Android Tutorial : Tic Tac Toe Part 5

Here is part 5 of our tutorial series on developing our Tic Tac Toe Game (finally... sorry for the delay).  In this part we look at how to change the icon for our app and add in a menu that will allow us to start a new game and exit our app.  I hope everyone has enjoyed this series and was able to get something from what we have covered.

Android Community Question : Changing Text Color

This video talks about storing colors in an xml file and then using these values to change the color of text in your layout file and / or in your code.

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TicTacToe Tutorial Delay

The TicTacToe tutorial will pick up after mid-terms are over.  Currently, I am busy preparing for mid-terms and helping put together an app for the local Regional Adult Education Program ( http://race2ged.org/ ).

Hope everyone is doing well, sorry again for the delay.

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.