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Explore the sample app

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- [Instructor] Included in the exercise files for this course, is a sample project that I will be using throughout the next few chapters. You can follow along with this project or use your own if you prefer. Open up "Android Studio" if you do not have it open. And let's open up the sample project and take a look at what it's designed to do. I have it saved to my desktop. And you can get there quickly by clicking the computer looking icon at the top. It's in the folder, "SimpleAstronomyPOD." And you will notice that "Android Studio" detects that it is an Android project because you can see the Droid icon on the left instead of a folder icon. Okay to load the project. Once the project is fully loaded which may take a minute depending upon your machine, go ahead and run it on a device of your choosing using the play button at the top. I have a virtual device already running, which I will switch over to now. This application, as the name might allude to, is a simple astronomy picture of the day, or APOD viewing application. It connects to NASA's APOD API to download and show you a fascinating picture of the universe with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer for that day. Sometimes, it will be a picture and other times it will be a link to a video online. Like today. Today's entry is a video of a flight over Jupiter showing off the Great Red Spot. Jupiter is probably one of my favorites to look at. I actually have a picture of it set as my lock screen background. We are only shown a preview image. But if we click the play button, we will be sent to YouTube to watch the video. If this was not a video, there would be no play button, and instead, we would see an HD icon at the top next to "SOURCE" to go to a high definition version of the image if we want to download it. There is also a button at the top that you can see that goes to the source. This will send you to the original article published on NASA's website. And, later, there will be an "About" page, but that isn't included yet. We will go over that later in this chapter to help demonstrate the use of dynamic feature modules a little later. But, that's it. I've kept it simple so we can focus on what's important. Space, obviously.

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