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Android Development Masterclass

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.

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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 learn about activity and lifecycle management, and how to handle images and work with RecyclerViews. Next, the course covers Android UI components such as bottom navigation bars, alert dialogs, and web views. You’ll learn about intents, notifications, threading, services, app permissions, user location, and Firebase services—including authentication, real-time databases, storage, and cloud messaging. By the end of the course, you will be able to create functional and well-performing Android applications.

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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

Understanding of Android layouts and UI

Content

66 Lessons12 Quizzes3 Assessments

Overview

1 Lessons

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

Course Introduction

Android Layouts and UI Components

5 Lessons

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

7 Lessons

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

5 Lessons

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

5 Lessons

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.

Add Firebase to the Android Project

Adding Firebase Authentication in the App

Using Firebase Realtime Databases for Storing Data

Using Firebase Storage for Saving Files and Images

Remote Notifications Using Firebase Cloud Messaging

Quiz on Firebase Services

Assessment 1: Android Core Concepts

Assessment

Lifecycle Aware Components

4 Lessons

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

Overview of Lifecycle-Aware Components

Working With ViewModels

LiveData and LiveData Observers

Quiz on Lifecycle-Aware Components

Android Jetpack Components

5 Lessons

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

Scheduling Tasks with Work a Manager

Working with CameraX APIs

Working with the Navigation Component

Using the Android Paging Library

Quiz on Android Jetpack Components

Data Persistence

8 Lessons

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

Overview of Room Persistence Library

Working with Room Database Entities

Implementing DAO with CRUD Operations

Working with Room Databases

Handling Room Database Migrations

Coding Challenge: Automatic Room Migration

Coding Challenge: Manual Room Migration

Quiz on Data Persistence

Assessment 2: Jetpack Components and Persistence

Assessment

10.

Networking

4 Lessons

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

Using Retrofit for REST API Calls

Overview of Kotlin Coroutines

Using Kotlin Coroutines with Retrofit

Networking Quiz

11.

Dependency Injection

4 Lessons

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

Overview of Dependency Injection

Working with Hilt Containers in an Android App

Working with Hilt Modules

Quiz on Dependency Injection

12.

Performance & Optimization

4 Lessons

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

Improving App Performance with Threading

Optimizations for Increasing Battery Life

Overview of Memory Management

Quiz on Performance and Optimization

13.

Android App Testing

4 Lessons

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

Overview of Testing in Android

Unit Testing in Android

Instrumentation Testing in Android

Quiz on Android App Testing

Assessment 3: Networking, Performance, and Testing

Assessment

14.

Conclusion

1 Lessons

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

Conclusion

15.

Appendix

3 Lessons

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

Setup the Development Environment

Set Up Android Debug Bridge (ADB) for Debugging Our App

Creating a New Android Project

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

Course Author:

Vivek Maskara

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