Hello :)

hello, Dominic!

how can I help you today?

Tbh just wanted to say that I finished exploring android 1.3, and started writing my own app using the stuff i have learned

cool!

The book was great and I feel I have learned a lot

I am glad that you found it to be useful!

though I feel that dependency injection explanation in elements of android is much easier to understand I think

that is not surprising

the focus in *Exploring Android* is less on background and more on the things that you need in order to implement the app

for some topics, that works well

others, like dependency inversion, do not work out as well

that's part of the reason for having the paired books (*Exploring Android* and *Elements of Android Jetpack*), so you can get alternative takes on a topic where needed

mmm any advices for first time writing my own app? anything I should pay attention to

that is difficult to answer in the abstract

yeah, that was very helpful haha, sometimes i went from exploring android to elements to coroutines or kotlin to understand something

atm I don't have really any specific questions, but I think they will pop up on the way

sure, and between chats and the Android Developer Discuss board, I can try to help!

thank you :)

so till next time!

have fun! :-)

actually I realized I have a question about searching on site

when I search for something with parenthesis

like

functionname()

it only shows fuctionname entries

am I doing something wrong?

probably not, but it's a limit of Apache Lucene and/or how I implemented it on the site

I can look into tweaking the indexing algorithm to try to handle this better

but, on the whole, Lucene is going to expect parentheses to mean something in the search itself

such as `foo AND (bar OR goo)`

ohh i understand

thank you :)

and adding some kind of glossary would be cool!

that's interesting -- what sorts of terms would you want in the glossary?

tbh atm it is hard to tell because I started to understand the expression on the course of the book

but for example what does it mean when function wraps something

hmmmm...

sometimes for an experienced person something might seem easy and obvious, but for readers it might be harder than expected

on the way of writing my own app ill be revisiting all chapters of the book, I can make a list of terms

yes, if you have some suggestions, send them my way

I think it should be very similar to this one

OK, that's a good resource -- thanks!

i should be the one to say so

another thing, I noticed that on the way of the book

I sometimes forgot the stuff from earlier chapter, it would be cool to mention somewhere that reader should from time to time read previous chapters (repeat stuff)

well thats basically everything I think its neessary other than that book is perfect

for *Elements of Android Jetpack*, I might be able to do that for chapters in the latter half of the book

that would be super cool!

to an extent, I did not think that I needed to do that in *Elements of Android Jetpack* -- I had that sort of "prerequisites" section in many of the chapters in *The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development*, but only for topics that would be basically beyond what *Elements of Android Jetpack* covers

imo, it would be cool if you had recorded the course for udemy (and also have it uploaded on the site).

that is a ton of work

i had done 1 course on udemy and it was at least 3 times worse

and I can barely keep up with the books right now, as I do not have much time to work on them

but, we will see what 2021 brings

it would be cool! I tested the "best" udemy android courses, and those do not have the start to your content

anyway, have to go back focus on my own app :) thank you again for everything!

you are very welcome!