Build a Simple Android App

You do realize that you can slow down videos right? There is a little button where you can slow things down as a decimal of the original speed.

Look around, I can't remember the exact widget.

As for actually getting it, just practice. I don't think I understood Lists, Adapters, Classes, and blah blah until I actually went full steam into a project of mine. Now I'm fairly confident in all of it. The videos help form a good basis, but the actual learning comes from you.

Don't worry, Lucas, just take your time as you make your way through the course, and don't be afraid to repeat videos or slow things down if something isn't making sense. With specific areas that you're unsure about, the forums are a fantastic tool.

I find I often get into a bad habit where I watch videos back to back to back, and I just follow along and type code into my editor without really understanding what the code means or why I'm doing things a certain way. As I've progressed through the Android track, I've made sure to take tons of notes (probably 50+ pages by now) so I'm making sure I understand the concepts more fully before I move on.

As Dhruv suggests, once you get into building your own project, it will be a really interesting exercise because you'll be able to put these skills into practice. Once you finish your first project, consider making a similar app from scratch, or adding a few additional features to the app. My approach right now is to make a few of the Treehouse projects before I go back to try to build my own, but I definitely feel it would stick more if I had started building my own projects on the side earlier on in the track.

Hope this helps!

Parker