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Authorize Google+ API in the Google API Console

2:59 with Jamie Huson

Google Play Services are a suite of APIs that come on devices running Google Play Store and are updated every 6 weeks regardless of Android version. They give you access to Google’s extensive cloud services and access the user’s Google account signed in on their Android device. Services like Maps, Google+, Cast, and Ads are available to integrate with your app.

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Android Lists and Adapters

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    [SOUND] Hi, my name is Jamie Huson, and I'm an Android developer at Etsy. 0:03
    By now you've built some apps, but you want to take them to the next level. 0:09
    Integrating Google Play services is a great way to make your app 0:13
    more personalized and feature rich for your users. 0:17
    Google Play services are a suite of APIs that come on devices 0:21
    running Google Play Store. 0:24
    They're updated every six weeks regardless of Android version. 0:26
    They give you access to Google's extensive cloud services and 0:30
    access to the user's Google account already signed in on their Android device. 0:34
    Services like Maps, Google Plus, Cast, and 0:38
    Ads are all available to integrate into your app. 0:42
    To learn how to integrate Google Play services, 0:45
    we're going to built an app to browse and share listings you find on Etsy. 0:48
    We'll be interacting with APIs, displaying images, and using recycler view. 0:52
    If you're unfamiliar with any of those topics, 0:57
    there's a link in the teacher's notes to courses you'll want to take first. 1:00
    Okay, so let's begin by creating a project in Android Studio. 1:04
    I'm going to use the wizard and 1:08
    select all the defaults to get a project started quickly. 1:09
    We're here in Android Studio, and 1:14
    we're just going to create a new project using the new project wizard. 1:15
    We just have a few fields we need to fill out. 1:20
    The first one is the application name, and for this we're just gonna use 1:22
    the name recommendations, and the company domain is the same as the package name. 1:27
    And we're just gonna use 1:33
    com.treehouse.android.samples.googleplays- ervices. 1:35
    And I'm just going to go ahead and copy that and 1:43
    use the same value as our package name. 1:45
    The last is a project location. 1:50
    This is where the project will reside on your computer. 1:52
    Here I've just chosen to put it in Projects > Samples > Recommendations. 1:56
    Just click next and we're gonna use all the defaults, so 2:00
    we'll just continue by clicking next. 2:03
    And you can go ahead and chose the default again, blank activity, hitting next. 2:06
    And I'm just gonna stick with the defaults, main activity. 2:11
    Hit finish and this will create our new project. 2:15
    Our project's gonna initialize and when it's done, 2:18
    you're gonna see here that it's given us a few sample files to start out with. 2:21
    And I'm gonna make this full screen, so that we can see it better. 2:24
    Okay, let's go ahead and just run this, and make sure that everything was built 2:28
    correctly, and we have a starter project to work with. 2:32
    You'll know your app is running, because after you hit run, at the bottom, 2:35
    the Gradle build file will start to build and 2:39
    there'll be a little indicator for you. 2:41
    So let's go ahead and hit play, and we can see we have an emulator available for us, 2:43
    so let's go ahead and choose this device to run. 2:47
    Here we can see our app started up, and we know this is our app running, 2:52
    cuz we called it recommendations, and it looks good to go. 2:55

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