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This lesson includes 36 very short videos, walking through the process of installing the Android Studio Development Platform and developing a basic app that displays a table of weather forecasts for the week. You will have about two hours in lab/discussion section spread over the next two weeks to work on this. This should be enough time to complete the android development environment installation and the app, but if you need more time, you will need to do this on your own time.
This project will be graded in next week's (the final) lab section for your lab-section achievement points. For full points, you will implement the Sunshine App and make two or more very minor modifications to the user interface (your choice! - change some user-interface colors, fonts, sizes, etc). Partial points will be awarded for any progress made on the app. The more progress, the more points.
While working on the app, watch for things that are familiar to you (e.g., object oriented programming techniques, data structures, etc.) and things that are different and unique to the mobile programming world. Have fun.