Android Java course week three

Below are my notes from this week’s course, plus related Android news and information. I’ve also embedded the third part of the Google Android overview 3-part video series at the bottom of this post.

You can read my week one notes and/or week two notes by clicking the appropriate link: week 1 notes | week 2 notes. (The first and second parts of the video series mentioned above are in these first two weeks’ posts, respectively.)

• Today We Load the Public Timeline in our Android App! A FREE @OreillyMedia course with @creativeLIVE – http://bit.ly/androidjava #
• Pragmatic (O'Reilly) has a third edition of "Hello, Android" book http://oreil.ly/9x6jNj #androidjava #
• In this week's class http://oreil.ly/9Lxv0R we'll be using Twitter4j paging, List Header & Footer views and progress bar #
• Twitter4j loadHomeTimeline() http://bit.ly/azQVR3 pulls down the user's main Twitter timeline #
• Information on installing and using the ADT plugin for Eclipse development http://bit.ly/dzxqkD #
• F3 to jump to implementation of highlighted method in Eclipse #
• Listview can have a set of headers (or footers) which are list items that can display special data, metadata, controls, etc. #
• Instructor @thillerson demonstrates long running tasks causing UI unresponsiveness…thus the need for threads, tah dah! #
• Handler makes it possible to coordinate activity between worker threads and the main thread #
• TextView can automatically recognize different kinds of actionable data: web links, phone numbers, email and geo addresses #
• Just getting started with #androidjava? Work through the Hello World example http://bit.ly/cF1GUk #
• Week 3 session summary: Home timeline, load newer and older tweets, header and footer views on a list, threads, links in TextView #
• Homework: Thread line 28 of AuthorizationActivity.java and show progress in main thread, then call finish() when done #
• Amazon Wireless has some schweet Android phones including the HTC Incredible http://amzn.to/9QJWfY #
• Google has posted video recorded at ten #AndroidJava #io2010 conference sessions http://bit.ly/auUX6b for beginners to experts #