How to create your own slideshow app

By forking this project you should easily be able to create your own slideshow app with one of the available backends. This wiki page will describe the steps you need to do in order to achieve this.

We will use the Flickr public set background for this tutorial

Prerequisite: Android developer environment is setup up (see http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html)

Steps required

1. Fork the project on GitHub

2. Create the project in your IDE

3. At this point make sure the project builds, and your able to run the app on your android device

4. Rename the project to your choosen android package name

5. Update the package definition in the AndroidManifest.xml

6. Search for all //TODO-FORK comments in the code. They need to be updated. The next steps are the currently defined activities that must be done

• SlideshowPreferences -> Update APP_PACKAGE_NAME to match new android package name from 4.

• FlickrPublicSetBackend -> Update with new Flickr API key

• SlideshowActivity innerclass PhotoUrlTask.doInBackground -> Update with id of flickr set (get id from flickrurl)

1. Go through res/values/strings.xml and update the text messages you want (app_name should be updated)

Happy forking