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educative-android.tar.gz

Android

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.

Android Development Masterclass

## Introduction

Retrofit is a networking library developed by Square that lets us make REST API calls. The library simplifies downloading JSON and XML responses from the APIs. It also simplifies interacting with both authenticated and unauthenticated API calls.

This lesson will teach us how to make network calls to fetch data from servers and consume that data in our Android applications.


## Prerequisites

Before we get started with Retrofit, make sure that the internet permissions are granted to the application in the `AndroidManifest.xml` file. 

# Introduction

Retrofit is a networking library developed by Square that lets us make REST API calls. The library simplifies downloading JSON and XML responses from the APIs. It also simplifies interacting with both authenticated and unauthenticated API calls.

This lesson will teach us how to make network calls to fetch data from servers and consume that data in our Android applications.


# Prerequisites

Before we get started with Retrofit, make sure that the internet permissions are granted to the application in the `AndroidManifest.xml` file. 

Learn how to make REST API calls using a networking library called Retrofit.

Overview

Android Layouts and UI Components

Android UI Components

Intents, Notifications, Threading & Services

App Permissions & User Location

Utilizing Firebase Services in Android

Assessment 1: Android Core Concepts

Lifecycle Aware Components

Android Jetpack Components

Data Persistence

Assessment 2: Jetpack Components and Persistence

Networking

Dependency Injection

Performance & Optimization

Android App Testing

Assessment 3: Networking, Performance, and Testing

Conclusion

Appendix

Using Retrofit for REST API Calls

Introduction

Prerequisites