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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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66 Lessons

15h

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

Learning Roadmap

66 Lessons12 Quizzes3 Assessments

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

7 Lessons

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

Intents, Notifications, Threading & Services

5 Lessons

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

App Permissions & User Location

5 Lessons

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

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

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.

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

Developed by MAANG Engineers

ABOUT THIS COURSE

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vivek Maskara

SDE @ Remitly | Ex-JPMC, Amazon, Zeta

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