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Let's take a look at the starter files we need to work on the Music Machine app for this course.
If you already have the app as a project from an earlier course then you may want to use that for this course, but you'll need a few things for some of these examples. I'd recommend using the version of the project supplied here:
If you need a refresher on Git and/or GitHub, check out the following material:
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If you already have the MusicMachine app
as a project from an earlier course,
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then you may want to use that for
this course.
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But you'll need a few things for
some of these examples.
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I'd recommend starting with the version
of the project I'm supplying here, but
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the starter code is available on GitHub
if you want to copy new things as needed
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into your own project.
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With that said, check the links in
teacher's notes for the starter files.
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Take a moment to download them or
clone the project from GitHub and
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then we can walk through opening it up for
the first time together.
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Importing a project can
be kind of a headache
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when the Gradle settings have changed,
which they often do.
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If nothing else follow along to see how
to troubleshoot some common issues and
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if you get stuck ask for
help from the treehouse community.
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All downloaded?
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Cool, I've got Android Studio open here.
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As usual, don't worry if your
version of Android Studio
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is a little different
than what you see here.
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Our developer tools
are constantly evolving, but
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the main pieces will still be the same.
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More importantly, the code and concepts
we are covering here are less volatile.
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So even if the tools are a little
bit different, the code and
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ways to solve problems will still apply.
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So I want to open an existing
Android Studio project and
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I cloned mine from GitHub in
the development directory.
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So I'll select the project and click OK.
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Cool.
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You may see a warning up at the top about
the Android SDK if you do just click OK.
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It happens sometimes
because the SDK settings
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in the project of the original author
may be different than your own.
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So the first thing we usually need
to do when we import a project,
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is to fix it's Gradle settings.
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You're probably familiar with this
already, but let's walk through it.
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Down here we see that the project
currently expects a different version
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of the Android build tools.
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We could install this version here,
but it's an older version and
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we usually want it to update
to the latest version.
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So instead, let's open up
the build.gradle file for our app.
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Click on Project and, well, there
are multiple build.gradle files in here so
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how do we know which one to use?
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Well, click into App and
this is the one for our app project so
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double click on build.gradle and here we
see the value for our build tools version.
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Next question, how do we know what the
latest value is that we should use here?
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We can check in the SDK manager.
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So click up here on the little down arrow
for the SDK manager then click on SDK
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tools and up here at the top we have
the Android SDK build tools and, this
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one is telling me that I have an update
available on an early release channel.
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Well, I want to ignore that for now.
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To see my current version, and
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you may need to do this too, click on Show
Package Details down here, and then scroll
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through the list to see what the highest
number is that you have installed.
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So here you see the check
box I have mine as 23.0.3.
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So click OK, go back to the file
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update to the latest version and
then let's sync our changes.
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No, another error!
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This older version of the project
is using an older version
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of the Android Gradle plugin.
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If you see this,
feel free to click Update.
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That will fix the setting and the Gradle
sync should now complete successfully.
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Whoops, we have one more error.
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Go ahead and click on Fix Gradle Wrapper
and re-import the project and
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it'll sync again, and
this time we're good to go.
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Let's run it to make
sure that it's working.
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Click on the Run button, and
I already have my emulator running so
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I'm going to click that and
select Use same selection.
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Click Okay, and now I'll bring my
emulator onto the screen as it loads.
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Okay, so here's our app.
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Looks like it's working.
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We're ready to go.
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Coming up next we'll revisit how to
pass data from one activity to another.
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