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Welcome to The Very Basics of Android ! This series is aimed at folks just starting out on Android, and the goal is by the end of the series, you should be familiar enough with common Android topics to be able to go on to other intro materials. To start, this first article will discuss the terminology we use when talking about the UI of the app: Tasks, Activities, and the Backstack. Go onto your Android phone, and click on the small square button at the bottom of the screen. This screen represents all of the tasks running that you have opened! Here's what it looks like on my screen: As you can see, I most recently opened Duolingo and second most recently opened the calculator app, so I have a Duolingo task as well as a calculator task. Each one of these tasks is just a stack of "webpages", called the backstack . Each one of these "webpages" we call an activity . Here's my artist's rendition of what this looks like: When browsing a webpage, you are clicki...

Life so far It's been a tough 2022 so far. I'm burned out at work, my grandpa is ill, my old car broke down, etc. Hence the general lack of motivation to write anything. I feel like this year will be learning year for me, where I get my ass handed to me by life, and I come out of it battered but more mature. In this vein of learning, I've been trying to institute a few changes in my life to help alleviate some of the things that are going on in my life. Basically, try to stay in control of my life as much as I can. A few basic ones: Work exactly 8 hours a day and push back on deadlines that would require working more than 8 hours a day. Write every so often. In my blog, in my random notebooks. Keep in contact with family. Keep my girlfriend in the loop about my stresses and struggles (she's a psych major!) Always be learning something new. Let's hope everything works out! *knock on wood* Reading "The Design of Everyday Things" In terms of my goal to always...