Android App Development for Beginners | Lecture 68 | Working with GitHub

Git and GitHub are two of the coolest technologies around for developers. Git, despite its complexity and rather terse beginnings, is the version control tool of choice for everyone from web designers to kernel developers. And GitHub is the social code-hosting platform used more than any other. On GitHub, you’ll find everything from playful, simple experiments to the Linux kernel itself.

The Fundamentals
First, you’ll need to have a few things installed and available. For starters, I’ll assume you already have Git installed. If you don’t, grab a copy of the latest version for your operating system. If you’re on Linux, you can install it via your package manager instead.

Secondly, you’ll need to be at least partly comfortable with using the command line. Now not everyone is, so if you’re not, don’t worry. This will all be quite straightforward. Nothing too complex. Thirdly, we’re going to create a simple repository consisting of a code file and a README. So make sure you have a directory set aside where you can do this.

Then, with everything prepared, let’s step through a standard set of actions you’ll commonly use on a daily basis. Specifically, we’re going to use init, clone, add, commit, diff, and log. There are a number of other, more advanced actions you can perform. But in the beginning, you won’t need them.