Android Quickstart

Features

• Gradle setup
• Google Maps V2
• Actionbar from compatibility project
• Custom view with attributes
• View Pager with PagerSlidingTabStrip
• Navigation drawer with saved fragment state
• Navigation with inner fragments
• Retfrofit and OkHttp for networking
• A service abstraction using Otto events to pass service responses error
• Preferences activity
• Licences activity
• Application class
• Build types / variants
• Signing release build
• Eclipse integration

Requirements

• Unix-like OS (Tested on Debian Linux)
• Android SDK installed (at least API 19, Google respositories, Android repository, SDK tools, SDK build tools, SDK platform tools, Support library, Google play services)

Running

PROJECT_NAME=AndroidProject PROJECT_PACKAGE_JAVA=org.denevell PROJECT_PACKAGE_NAME=AndroidProject bash quickstart.sh

Eclipse integration

• You must import (and have built) all the projects in eclipse_subprojects into your workspace.
  • You must import them while within in AndroidQuickstart/YOUR_PROJECT_NAME/ directory when using the Eclipse import dialogue, or things will go awry with path directories.
  • Import only 'google_play', 'PagerSlidingTabStrip' and 'android-support-v7-appcompat' and ignore the rest
• You must only then import the YOUR_PROJECT_NAME project

Android Studio integration

• You must remove the 'res' and 'AndroidManifest.xml' symlinks else IntelliJ will complain
• Then import the project as a Gradle project

Todo

• Fragment navigation

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• Take a picture with camera
• Navigation menu, on the right
• Cache service results

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• Swipe to refresh / Loading icon
• Time it takes to show play services licence
• List view with images
• Image downloading and caching
• Checks for connectivity
• Navigation menu sub menus
• Tablet fragment changes
• Espresso imports
• Espresso test
• Robolectric tests
• Product flavours
• Push messaging
• Production key for maps
• Intent service
• Service
• Endless listview
• Staggered listview
• Pull to refresh
• Form validation
• Wizard Page adapter
• Actionbar action menu
• Actionbar tabs drop down
• Actionbar tab icons
• Actionbar share provider
• Actionbar navigate up
• Actionbar split bar
• Fading actionbar