In the past few posts, I’ve been writing a weather app for Android in the native language using the OpenWeatherMap API – Java. You can check out the prior posts here: The Model that OpenWeatherMap uses. Getting the data from OpenWeatherMap. Writing the UI to display the weather. Linking the UI to the data. It’s…
I’m currently writing a basic weather app for Android using OpenWeatherMap. Thus far, I’ve: Written and tested the model for the data. Written and tested the manager to get the weather data. Written the UI for the front page of the app. Now it’s time to hook up the weather manager API to the UI,…
For the past couple of days, I’ve been writing a weather app that pulls information from the OpenWeatherMap API. I’ve got a model and an API for accessing the data. Now it’s time to write some UI code to show the data. Android has a concept called an Activity. An Activity is basically “something the…
In my last post, I introduced how to write a Java model class to model the OpenWeatherMap API. Specifically, it models the response from the API using the SDK documentation. Today, I’m writing a manager class to implement an SDK for accessing the API, again using the SDK documentation. Let’s start with the basics. You…
I’m moving my attention a little bit towards native development now, mostly investigating Kotlin and Java for Android development. Swift for iOS development is also on my radar. One of the things I regularly do is create small applications to learn a technology. My current interest is producing a weather app. Now, that sounds boring….
Let’s talk about a loaded question. After my recent forays into both React Native and Xamarin Forms, I got asked on Twitter – which is better, React Native or Xamarin Forms? Further, I should answer this for JavaScript experts, C# XAML experts and for developers with experience in both. After all, both produce native apps…
In my last blog post, I created the TaskList app and it worked, despite a couple of bugs. I want to convert it to use the Flux architecture. This architecture is prevalent in the React space and basically says there is one source of truth (the store) for the app. The most well-known flux implementation…
