Flipulator Free Update-April 29.

Recently, I noticed a bug in the Flipulator Free app. It had to do with my RateThisApp dialog that I created. The purpose behind it was to get users to rate my app on the Play Store. The problem was that when it displayed for the first time, the only way to close it was to click "No thanks." Luckily, I figured out the problem. I would like to take the time to share this with you.

How to Email Your Results In Either Plain Text or Attached as an Excel Spreadsheet.

Recently, we talked about the ability to get data from an Excel spreadsheet into your Android app.  But what if we wanted to email the results of your app and give the user a choice in the matter.  The choice being sending it as plain text or attached as a file (in this case, an Excel spreadsheet).  This is what we will cover in this blog post.

Update on Flipulator Free.

Twenty-one days ago, I published a version of the Flipulator Free app to the Google Play Store.  The changes I added included a low profit alert and an addition of a budget items entry (list of repair items).  Shortly after I published it, I noticed that my current installs began to stagnate and later decrease.  I began to realize that I did not implement the budget items properly.  I originally designed the budget items to be side-by-side like the rest of my entries but that was before I realized that was not a good idea.  This was my original design:

How to Get Data from an Excel Spreadsheet Into Your App.

Today we want to focus our efforts on getting an Android app to open an Excel spreadsheet to pull data from it and populate objects that use the data.  The packages that we will be using are:

How to Build a Simple Game User Interface

We will now turn our attention to building the user interface for the CowsBells game we have been working on.  As a recap, we started with the initial project setup and then we built the Welcome Screen.  The files we will be working with today are:

How to Setup An Welcome Screen for an Android App

The next lesson will now speak to how to setup a welcome screen for an Android app.

The three files we will be working with are:

How to Setup an Android Project Using GitHub Desktop and Eclipse.

The first task you would want to do when you begin to work on a project is to create a project.  I will be using GitHub to place all of your code to show to a prospective employer and Eclipse as the integrated development environment (IDE).

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