Lesson 1
Build your First App
Build your first app: "Dice Roller" that covers basic Android components like displaying texts and images as well as a tour of the Android tools you'll be using throughout this course.
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Developing Android Apps with Kotlin
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Learn to architect and develop Android apps in the Kotlin programming language using industry-proven tools and libraries. Create apps in less time, writing less code, with fewer errors.
Learn to architect and develop Android apps in the Kotlin programming language using industry-proven tools and libraries. Create apps in less time, writing less code, with fewer errors.
Last Updated March 4, 2022
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Course Lessons
Lesson 2
Layouts
Designing your app's UI is the first step to a great user experience. This lesson covers all the basics of UI layout design. You'll use all the popular view types with a focus on the ContraintLayout.
Lesson 3
App Navigation
Building multiple screens on Android has never been easier with the Navigation library. You'll get to build a fun trivia app using multiple fragments and conditional navigation.
Lesson 4
Activity & Fragment Lifecycle
Understanding the concept of Lifecycles for both activities and fragments is what makes a great Android developer! Have a treat with this delicious "Dessert Pusher" app.
Lesson 5
App Architecture (UI Layer)
With Architecture Components you'll have the power to design even the most complicated app ideas. Combine ViewModels with LiveData to build this super fun "Guess it" game.
Lesson 6
App Architecture (Persistence)
This lesson is all about data persistence, there are many ways to storing data permanently, but with Room things have become even easier than ever before!
Lesson 7
RecyclerView
Everything is better in a list! Recycler View has been - and continues to be - an essential component of any app design. This lesson is all about making your app better with Recycler Views.
Lesson 8
Connect to the Internet
Need some live data in your app? In this lesson you'll use Retrofit to communicate with any API service out there. You'll also use Glide to display images from the web.
Lesson 9
Behind the Scenes
Not everything is displayed on the screen. In Android, there's so much happening in the background and you'll get to build your own background services and tasks in this lesson.
Lesson 10
Designing for Everyone
Coming up with a good design for an app is always hard, but creating a great design is more than just colors and layouts. Let's build an app that is designed for everyone, everywhere!
Taught By The Best
Lyla Fujiwara
Android Developer Advocate at Google
Lyla authored many of the fundamental Android samples and trainings for Android Jetpack, Kotlin and testing. She's also had the honor of teaching everyone from high-school students to senior developers how to make Android apps. These days, she's part of the team bringing you the Google News Android app.
Dan Galpin
Android Developer Advocate at Google
Dan has been on the Android team for over 10 years, working on app design, architecture, performance, and development best practices. He's passionate about teaching, and has been inspired by stories from students over the years about how these courses have helped to change the trajectory of their lives and careers.
Aleks Haecky
Developer Advocate
Aleks is a Writer and Developer Advocate with over 20 years of experience developing media and tools that bring technologies and programming to developers. They believe in the power of education, and Android development as a skill that can change lives.
Sean McQuillan
Developer Advocate
Sean has a decade of experience as a startup engineer in San Francisco where he learned how to build successful apps. Sean is passionate about building high quality products - quickly. When he is not working on Android you can find him fiddling on the piano or crocheting hats.
Asser Samak
Android Developer Advocate at Google
Aser has been building educational Android apps with Udacity & Google for the past 4 years, he enjoys teaching with a focus on best-practices and building a solid foundation at an early stage. Aser loves solving the Rubik's cube which is featured in many of his videos - try to find them all.
Murat Yener
Android Developer Advocate
Murat has been an Android Developer back to Froyo, worked on wearable and other form factor Android devices. He is a code geek, open source committer, Java Champion and the author of Expert Android Studio and Professional Java EE Design Patterns books.
Taught By The Best
Lyla Fujiwara
Android Developer Advocate at Google
Lyla authored many of the fundamental Android samples and trainings for Android Jetpack, Kotlin and testing. She's also had the honor of teaching everyone from high-school students to senior developers how to make Android apps. These days, she's part of the team bringing you the Google News Android app.
Dan Galpin
Android Developer Advocate at Google
Dan has been on the Android team for over 10 years, working on app design, architecture, performance, and development best practices. He's passionate about teaching, and has been inspired by stories from students over the years about how these courses have helped to change the trajectory of their lives and careers.
Aleks Haecky
Developer Advocate
Aleks is a Writer and Developer Advocate with over 20 years of experience developing media and tools that bring technologies and programming to developers. They believe in the power of education, and Android development as a skill that can change lives.
Sean McQuillan
Developer Advocate
Sean has a decade of experience as a startup engineer in San Francisco where he learned how to build successful apps. Sean is passionate about building high quality products - quickly. When he is not working on Android you can find him fiddling on the piano or crocheting hats.
Asser Samak
Android Developer Advocate at Google
Aser has been building educational Android apps with Udacity & Google for the past 4 years, he enjoys teaching with a focus on best-practices and building a solid foundation at an early stage. Aser loves solving the Rubik's cube which is featured in many of his videos - try to find them all.
Murat Yener
Android Developer Advocate
Murat has been an Android Developer back to Froyo, worked on wearable and other form factor Android devices. He is a code geek, open source committer, Java Champion and the author of Expert Android Studio and Professional Java EE Design Patterns books.
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