Android Development Masterclass - AI-Powered Learning for Developers

Gain insights into creating efficient Android apps. Learn about layouts, UI components, lifecycle management, and Firebase integration. Delve into practical coding challenges and quizzes to solidify your skills.

Intermediate

66 Lessons

15h

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This course includes

3 Assessments

47 Playgrounds

12 Quizzes

This course includes

3 Assessments

47 Playgrounds

12 Quizzes

Course Overview

This course covers various aspects of building Android applications, focusing on creating robust and efficient apps. The course is divided into several modules, accompanied by quizzes and coding challenges that will test your understanding of the course. You’ll start with an overview, which introduces the Android platform and its key features. Then, you will learn the various Android layouts and UI components—how to create and use different layouts, fragments, and custom views. Moreover, you’ll practically...Show More

What You'll Learn

Understanding of Android layouts and UI

Familiarity with intents, notifications and services

Working knowledge of leveraging in-app permissions in your Android application

The ability to integrate firebase services in an Android application

The ability to correctly use dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger

Hands-on experience with various jetpack components to speed up your development

Familiarity threading and memory management to optimize your application

Working knowledge of networking, including using Retrofit for REST API calls and Kotlin coroutines

What You'll Learn

Understanding of Android layouts and UI

Course Content

Overview

Get familiar with Android's core concepts and components, progressing to advanced integration.

Course Introduction

Android Layouts and UI Components

Get started with Android layouts, fragments, custom views, and activity lifecycle management.

Introduction to Layouts Creating and Using Fragments Defining Custom Views in Android Activity and Its Lifecycle Management Quiz on Android Layouts

Android UI Components

Examine Android UI components, including navigation bars, dialogs, image handling, menus, RecyclerViews, and WebViews.

Bottom Navigation Bars Overview of Alert Dialog and Dialog Fragments Handling and Displaying Images Options, Context, and Popup Menus Working with RecyclerViews Working with Android WebViews Quiz on Android UI Components

Intents, Notifications, Threading & Services

Apply your skills to work with intents, broadcast receivers, threads, services, and work managers.

Using Intents and Intent Filters Broadcast Receivers Overview of Processes and Threads Understanding Services and Work Managers Quiz on Intents, Threading, and Services

App Permissions & User Location

Solve problems in handling Android permissions and retrieving user location efficiently.

Overview of Permissions in Android Declaring Permissions in the App Manifest Workflow for Requesting Runtime Permissions Fetching User’s Last Known Location Quiz on App Permissions and Location Services

Utilizing Firebase Services in Android

6 Lessons

Tackle Firebase integration for authentication, real-time databases, storage, and cloud messaging in Android.

Assessment 1: Android Core Concepts

Assessment

Lifecycle Aware Components

4 Lessons

Build on lifecycle-aware components to manage UI data and handle lifecycle events.

Android Jetpack Components

5 Lessons

Step through managing background tasks, camera integration, navigation, and data pagination with Android Jetpack.

Data Persistence

8 Lessons

Get started with Room Library for efficient Android database management and migrations.

Assessment 2: Jetpack Components and Persistence

Assessment

10.

Networking

4 Lessons

Go hands-on with Retrofit, Kotlin coroutines, and efficient asynchronous network programming.

11.

Dependency Injection

4 Lessons

Enhance your skills in using Hilt for efficient dependency injection and streamlined Android development.

12.

Performance & Optimization

4 Lessons

Solve problems in performance, battery optimization, and memory management for robust Android apps.

13.

Android App Testing

4 Lessons

Tackle Android app testing, including unit and instrumentation tests, using JUnit and Espresso frameworks.

Assessment 3: Networking, Performance, and Testing

Assessment

14.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Build on creating functional Android apps, like an Instagram clone with key features.

15.

Appendix

3 Lessons

Get familiar with setting up the environment, ADB debugging, and creating a new Android project.

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