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13 Jul 2015   Updated: 13 Jul 2015   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.50
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Review of online programming course providers
19 Oct 2015   Updated: 19 Oct 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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Tutorial on how to remember the drag and drop position of your RecyclerView list items in Android
9 May 2015   Updated: 9 May 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Fill PDF Form in Android
Database Development
27 Jun 2016   Updated: 27 Jun 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.89
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Realm Database Tutorial For Android – Part 1
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Serverless
17 Sep 2015   Updated: 17 Sep 2015   Rating: 4.79/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.57
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In this post, I will cover the fundamentals of Android SQLite from a beginners perspective. In the next post I will provide a similar introduction to Content Provider and in the last part of the series I will show how to use Android SQLite and Content Provider to build a Note taking app.
20 Nov 2015   Updated: 20 Nov 2015   Rating: 4.82/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 5.80
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Android SQLite for beginners
Mobile Apps
Android
28 Apr 2015   Updated: 28 Apr 2015   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.39
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This blog post stems from my recent experience building my soon to be released Invoicing app. I waited until the last minute to integrate PDF hoping that there is a magical boolean I can set to true and voila, my deeply nested view will be converted to PDF.
4 Aug 2015   Updated: 4 Aug 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Top Android App Review Sites
1 Oct 2015   Updated: 1 Oct 2015   Rating: 4.90/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.68
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This post is part one of two part blog posts where I will provide a step by step tutorial on how to create an Android Notepad App. These two posts are the completion of my post on Android SQLite and Content Provider. If  you have not read those two posts, you may want to do […]
19 Nov 2015   Updated: 19 Nov 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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This post is a step by step tutorial on how to add data persistence to the Android Notepad app we create in the last post.   You are highly encouraged to read the last posts to get the most out of this tutorial especially if you are new to Android development.
31 May 2015   Updated: 31 May 2015   Rating: 4.85/5    Votes: 18   Popularity: 5.97
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Today, I am beginning a four part Android tutorial series where I will provide step by step guide on how to create and publish your first Android app.
2 Jun 2015   Updated: 2 Jun 2015   Rating: 4.86/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.39
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How to create and publish your first Android app
13 Jul 2015   Updated: 13 Jul 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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In app purchase is one of the main monetization options for Android apps. Android in app purchase combines what used to be the “free” version and “paid” version together.
13 Jul 2015   Updated: 13 Jul 2015   Rating: 4.71/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.25
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CodeProject This post is part 3 of a three part Android development tutorial series where I provide a walk-through on how to create and publish your first Android app.
7 Oct 2015   Updated: 7 Oct 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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This post is a step by step tutorial on how to add data persistence to the Android Notepad app we create in the last post.   You are highly encouraged to read the last posts to get the most out of this tutorial especially if you are new to Android development.
31 Oct 2015   Updated: 31 Oct 2015   Rating: 4.20/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.00
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In this blog post, I will show you how to create Android drawing app. This blog post is part one of a two part tutorial series where I will show you how to create simple but delightful Android drawing app.
4 Nov 2015   Updated: 4 Nov 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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This blog post is part two of my Android Drawing App tutorials. It is strongly encouraged that you finish part one of this tutorial before proceeding with this one.
18 Nov 2015   Updated: 18 Nov 2015   Rating: 4.33/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.30
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In this blog post, I will show you how to create Android drawing app. This blog post is part one of a two part tutorial series where I will show you how to create simple but delightful Android drawing app.
20 Apr 2016   Updated: 20 Apr 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Learn Android Dependency injection with Dagger 2
9 May 2016   Updated: 9 May 2016   Rating: 4.70/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.08
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In this tutorial, I will share a practical example of Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern in Android development. MVP is a design pattern and when it comes to Android development some of the examples available online are heavy on theories.
23 Feb 2017   Updated: 23 Feb 2017   Rating: 4.67/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.26
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This post is a step by step tutorial on how to implement Firebase Authentication in Android.
13 Feb 2017   Updated: 13 Feb 2017   Rating: 4.48/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 4.28
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A complete, step by step tutorial on working with Firebase Realtime Database in Android
20 Nov 2015   Updated: 20 Nov 2015   Rating: 4.11/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.24
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Learn the fundamentals of Android development
20 Nov 2015   Updated: 20 Nov 2015   Rating: 4.20/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.53
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Beginning Android Development – Part 2/3
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Windows
11 Apr 2015   Updated: 11 Apr 2015   Rating: 3.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 0.90
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In this blog post ,I will show  a walk-through on how to create a custom Navigation Drawer using the auto generated Android Studio Navigation Drawer template. This also applies if you are working with the ADT plugin in Eclipse.
4 May 2015   Updated: 4 May 2015   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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In this blog post ,I will show  a walk-through on how to create a custom Navigation Drawer using the auto generated Android Studio Navigation Drawer template. This also applies if you are working with the ADT plugin in Eclipse.
Productivity Apps and Services
Sharepoint
19 Sep 2015   Updated: 19 Sep 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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In this post I will provide a tutorial for Android Content Provider targeted at new Android developers. This post is a continuation of my post on SQLite. In that post I ended with a SQLite database created with one table.
Programming Languages
C++
7 May 2015   Updated: 7 May 2015   Rating: 3.80/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.29
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In this blog post, I discuss how to convert Android View to PDF.
Java
15 May 2015   Updated: 15 May 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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You are ready to build your first Android app,  well good luck and welcome  aboard an exciting journey. My first Android app took me a year to build because of the complexities of porting a legacy desktop application to mobile app and dealing with constantly changing business requirements.
XML
13 Jul 2015   Updated: 13 Jul 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Working with date and time is one of the common task Android developers perform.
STL
4 Aug 2015   Updated: 4 Aug 2015   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Beginning Android development

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My name is Val Okafor, I am a Senior Software Engineer with specialization in Android Development. Learning and problem solving is my passion and I share my Android development knowledge through my blog ValOkafor.com.

My Android courses are the courses I wish I had when I started. I teach Android development in the context of a fully developed Android app. I believe that new Android concepts are better understood if they are presented in the context of creating an app from scratch to finish.

I focus on creating Productivity Android apps and besides Android development I have 7 years’ experience as System Administrator supporting Enterprise applications and 2 years’ experience as a Web Developer building websites using PHP and ASP.Net.

I have worked for corporations such as The Home Depot, American Council on Exercise, Legend3D and HD Supply, Inc. I have a bachelor's degree in Information Technology from National University San Diego, California and a master's degree in Software Engineering from Regis University Denver, Colorado.

I enjoy sharing my extensive work experience through my blog, social media.