10 apps you should make when learning mobile programme

If you are learning mobile programme, you can build many apps for yourself. Here are 10 apps that almost everyone can do, some already have detail guide.

1 – Book reading

Reading book app is the most classical app on mobile phone. We change word documents to txt file and use Java InputStream to read. This is simplest and useful app that you must do first.

2 – Music listener

We can make a music listen app for our self. It is simple and easy like read book app. Just put some lines of code in to a class and done. See this post for more details.

3 – Weather information

If you want to check weather in certain city, make a weather app for yourself. Download Android Studio or Eclipse and see this post. If you want to run continuously on home screen or just outside lock screen, you can find easy way to do from this blog.

4 –  Get RSS Feed news

You can read online latest news by create an app to get RSS Feed from a site that you like. Read this post.

5 – Lunar calendar

To make a lunar calendar app, download Java programme to change solar day to lunar day, the author is Mr. Ho Ngoc Duc, he give it free.

The rest is presented as a table of numbers from 1-31 depending on the month on an interface with 7 columns. This is not difficult, just know what the first day of a particular year is, the days before or after that will go ahead or continuously.

6 –  Compass

If you like fengshui, you need a compass to detect your house degree. Just use Google search the code, change to whatever you want, and run it on to a mobile phone that have magnetic sensor. Swift compass you can see here.

7 – Ruler

Many developers like to make a ruler app, we can use it to measure the size of small things. In canvas, we draw lines with 1 millimet dimension. To make it accurate, we need to know phone ‘s physical dimension. Android can‘t  do that in code, so we create a spinner to let user choose screen size. Swift ruler here.

8 – Football update

If you like football, we can make an app to get result and rank update of the football tournament we like. We get RSS Feed from a site with acceptable fee, our app use this to work.

9 – Alarm wake clock

If you don’t like the wake sound of default clock in your phone, just make it yourself, copy sound file to raw folder and use broadcast to set wake time. More detail in this post.

10 –  Fengshui apps

Many peoples like fengshui, they want to know their lucks every year. We can search online all necessary informations and change them to txt file, find beautiful icons to decorate and make an app.