we will be coding this app at the wits meet up on the 26th from 13:00 to 14:00 UG Seminar Building Wits please come with your laptop because we will be coding together and helping each other at the same time.
what this app is that it has a spinner aka dropdown menu, where you can select your favorite language and then it can show you the best IDE for your favorite language. we will learn a lot from this app from this app you will also be able to create your own android application with buttons input text, toasts and lists, and load data from a data source and... u will be ,learning java as well app looks like this:
- we will be using IntelliJ because it is faster than android studio and offers other great features as you will see at the meetup and android studio is built on IntelliJ
- You will need the jdk
- How to install click here
- JDK download url click here
- look very carefully at Updating your path variables
after you have the IntelliJ and installed the JDK open intelliJ do these->
link to paste in Github repo URL is (https://github.com/divine13/androidAppWitsConf.git)
#Problems If you get any error while trying to run this app please add an issue on our YouTrack issues Tracker or email me on my email dubedivine@gmail.com
If you get a JAVA_HOME not defined error checkout this link here
- the default directory of your java installation is at C:\Program Files\Java\jdkXXX
#Stay in touch we also have a facebook group
you can can contact us on 0641091553 if you need directions or any urgant infomation