CS 193A: Android App Development, Winter 2019
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This page has various useful links about our course material and about computer science. Do you know a good link that is missing from our list? Email it to us!
Devices:
If you want a physical Android device to develop on, but don't currently own one, there are lots of inexpensive ones you can purchase. I personally recommend buying a tablet rather than a phone, because Android phones tend to cost a LOT of money if you buy them without an actual cell phone contract. Here are some links to Android devices that I have personally bought and verified that they work for installing your own developed Android apps:
- Amazon Fire HD 8 (~$79 Amazon)
- how to set up Fire tablet for developer mode
- link 2
- Lenovo Tab 4 7 (~$79 Amazon)
- Huawei Mediapad T3 (~$97 Amazon)
- Amazon Fire HD 7 (~$49 Amazon)
Books:
This course doesn't have any textbook. But if you feel like buying a physical book to learn more about Android, here are two that we recommend:
- Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, by Bill Phillips and Brian Hardy
- Professional Android Application Development, by Reto Meier
Android:
- Genymotion, a faster Android emulator
- Google Android Developer Docs
- Android API Reference
- Google Android Developer Docs: Installing Android Studio
- Google Android Developer Docs: UI Design
- anddev.org - Android Development Forum
- Android Developers Blog - Blogspot
- Mobiforge - Android Design and Development
- DroidDraw (draw an Android UI in your web browser)
- DroidDraw - Visual Index to the Android Widgets
- ThinkAndroid - How to Position Views Properly in Layouts
Java Programming:
- Oracle's Java documentation
- CS 106A Style Guide (guidelines for coding style and design that we want you to follow on your homework)
- Official Oracle Java coding conventions
- Google's Java style guide
- CS 193A Style Guide (guidelines for coding style and design that we want you to follow on your homework)
Current Events and News:
- (2015-02-22) Android Development News (a collection of links and current events about Android development)
- (2015-02-09) Creating Android Apps with Groovy (a new programming language that is an offshoot of Java)
- (2015-01-28) Ars Technica: Signs of progress: One month with Android Wear 5.0 (a review of Android watches)
- (2015-01-17) Ars Technica: Google won’t fix bug hitting 60 percent of Android phones
- (2015-01-12) WSJ Blog: Google decides to stop fixing security bugs in Android 4.3 web browser
- (2015-01-08) ZDNet: Android Lollipop is out, but almost no one is using it
- (2015-01-01) Reddit /r/android - links and news about Android
Past 193A web sites:
- 2017 Winter (Marty Stepp)
- 2016 Spring (Marty Stepp)
- 2016 Winter (Marty Stepp)
- 2015 Winter (Marty Stepp)
- 2011 Fall (Nick Parlante)
Software:
- Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader (to view PDF documents)
- GIMP (free image editor)
- youtube-dl and ffmpeg (software for downloading/converting media)
Computer Science Major:
- Stanford Computer Science Major information
- University of Colorado - Why Computer Science?
- WICS: Women in Computer Science
- she++: Inspiring women to empower computer science
- Girls Teaching Girls to Code: a program where Stanford Women in Computer Science & Engineering teach, mentor, and inspire Bay Area high school girls
- GirlGeeks (inspiring women in computing)
Further Learning Online:
Other Miscellaneous Links (not directly course-related):
- Hacker's Dictionary
- Building Java Programs, Marty Stepp's Java textbook (shameless PageRank boost!)
- Web Programming Step by Step, Marty Stepp's web programming textbook (shameless PageRank boost!)
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