teaching machines

U and I: Chris Sippel

Starting Strength App The purpose of this app is to act as a calculator for warm up sets when lifting weights. It was designed around Mark Rippetoe’s(his face is the icon) Starting Strength Program but can be used for any program. The basic function is that a user enters in the starting weight (weight of […]

CS 491 Lecture 5b – Intents cont’d

Last time, few people got the camera working properly. So, today is a continuation of last time. Rather than throw our hands in the air, let’s try to resolve the issues we ran into. Feel free to comment on this post with any solutions to your problems. Stick with your same partner(s). If you have […]

TODO: Dan Zirnhelt

1: A pizza area calculator. So if there are two pizza deals for different prices you can enter the area of the two pizzas (16″, 18″ ect) with the price and see which has a better deal. 2: How to manipulate the phones flashlight if it has one. Kind of like the flashlight app on […]

CS 491 Lecture 5a – Intents

Before class A Before next class: Watch http://youtu.be/2ip2LA3hoR8. Read the Intent resolution section of http://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-filters.html. Making your own web browser: Widgets: WebView, EditText, Button LinearLayouts and weight again Callback for button clicks INTERNET permission Handling URL views with an intent-filter* (research better ways) Getting intent data back out in onCreate() B Before next class: Watch http://youtu.be/-r6-mhFVVDc, Read http://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-filters.html until Intent […]

TODO: Jack Ferris

1.  An online casino app.  I’ve always enjoyed casino applications (specifically blackjack and roulette) and there aren’t many out there that support online play. 2.  A voice/sound manipulation app.  An example is the “Inception” app, which distorts sounds picked up from the microphone. 3.  An application that involves your music.  I don’t have a specific […]

TODO: Chris Sippel

I read the syllabus! But was late 1. A basic Towers Defense game. Enemies move through shortest path through a field, player can place towers that do various actions and block paths. 2. An app that stores basic information (like a spreadsheet of data) onto the devices memory and could reload this information. 3. A […]

CS 491 Lecture 4 – XML layouts and widget event handlers

Before This Class Today we’ll dive into our first widget-driven app. By widget, I mean a stock interface element, like a button, a slider, or text field. Up till now we’ve stuck with Canvas and done custom drawing. It’s time to move on. The app we’ll create is one I pulled from Travis’ TODO homework: […]

CS 491 Lecture 3 – Media and Resource Management

Before This Class A Before next lecture: Watch http://youtu.be/XQOk5Z-c3yQ. Watch http://youtu.be/HhgOh3odhYU. Skim the SoundPool API (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/SoundPool.html) for playing sounds simultaneously. Hey, A. Today we’re going to explore getting Android to play sounds and show pictures. Many of the killer mobile apps these days are rich with media, and in order to reach our first million, we’ll have […]

TODO: Dave Moss

I read the syllabus!… A little late though News feed app – pulls in feeds from websites, categorizes them, suggests feeds/articles based on user preferences/favorites Golf game – I haven’t heard of a really successful golf game so I wanted to try this. It would involve swiping to charge up the golf club to hit […]

TODO : Becky Sippert

I also read the syllabus, but did not post before the 6th. I have five ideas for apps, but not sure they’re very diverse from each other. 1. Tetris, because I think it would be fun to write and would involve graphic animation stuff 2. Some sort of running app that makes use of your […]

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