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My version of the app was building (version as of p. 284), but as of the end of p. 294, it fails to build with this error:
e:...
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I’ve got to the end of Ch. 11, and the app runs, with all tabs displaying what they should – at first. After switching around between St...
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@mfazio23
I had the project running as of p. 249, but by the end of Ch. 10 (p. 258), something new has made the program crash when it tr...
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@mfazio23
I have copied / typed in all the code to the end of Ch. 9, but I cannot get the project to build. It keeps failing with the e...
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Hi @mfazio23
I’ve reached the top of p. 177, and I can run Penny Drop both on my real Samsung tablet and on the in-IDE emulator, but I c...
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@mfazio23
Android Studio will not accept anything I do when trying to use the Transformations class, as described on pp. 140-141. Googl...
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I just bought this book to learn about Android development, and I’m already running into a major issue in Ch. 1, p. 20: “Update activity...
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@mfazio23
I’ve applied the changes from Chapter 5 of the book and everything builds correctly and runs. But, when I try to start a game,...
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On page 38, it calls for ediging the PickPlayersFragement class and add the following to the onCreateView() method:
val binding = Fragme...
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I’ve downloaded the sources for the book (dated 2021) after having bought it on Amazon. However, the downloaded sources don’t run in Andr...
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@mfazio23
I had the project running as of p. 249, but by the end of Ch. 10 (p. 258), something new has made the program crash when it tr...
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I’ve got to the end of Ch. 11, and the app runs, with all tabs displaying what they should – at first. After switching around between St...
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@mfazio23
My version of the app was building (version as of p. 284), but as of the end of p. 294, it fails to build with this error:
e:...
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Hi, I have just acquired Michael Fazio’s “Kotlin and Android Development” to learn about game programming for Android. I have a game in p...
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I found an issue in Chapter 7 regarding android:backgroundTint vs app:backgroundTint.
How to replicate:
load chapter-7 from zipfile i...
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@mfazio23
I’m following the indications of the book and arriver ad chapter 10, but the app cannot be compiled due to an error in the Bas...
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I think I might have found a problem involving SwitchCompat, thumbTint, and trackTint.
As entered, the SwitchCompat changes color to hol...
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@mfazio23
Android Studio will not accept anything I do when trying to use the Transformations class, as described on pp. 140-141. Googl...
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The allprojects block listed on page 245 produces the following error when syncing gradle:
“org.gradle.api.GradleScriptException: A prob...
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I just bought this book to learn about Android development, and I’m already running into a major issue in Ch. 1, p. 20: “Update activity...
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I am using Android Studio Chipmunk | 2021.2.1 Patch 2
Build #AI-212.5712.43.2112.8815526, built on July 10, 2022
Runtime version: 11.0....
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@mfazio23
I’ve applied the changes from Chapter 5 of the book and everything builds correctly and runs. But, when I try to start a game,...
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I’ve downloaded the sources for the book (dated 2021) after having bought it on Amazon. However, the downloaded sources don’t run in Andr...
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@mfazio23
I am following along and I have gotten up to adding the data binding items. The project has built alright until I added the da...
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JCenter is depreciated, using this repository is incompatible with Gradle 8.0. Could you please update and add the ‘abl-api-client’ depe...
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Is there an issue with the posted source code file? I’ve downloaded it twice and many of the files are filled with null content (Notepad+...
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Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack - the sentence says “…we can move on to layout_pick_players.xml, where we’ll wrap our…” ...
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Page 111 has:
fun playAITurn(
players: List,
currentPlayer: Player,
slots: List,
canPass: Boolean = false
): TurnResult? =
current...
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I’m running Android Studio “Arctic Fox” 2020.3.1 Patch 2, and I’m embarrassed to admit that I only made it to page 8 before running into ...
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Start building native Android apps the modern way in Kotlin with Jetpack's expansive set of tools, libraries, and best practices. Lea...
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I’m under the impression that when the reader gets to page 136 (“View Data with the Database Inspector”), the code SHOULD be able to buil...
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This isn’t errata per se, but I discovered something unexpected while working through Chapter 5. I’m not sure whether I just misunderstoo...
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Hello Michael,
i have problems with this line on page 78 in version B4.0:
android:entries=“@{AI.basicAI}”
it shows the error message: ...
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Hi Michael,
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android:text=’@{vm.currentPlayer.playerName ?? @string/na}’
produces error
…\PennyDrop\app\build\generated\source\ka...
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Hello Michael,
i think in version B4.0 on page 89 this line is not correct:
this.players.value = playersForNewGame
GameViewModel.playe...
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Hello Michael,
after finishing the Converter function i cannot start the App because function NewPlayer.toPlayer is missing the new attr...
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There is an error when following steps to use the nav_version variable in project’s build.gradle of Penny_Drop.
Following the official d...
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Hi,
in the picture on page 92 turn text and current standings text should be empty because they are not implemented yet.
Keno
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The book says: ‘Click the “Start a new Android Studio project” link’. But there is now such a link. There is a ‘Create New Project’ one.
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Google strikes again… In ArcticFox 2020.3.1 patch 2 (Gradle 8.0), it looks like they changed Gradle’s syntax yet again in a way guarantee...
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I’m not sure whether I just overlooked it somewhere prior to page 190, but when I got to page 190 and added the code at the bottom of the...
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Hi,
on page 117 you only define the implementation for “Fearful Fred”.
To start the app the implementation for all AI’s should be added...
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