A Currency-Conversion App
The app for this week is a currency converter. It will enable the user to put in the symbols for two different currencies and to see how much a certain amount in one currency is worth in the other. It’ll use the /convert endpoint in the API, which takes two currencies and returns a conversion rate.
We’ll be building the app in Android, and we’ll get to exercise a few important parts of the Android API along the way. We’ll see how creating views and layouts works, how to make network requests safely, and how to store data locally in a SQLite database. We’ll also cover how to build views so they work on small and large ...
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