Apps New programmer please help

syang · Jul 15, 2013

So I just started programming in android (I already know Java)
I am planning to do a simple SAT Vocab app just with some flashcards. Does anyone know how i can start? Should each card be it's own fragment? Please give me some directional guidance so i can research some specific topics. THANK YOU SO MUCH

Unforgiven · Jul 15, 2013

I moved this here to get some better eyes on it.

ErinGoBragh · Jul 16, 2013

You shouldn't need a fragment for each word. Try basing your GUI on the android developer basic GUI tutorial. Work through the whole tutorial, and then change variables around to see what that does to the app.
Then try making a vocab class to hold your words and definitions and instantiate it in your MainActivity. Then write functions to access the data in that class. Access the strings in your GUI using findViewById, instead of hard coding them in the GUI.

Hope that gets you started

syang · Jul 17, 2013

Hi Thank you! I've done a bit research so I'm getting started. So should I just store my data of the words/definitions in a new class? I was researching if there was some data structure that could hold that type of information.

ErinGoBragh · Jul 17, 2013

Could you tell us a bit more about what you're trying to do?

There are many different ways to store data in an app. I like to use a shared data class personally when data will be accessed by different fragments, but this is more complex than needed if there is only one activity.

Pseudo-code:
public class MyData {
private String myString = "Hello"; \\default, or initial value
public String getMyString() {
return myString;
}
public void setMyString(String newString) {
myString = newString;
}
}

syang · Jul 17, 2013

I was just wondering where I could store the words/definitions. I could simply use an array of a new class called VocabWords which could store a word/definition but I was wondering if there was a better way to store them to access it later? (And sorry about hte fragment comments, I'm actually not using any in my app)

ErinGoBragh · Jul 17, 2013

Is this app going to get words from a database, user input or a fixed list you will program?

syang · Jul 17, 2013

fixedlist

out of ideas · Jul 17, 2013

You could just use strings. how many words you gonna have?

syang · Jul 18, 2013

okay. I was thinking of using like a sqlite database? But I guess you're right, I don't reallly have that much data I can just probably store it in one of my classes.

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