First, I'd like to thank you for reading this post. I will try to shove all of my thoughts into as little space as possible. My name is Chasity and I am the girl behind Beyoutiful Designs( Android and digital customization). As of right now, Beyoutiful Designs has only Go SMS Pro themes on Google Play and distributes free wallpapers, Facebook and G+ covers, Twitter Headers, and things of that nature on a blog, Facebook page, G+ business page, Twitter, and Instagram. I began Beyoutiful Designs from a passion and with a dream. A young mother of five taking a leap of faith in making a career for her family out of a love for design. I am completely self educated and continue to seek more, learn more, and know more. I am far from where my dream lies.
Throughout this journey, so far, I have ran into a few difficulties. I struggle to find resources, make connections with others who share my passion, gain followers/likes or visitors to my site, as well as receiving downloads and ratings or reviews on Google Play.
As for my struggle to find resources, I am unsure of what I am found wrong in my search efforts. I should have a massive amount more than I do after all of the countless hours I have spent researching.
Although I am far from my best ability, I do know that my work is of good quality. I always put my all in my work and I place heart in every detail. And I genuinely care. The few ratings and responses I have gotten have been high. 4.75 being my lowest. I have reached out to the few I could find in my niche with little connection made. I've spent a great deal of time. I keep falling short.
This is another outreach attempt. I'm posting here today because I am seeking resources to further educate myself and better my work. ANY material is appreciated tremendously. I am not restricted to any one area of design. I came interested in information such as:
Design materials and elements
Selling wallpapers on Google Play or a blog
Go SMS themes
Go contact themes
Social media
UCCW Widgets
Free WordPress design
Custom fonts
Tips on making profiles/blogs pretty
Fb covers and design
Finding & building connections with other designers
G+ covers and design
Google Play discover ability
AGAIN, THANK YOU! HAVE A BEYOUTIFUL DAY!
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Learn Some Coding Basics and Become a Famous Developer!
POSTED DECEMBER 28, 2013 AT 4:30 PM BY EAGLEEYETOMDIFFICULTY:1
Learn Some Coding Basics and Become a Famous Developer!
Many of us would love to become famous programmers like XDA’s Senior Recognized Developers. But coding isn’t easy, and you need to know the basics and have a working knowledge of whatever language you choose before even getting started. And of course, writing a simple “Hello world!” app is not enough, as you will have to look deeper to create more complicated functions.
If you are looking a good place to begin, you should take a look at the guide written by XDA Senior Member Dark Wraith, who gathered some useful information together and wrote a handy guide with commands for many popular languages like C, C++, Java, Python, and BASH.
With the instructions provided in the thread and added acquired knowledge, you will be able to understand the structure of each language better and hopefully create your first application or modify your favorite ROM. With this guide, you will be also able to edit the overclocking settings and governors of kernels, which is a good practice for the C language.
Dreams sometimes come true, so if you want to start your developer career, make your way to the guide thread and hone your coding skills. We all want to wish you good luck!
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hi Gurus of XDA
my son will be graduating from high-school & he was wondering what is the best course or action plan to becoming a full blown Android Software Developer?
Are there any online course that he can take & how many years do i have to spend for his tuition
many thanks.
Android is the Future
hmmmm i guess no one went to 'formal' Andy school here lol
I'm sure some people have. But for the most part I believe a lot of people on here have gone to the school of hard knocks. They've learned by doing things hands on. Lots of reading, and asking a ton of questions.
yeah I guess so, so much info on the Net.
I guess I'll ask him to take up Java First
Learning to code in Java/C would be your best bet
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mengfei said:
hi Gurus of XDA
my son will be graduating from high-school & he was wondering what is the best course or action plan to becoming a full blown Android Software Developer?
Are there any online course that he can take & how many years do i have to spend for his tuition
many thanks.
Android is the Future
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Wondering the Same, Thanks for asking the question...
I too am interested to make that one "Lucky App" that would change the world hahahahaha
Got time will code if I really knew how
Well I did a bit of looking around. Actually found some interesting options to learning Android. The links are below. Hope these help .
http://training.oreilly.com/androidapps/
http://marakana.com/training/android/android_bootcamp.html
http://developer.android.com/training/index.html
http://www.ledet.com/courses/1451-G...pment course&gclid=CInb7aen468CFbMEQAodvTQxAA
http://www.netcomlearning.com/produ...tml?advid=65&gclid=COrL3pun468CFSQCQAodd3ZjDg
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thanks. i'll try too look into those
soooooo much to read so little time
Check out the video lessons at thenewboston.org he has java, android dev, c++ etc etc.
Hands down the absolute best tutorials on the internet. He explains things in a way that even a child could understand. Highly recommended, he taught me
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daml said:
Check out the video lessons at thenewboston.org he has java, android dev, c++ etc etc.
Hands down the absolute best tutorials on the internet. He explains things in a way that even a child could understand. Highly recommended, he taught me
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Thanks guys for the Suggestions...
No problem, always here to help. Actually thinking about attending one of these myself . Checking into it has me interesred in maybe getting some formal schooling.
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MikROMs Since 3/13/11
Yeah, not a problem
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Also found the links below in the Portal
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/want-to-learn-how-to-program-for-android-start-here/
Rathi
developers.android.com is the best website to learn, there is no course for Android that can cover this variety of topics.
Still after doing hours of research, (only to learn quickly) I recommend wingnity.com/android. This is a paid online course with the following benefits over others.
1. Live classes via GotoWebinar tool
2. 24x7 support to answer technical queries
3. Certificate and a project for CV
4. Cheap - $79
Enjoy.
To become an android developer
Becoming an android developer is purely depends on your son. I know lot of developers who have been working as android developers without completing any course. The mindset of a programmer is completely different from all other professionals. But building a foundation in programming will help him to get stay stronger as a developer. There are a lot of online and on campus courses on android development. I would recommend some introductory courses on java programming rather than directly joining to an android development course. This will help him to get an idea about programming concepts. Then you can choose a course on android development. It will be helpful if you can buy a laptop or PC for him. According to me, I have completed three courses on mobile app development from Cestar college of business, health and technology in Ontario.
Ok so I am learning coding Android apps. I wanted to know if learning math helps in anything other than developing math related apps. I have seen seen cube live wallpaper code and from what i see i think math is required for animation.
But still I would like to know if my math should be strong for this development.
Thanks a lot
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It really depends on what kind of an application you are developing.
You don't need to be great at Math to implement something like a spinning cube. For this specific kind of application you'd need to have some knowledge of matrices and transformations in 3d. Even if you don't know the math behind something, you can always learn it
So, if you are considering developing something that you think needs a good knowledge of some mathematical concepts, I'd say just get to developing it without worrying too much about what knowledge you need. If and when you find yourself stuck on something because you don't understand a mathematical concept, it is at this point that you should worry about learning it.
Another way of looking at this is "We are programmers, not mathematicians".
There are many programmers out there who use math libraries, which abstracts all of the complex mathematics behind the code. Hence allowing them to focus on the application they are developing.
Well, I am a lawyer and not a coder, though I like math very much, I can code in bash, some python, basic skills of c, c++ and java. In Italy all the coders who are 35 or older are able to code in several languages and environments and use math a lot, while younger coders are usually focused on one or two languages and don't use math very much. That's the trend that has been reported by my sister's husband, who's a Linux developer.
Just think that a young engineer of his team isn't able to make simple bash scripts to test a patch written in c++ by creating a couple of symbolic links.
The world more and more requires people highly specialized, but widely ignorant....
My suggestion is always to be curious, because math is the world itself and even when you put in your wifi mask a stupid sequence of numbers 192.xxx and so on, that's math.
I hope I wasn't a bore, but I like to know what is hidden behind what I do
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It really depends on what kind of an application you are developing.
You don't need to be great at Math to implement something like a spinning cube. For this specific kind of application you'd need to have some knowledge of matrices and transformations in 3d. Even if you don't know the math behind something, you can always learn it
So, if you are considering developing something that you think needs a good knowledge of some mathematical concepts, I'd say just get to developing it without worrying too much about what knowledge you need. If and when you find yourself stuck on something because you don't understand a mathematical concept, it is at this point that you should worry about learning it.
Another way of looking at this is "We are programmers, not mathematicians".
There are many programmers out there who use math libraries, which abstracts all of the complex mathematics behind the code. Hence allowing them to focus on the application they are developing.
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Thanks a lot. I will do that. Learn something after I am stuck. That's the best approach I think personally.
lucaoldb said:
Well, I am a lawyer and not a coder, though I like math very much, I can code in bash, some python, basic skills of c, c++ and java. In Italy all the coders who are 35 or older are able to code in several languages and environments and use math a lot, while younger coders are usually focused on one or two languages and don't use math very much. That's the trend that has been reported by my sister's husband, who's a Linux developer.
Just think that a young engineer of his team isn't able to make simple bash scripts to test a patch written in c++ by creating a couple of symbolic links.
The world more and more requires people highly specialized, but widely ignorant....
My suggestion is always to be curious, because math is the world itself and even when you put in your wifi mask a stupid sequence of numbers 192.xxx and so on, that's math.
I hope I wasn't a bore, but I like to know what is hidden behind what I do
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I agree we should be curious but I think if I start learning at once I may soon get bored. That's my opinion though. But I agree after sometime knowing more is better.
I was wondering if anyone is doing this. I have no experience when it comes to programming (at all) but I'm a quick learner and willing to learn when it comes to extra money
I know there are some tricks like pay $50-100 to some developer to create an app exclusively for you and then you sell it on the market and earn cash from it, but I don't really feel like using someone else work for that. I wanna create my own stuff.
I've noticed that some live wallpapers sell over 100k copies over a year, for about $1, that is about $100.000. Which is A LOT more than what I earn per year. And I believe it doesn't take a long time to create a nice live wallpaper. On top of that you can create a bunch of other stuff and earn even more.
So, I wanna know, how hard is it to learn how to create live wallpapers or smaller games/apps for Android platform? Does it work? Is there anything I should know?
I'm currently in the process of learning Android development (apps, compiling ROMs, etc) and I had absolutely no experience in programming before. I've always been a big computer nerd though, so learning programming came pretty easy to me since I had a good understanding of computers and have been using them since a very young age. (I'm now 18)
If you want to learn how to make apps, there are a lot of resources out there to help you learn to write android apps. Here are some of my bookmarks for android apps -
Android App Development Tutorial
Google - Android Training
Some great youtube tutorials
Also if you get serious about it I highly recommend buying a book called Android How to Program. It's a great book and is really helping me gain a much better understanding of the underlying code that makes an app.
Thanks for the input
I'm still looking for the business point of view, as if this is worth doing as side job/part time job..
well, i am also learning how the things work in the android world, and ive made a few soundboards just for testing. But yea its possible i think everyone can think of an app the other thing is to make it. But it looks like everyone is now in the android business and by the time i actually get good with the software and things there might not be a spot for me
TH90 said:
well, i am also learning how the things work in the android world, and ive made a few soundboards just for testing. But yea its possible i think everyone can think of an app the other thing is to make it. But it looks like everyone is now in the android business and by the time i actually get good with the software and things there might not be a spot for me
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There is always place for creativity.
Hello,
First things first, thank you for clicking on the link.
I am a computer science major about 1/3 of the way through my educational career. I have been exploring opportunities each summer through internships and volunteerism how to be a better programmer and become more pragmatic in my approach. Recently, I have drawn up ideas for a UX design concept. Obviously, since I am a noob developer and know nothing about GUI (my classes in school completely skip over this section and it has always interested me). The most I have done was take a data structures and algorithms class which is like intermediate java. I have html experience as well and just started css course in code academy.
I figured this would be the best place to ask since it is a pretty large community of well-versed developers; not just for android but for the windows 8 and apple platforms as well.
What books, websites, mentors do you recommend I learn from in order to enhance my skillset so that I may implement these design concepts I have come up with. Honestly, they are all ideas on paper right now. I want to even slightly implement them so any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time.
Grandadd said:
Hello,
First things first, thank you for clicking on the link.
I am a computer science major about 1/3 of the way through my educational career. I have been exploring opportunities each summer through internships and volunteerism how to be a better programmer and become more pragmatic in my approach. Recently, I have drawn up ideas for a UX design concept. Obviously, since I am a noob developer and know nothing about GUI (my classes in school completely skip over this section and it has always interested me). The most I have done was take a data structures and algorithms class which is like intermediate java. I have html experience as well and just started css course in code academy.
I figured this would be the best place to ask since it is a pretty large community of well-versed developers; not just for android but for the windows 8 and apple platforms as well.
What books, websites, mentors do you recommend I learn from in order to enhance my skillset so that I may implement these design concepts I have come up with. Honestly, they are all ideas on paper right now. I want to even slightly implement them so any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time.
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I would suggest you try Human-Computer Interaction on coursera. Its a free course conducted by a professor from Stanford through the coursera platform. It'll give you a basic understanding of UX, UI and interaction. The course may feel a bit rushed because the assignments may take some time to do. This of course, depends on individuals so some people may not feel rushed and some may feel they need more than the allocated time. It takes about 9 weeks to complete. The latest offering just finished but there should be another one being offered in september or so.
This course is not a certified course and will not gain you credit though. Even so, I feel its one of the best courses on coursera. I know i gained a lot from it. You could read up about it and use the "watchlist" feature so you'll know when the next offering is. Here's the link:
coursera.org/course/hci
Hello XDA,
I would like to know if any developers out there would like to take on actually creating my project. For the past eight months or so I have been drawing up (mainly on Inkscape) an entirely new rom based on the AOSP on the G3 (the phone's getting older, I know). All I have are some basic drawings and an idea, and I want someone that can actually help make the dream real.
What even is this?
I've named this little project of mine Hevena OS. The name idea simply came from a friend. I've watched as the past few years how android and the mobile world in general has stagnated. Many of the things that I have thought of came from my own frustrations about Android. Also, my first devices that I have ever used were Apple stuff. I've always liked iOS' uniformity, but they never have enough customization. Android is the opposite. It has zero uniformity, but great customization. I attempt here to get the best of both. Take a look through a few of the screenshots I've attached.
Other stuff
I've explained things a bit more and I've also laid out a few more ideas on the website I created for it https://hevenaopensourceproject.github.io/index.html so be sure to look at that as well.
I know tech is a divisive topic, so please keep negativity to yourselves. Remember that I'm just a High School Student who has minimal C++ experience and that all of this was made with a bit of free time and some basic Inkscape skills . Some of the drawings, particularly the older ones, are incomplete as well fyi. But as I said before, any developers would certainly be welcome!
home screen drawing - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6CRMrZYTPnjRjBFWVdtQXNkcG8
dialer UI - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6CRMrZYTPnjTmdpVUh6eHcxSEU
notification screen - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6CRMrZYTPnjb25Nekt1ZnFScDQ
music app - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6CRMrZYTPnjZXdfbU5LY2VZZjA
camera app -https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6CRMrZYTPnjRmo4SVhrSG1HeU0
weather app - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6CRMrZYTPnjTVdDc1hCR2NZYWM
Settings app (incomplete) - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6CRMrZYTPnjcW9yNHVLNUlqZkk