[Android App Development] Common Errors with Fish-san

R.java goes missing.

This happened to me quite a lot. In the beginning, I restarted my whole app, copy and pasted all the code into a new project. I found out the solution to this was to right click on the project file>Android Tools>Run Lint: Check for Common Errors. Then restart Eclipse. If that didn't work, then I would check my layout .xml files for errors. Fix it and then clean my project.

Can't find the id name, even though I created it.

I restart eclipse.

Emulator doesn't work.

I don't really remember what I did for mine to work. I tried putting the settings on how a S4 would be like, but that didn't work. So, I tried lowering my settings and the settings I used were these:

Emulators are known to be pretty slow, so I would wait at most 15 minutes until it works.

Every time I make a new project an error pops up, so I closed Eclipse. Then I reopened Eclipse, and it gave me this other error when I didn't do anything.

This happened to my friend when I was trying to teach her how to make an app. Download all the files from the Android SDK manager even though the revisions are all different.

[Android App Development] Fish-San

Another summer, where I don't have a routine schedule. I don't have summer school. I'm not even doing an internship or a job. I have all the time to lounge around and do whatever I want...again. But this summer is different! I have a goal of making at least one personal cs project.

I thought of making an android app for fun. 

It's supposedly a self-help app that gives potentially motivational and inspirational quotes said by original, cute characters drawn by me. 

So far, I'm almost finish! I will post a short entry on what problems that I've encountered and solutions on how to fix it. 

[Introduction] A Brief History of My Coding Experience

Name:
Xiao Li Wu (Primary), Shelley Wu (Preferred)

First Time: 
The first time that I laid eyes on coding was nine-years-old. There was this gaming website called “Neopets” that was popular among students in my elementary school back in 2003. In “Neopets”, players sold items in a store, and also decorated their store by HTML coding. Players can either create their own code or copy and paste it from websites. Back then, I didn’t know much about computers. So, I had no knowledge of the magical buttons called CTRL+C. I grabbed a pencil and paper, then started writing and copying a page-filled of HTML code from websites. I did this multiple times that I eventually saw patterns and typed my own snippets of HTML code for my store.

Fast Forward To College: 
I entered my first programming class in college during my sophomore year at San Jose State University. Since I love computers, I chose the course. I had no prior knowledge of programming when I entered the course, so I was at a disadvantage compared to other students who started programming at an early age. I didn’t even know what programming meant. Heck, I even took over two hours trying to figure out my first homework which was a “Hello, World!” java. Eventually, I got a hang of programming in my first course, and even became the top five contributor in the class forum. The class forum is where students help each other understand Java without showing code.