,maybe.... but never used this...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] skel4877:
I have two evos and the other got stuck at the HTC boot screen where it says quietly brilliant. I didn't notice it was stuck since I had walked away and it overheated severely. I held the power to turn it off but from that point on I couldn't turn it on at all.

Any suggestions? Is it a lost cause?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] om4:
Try plugging it in and letting it sit a while, let it cool down first, maybe the battery needs to recover, heat can damage the battery
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bog3nator:
what om4 said, it might just have been a heat issue...the same thing happens if your computer over heats, it will reboot/shutdown on its own to cool itself down
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] skel4877:
Thanks for your responses guys.... Unfortunately it still won't turn on, the charging light won't come on either after trying different chargers.

Is there a way to turn on the phone through ADB? I have never tried it but does anyone know if it's possible?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scottspa74:
Isn't it possible to boot thru fastboot using 'fastboot reboot system' ? Provided you can get into your hboot.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] om4:
If they said they could get to hboot but if you can't boot normally then you can't fastboot a reboot either
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] skel4877:
How would I get into hboot? When I plug it into my computer its still make noises and showing up not as the flash memory but something else
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] om4:
Qhusb?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scottspa74:
To get into hboot, power off, then hold volume down while pressing the power button. Then use volume to choose and power to select.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] om4:
I'm misunderstanding something here lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Mac_Gyver:
Yeah, if you plug in your phone to a computer (Linux is a bit better for this) do you get a new device discovery in Windows? Do you have some COM devices or Modems in your Device Manager in Windows?

You might be in the emergency download mode. There can be hope.:cool:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] om4:
That's what I thought they were saying but then another post had me thinking I might be misunderstanding them
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] skel4877:
Yea it does exactly that when I plug it in, do you know what I should do?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] skel4877:
@mac_gyver do you know what I should do?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] skel4877:
Does anyone have any idea what to do? I'm in a bind I don't know where to look >. <
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ludry:
Hello, I wanted to ask what is the best baseband for SK17 compilation ICS 587, I live in Argentina, Corrientes and my company is PEERSONAL :) thank you very much!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pitchblack5691:
Try this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1707269

hit thanks if I've helped!

sent from my smultron
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] whalesplaho:
I guess 77 BB is tha best brov.... But also depends on region!!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pastillero:
Muchos dicen que la mejor es la 77. Yo personalmente siempre estuve con la 72 y siempre me anduvo todo de diez. Soy de Capital Federal.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ludry:
si la verdad que la .72 funciona de diez!te hago una pregunta vos que sabes mas del tema capaz, ahora tengo instalada la ROM HyperbeamCream 4.0, no sabes si se le puede cambiar la baseband a la 72 tambien?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pastillero:
Que baseband tenes ahora? La 72? A cualquier ROM se le puede instalar cualquier baseband( claramente si la ROM es ICS la baseband tambien. Si flasheas la ROM sobre un firmware de ICS .431 vas a tener baseband 72. Si lo haces sobre uno .587 vas a tener .77

De todas formas las basebands se pueden flashear por separado.

Espero serte de ayuda

PD: Viste los goles de Messi?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ludry:
A bueno muchas gracias :) te mando un MP con una pregunta aparte de este tema, espero no sea molestia.

Pd: Lejos es el mejor, menos mal que es Argentino!jajaja
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ScatteredHell:
Please use English.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] initialhit:
hey everyone,

I normally don't post on here because I find the info without needing to, but I can't find this even with google fu, any help appreciated

Problem: Wifi won't turn on

ROMs tried: Orignal Kindle ROM, CM 9 (hashcode make), CM 9 (Energy mod ICS)

Other notes: My methods worked on my other KFs, but not this one.... however its an older version. I was sure to make everything factory default, wipes the two caches, and out of frustration from TeamWin deleted everything on the flash and system (except TeamWin Obviously). I have the Android SDK setup to interface with the device, so if you need me to hit it from there let me know. Everything else works, but a wifi only tablet without wifi is useless in my book.

Thanks once again for any help :) I will go back to google fu'n and head to wall bashing ;)
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
Well can you mount your sdcard in twrp? If so transfer this to your sdcard http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1439916 wipe everything except your external storage and flash it. Maybe this will help isolate whether this is a hardware issue.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] initialhit:
hmm

Thanks for the quick reply, will give this one a shot and hopefully it works :)

Edit/update:

I can mount the device in TWRP, however it will not mount when I boot the ROM. Also adb is apparently not running on the device? Did these commands:

adb kill-server

adb device

and device not listed.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] initialhit:
update

update: got a terminal emulator on the device while I waited for the download (I already had the apk). One thing peculiar is it cant find wlan0... which I can on my other one. Also usb is still a no go unless from TeamWin. Still waiting on the ROM.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] initialhit:
final update

ROM flashed to device, kept having Google android process fail and restart causing major pains... so I couldnt even check the wifi. Using the Kindle Fire Utility I reflashed Gapps and rebooted, it locked up, so I wiped the caches and whatnots and put the ROM in Factory reset mode from TWRP. It looks like for sure the wifi NIC is fried... going to have to just send it back and have them send me another one... one final thing is I am downloading the latest factory ROM for this device and flashing it with it to see if that works, and if not then the people I am sending back to wont know the wiser lol. Thanks for giving ideas nonetheless yall!
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guitarman:
Did the factory ROM flash correct the issue or still a no-go for WiFi?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kibusaki:
Hey guyz.. i solve the issue!..

if your system version is lower the the the latest version:

just download the update img in amazon kindle. using PC. then copy to kinlde directory..and after updating the wifi works..

if latest version:

downgrade the kindle using KFHD_SRT_v1.2.3.zip and a fastboot cable.

then apply the above process.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soupmagnet:
Wrong device. Wrong forum.
[HTC One S] Perpetrator:
Having a bit of trouble here. Any signed zip ive downloaded (CM10 Nightlies, gapps,) cant be opened. Says the file is invalid or something. Any other zips work. I can open them in 7zip and winrar but it gives an error upon extracting... I just want the boot.img so I can flash CM10!

Anyone know what's going on? I've tried downloading the files multiple times. Can't even open them on my phone.

EDIT: It doesnt even work on my phone. Is it just the CM download page that sucks? i managed to get the gapps zip working
[HTC One S] frdd:
Check the md5sum of the zip files. Always a good idea to do this befoore flashing btw. Also get.cm was quite slow yesterday but now its fast again.

If the md5sums fail try redownloading, and maybe consider making sure your hard drive is OK. I'd be pretty wary of flashing a boot.img that might be corrupted and since afaik there is no official source of md5sum for just the boot.img of the nightlies... this is the md5 of 20121010 nightly boot.img btw: 756dda64e359bc3b6ca0f05dc4f1c31f
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] _dan:
ROM IS NO LONGER under my control.

It grew legs and walked to snipers thread.

He will be taking care of it from now on.

Make sure you give him lots of thanks for all of his hard work. :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1981777

Good day.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] _dan:
Mods!

FI27_Remove_CRT_Animations_Signed.zip - 1.30 MB

FI27_Restore_CRT_Animations_Signed.zip - 1.26 MB

Themes!

Stock_Theme_Signed.zip - 12.21 MB

-Thanks to Mattix724 :D.

CleanBlue_Theme_v1.0_Signed.zip - 11.76 MB

MD5 Sum: 47552b3c063ac506f1cd80ee0d3f5b84
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bman55:
first lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] _dan:
Time to go to a poker game :). Let me know what you think! The second post will be themes and addons!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LuvThyMetal:
Hmmm let's see what this is all about!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gamikzone:
How is battery life? xD
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] krisI0N:
She looks pretty fine and smooth as hell :)

Keep up the good work guys!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris-allen:
Download #4....yay!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] _dan:
Extremely good. I haven't had to charge my battery since I flashed it! :highfive:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mattix724:
Lol... Give it a day or so before asking about battery life. Sextape only leaked this thing this morning.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elliwigy:
how is battery?

lol.. seriously? i hope it was a troll that asked! im stickin to the goodness but thanks for the contribution!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] abadasstanker69:
Looks promising :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick_rick:
Nice work _dan. Anyway to remove the hot boot option from the reboot menu? Not a big deal, just wondering lol.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] _dan:
I can try.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] aman1127:
so far so good thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] timmetal6669:
Thank you, so is this just straight sick fi27 with modded reboot power menu? Or does this also have tweaks and such? Oh great job btw, dang you're fast! I was gonna start tomorrow lol. Great job again!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gamikzone:
Is phone good camera? :) just kidding.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] No4g4Me:
does his rom supprot custom boot animation?

---------- Post added at 07:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:14 AM ----------

All kernels for TW (stock) based roms only.

This kernel can NOT be used with

AOSP

/AOKP/CM roms.

Now it says your lockscreen is AOSP, wont this conflict with the kernel? Based on the kernels information isnt it not to be used with AOSP ROMS?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sniper:
The rom is still tw not aosp. It just has the AOSP style lockscreen where you drag the lock to the left or right of the circle to unlock instead of the stock tw one with the circle that appears when you touch and has no shortcuts.

Click here for custom mods for your E4GT
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] milky1112:
Aroma saves you from having to go back into recovery to flash something else (tweaks, kernels, scripts) it'll do it all for you at the end. Kinda handy at times (i use Pimp My Rom with this Rom) and gives you several options for kernel tweaks, memory tweaks, all that goodness) Just an all in one program.

Thanks_Dan for the rom and steady updates!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nathantaylor:
Any fix for YouTube/Netflix/MX video playback problems? Thanks in advance
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bcparker:
Yes, the choppy YouTube playback is my only problem. I didn't see it discussed anywhere else until now and it may be a deal breaker. Anyone else having issues with playback?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] crkdslider:
Thanks for the responses everyone! I am glad I gave it a bit, because the phone is running well now. Definitely not a hot phone. It probably just had something to do with the fact that I flashed through 4 different ROM's yesterday before settling on this one haha. I have never had battery life like this in an ICS ROM... Simply superb, and the clean blue theme makes the phone look amazing. I have not noticed any issues with the ROM at all, except for one issue with Nova Launcher. The scrolling wallpaper stopped scrolling... Is there a fix to this or is it because of that stupid Apple vs Samsung crap they removed with the update awhile back?

---------- Post added at 09:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:01 AM ----------

Can I just install the .zip in recovery over the current one I have without losing my apps? I know I have done it previous ROM's but I just want to double check.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] moparfreak426:
What exactly is aroma installer? LikeI see the past on this page but is it an app or is it built into this ROM?

Can I just install the .zip in recovery over the current one I have without losing my apps? I know I have done it previous ROM's but I just want to double check.[/QUOTE]

I use modified format.zip then flash and keep all apps and data