Next tutorial in the android series

Sorry, for the delay in the android tutorial series.  Trying to keep up with the daily grind, as well as, 22 credit hours this semester.  I will hopefully have up the next in the series if not the rest of the series by the end of the weekend.  If anyone has any ideas on what to do another tutorial or series on, please, leave a comment and I will see what I can do.  Currently, I am not sure if the next tutorial will be on android development or something else.  I just finished up an assignment dealing with android development and it was pretty interesting.  It had to deal with creating dialogs and the different types of dialogs that can be created.  You can view the app up on the market place and see if maybe you would be interested in something along these lines.

I am kind of holding off until I get actual free time to devote to a long series.  I was thinking about maybe doing a series on developing a game in C# using XNA, but I would not want to start on it and then have a big gap in the series.  So, until then I may just continue with smaller projects or some general tutorials.  Anyways, I look forward to any suggestions that you all might have.


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Android Tutorial : Tic Tac Toe Part 4

Here is part 4 of the tutorial series on creating a tic tac toe app for the android. In this part we code our main activity. We are now able to play our tic tac toe game... but how can we go about starting a new game? or maybe add in some additional activities and be able to switch to them?

In the next part of the series we will look at how we can navigate and accomplish starting a new game. We will setup a menu that will allow us to start a new game, switch to another activity, and exit our app. We could just put a new game button and be done with the series, but I believe that learning how to setup a working menu will be beneficial.

Android Tic Tac Toe Tutorial Series

Hoping to be able to get the rest of the Tic Tac Toe tutorial completed and up here soon. Looking to have the next part(s) up sometime Thursday or Friday probably. Once I am able to get started on them again I will try to just get them all done and posted without to much of a gap between.



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Android Tutorial : Tic Tac Toe Part 3

In this part of the tutorial we look at how to setup the layout file for our main activity. Next in the series we will look at how to tie together our layout with the previous java code we wrote for the "behind the scenes" work by coding our main activity.

Android Tutorial : Tic Tac Toe Part 2

In this part of the tutorial we look at how to setup the strings that we will be using in the app.  In the next part of the series we will begin work on our layout file for our main activity.

Android Tutorial : Tic Tac Toe Part 1

This is the first part of our tutorial series on making a tic tac toe app for android.  In this part we code the java file that will be used "behind the scenes" to generate the computer's moves and check to see if there is a winner, if the game is a tie, or if there are spaces available to play in.

Android App : Tic Tac Toe Game (Capstone Class Project)

This is an app that was created for my Capstone class.  Requirements were to create a tic tac toe game out of java from an old console tic tac toe example and then port that into an android app.  The app also had to contain a working menu with a contact and about section.  The about section had to contain sound.
Here is what I came up with for the submission, let me know what you guys think.

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Hectic

I have been swamped with college and other work so I have been unable to post up any new tutorials. One of my assignments is to complete a tic-tac-toe game that is easily portable in java and then port it to the android platform. I have the game itself working now, but the assignment requires that there be multiple activites and a menu to switch between them. Once I get everything completed and uploaded to the marketplace I will post here so anyone who wants to check it out can feel free to do so. Also, I can work on putting up a tutorial on the steps taken to complete this if anyone would like to see it.

I will be working on the assignment between other class work. If time allows, I could have it up for review by Friday... But it will be up by Monday if time does not allow.


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C# Tutorial: Simple Dice Game Part 3 (Video)

Part 3 of our Simple Dice Game Tutorial

This is the 3rd and final part of this tutorial series.  I lost audio toward the end of the video and then it came back, so I inserted narration on top of the lost audio to try and explain what was happening.

In this tutorial we will add a second player to the dice game and get the game to compare each persons dice to see if there is a winner or if the rolls tie.  We will be creating a player class and looking at how we can use getters and setters to access and manipulate private data.  Also, we will be looking at how to access public methods from the player class when we are in our form class.

Hopefully the video is easy to follow and can provide some useful information.  Sorry for the audio problems toward the end, but I tried to patch it up and you should still be able to follow along and understand what is going on.

Download the solution file for this tutorial here:  Download Solution

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C# Tutorial: Simple Dice Game Part 2 (Video)

Part 2 of our Simple Dice Game Tutorial:

In this part of the tutorial series we will be adding a label to display our roll results.  We will be basing the results off of a poker hand, with the addition of a five of a kind result.  This tutorial is aimed at helping to better understand using arrays, for loops, if statements, booleans, and switch statements.  The code could be made shorter and optimized.  One of the reasons for making the code a little more lenghty and using different ways to initialize the arrays and using different loops to obtain the results we want is so that you can get some practice using these different tools.

Hopefully, you find this tutorial informative and easy to follow. This is my first tutorial series (2nd actual tutorial), please, leave me feedback on how I can improve. Also, let me know if you would be interested in continuing this tutorial series or starting on something different. Don't forget to +1 and Like this post.

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C# Tutorial: Simple Dice Game Part 1 (Video)

In this tutorial we will make a pretty basic game where a player can press a button and it will roll 5 dice. We will display images instead of numbers to show the state of the dice. As we expand on this tutorial series we will program the game to recognize the state of each of the dice and assign the combine dice a score. We will be treating the dice kind of like a poker hand and will use terms like full house or straight. The only exception would be if all 5 dice landed on the same side and it would need to register that as 5 of a kind.

What you will need to follow this tutorial:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
• Dice Images

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: You can get the free express version here (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express)

Dice Images: Right click on each of the below images and save them somewhere that you will be able to find them later.

Hopefully, you find this tutorial informative and easy to follow.  This is my first tutorial so, please, leave me feedback on how I can improve.  Also, let me know if you would be interested in continuing this tutorial series or starting on something different.  Don't forget to +1 and Like this post.

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