This course is meant for beginners who have no experience with Android or Java. You will learn the basics of Android programming from scratch. You will be able to start building Android apps by the end of the course.
This class will be held on weekdays (Monday and Wednesday every week) from 6:30-8:30 pm US Pacific time (PST) and/or local time each day beginning June 17 and ending on July 17, 2019.
See at the bottom for Detailed Weekly/Daily Course Schedule with option to check your local date and time if you are in a different time zone.
In this course you will learn basic Android development and programming concepts including Android mobile operating system and basic skills required to become a proficient mobile application developer by using Android development platform. You will also learn Android SDK, Android studion, app creation, main android components, android life cycle and debugging.
This class can be taken by professionals such as those who are interested in becoming android developers. It's helpful if you have at least some Java programming experience. Any inspiring mobile apps developer can also take this course. New application developers can also take this course.
However any one who has no programming background or mobile apps development background will also be able to get a lot of value out of this course.
Unit 1: Get started
Lesson 1: Build your first app
1.1: Android Studio and Hello World
1.2 Part A: Your first interactive UI
1.2 Part B: The layout editor
1.3: Text and scrolling views
1.4: Learn to help yourself
Lesson 2: Activities and intents
2.1: Activities and intents
2.2: Activity lifecycle and state
2.3: Implicit intents
Lesson 3: Testing, debugging, and using support libraries
3.1: The debugger
3.2: Unit tests
3.3: Support libraries
Unit 2: User experience
Lesson 4: User interaction
4.1: Clickable images
4.2: Input controls
4.3: Menus and pickers
4.4: User navigation
4.5: RecyclerView
Lesson 5: Delightful user experience
5.1: Drawables, styles, and themes
5.2: Cards and colors
5.3: Adaptive layouts
Lesson 6:Testing your UI
6.1: Espresso for UI testing
Unit 3: Working in the background
Lesson 7: Background tasks
7.1: AsyncTask
7.2: AsyncTask and AsyncTaskLoader
7.3: Broadcast receivers
Lesson 8: Alarms and schedulers
8.1: Notifications
8.2: The alarm manager
8.3: JobScheduler
Unit 4: Saving user data
Lesson 9: Preferences and settings
9.1: Shared preferences
9.2: App settings
Lesson 10: Storing data with Room
10.1 Part A: Room, LiveData, and ViewModel
10.1 Part B: Deleting data from a Room database
This course is attended by students from across all time zones in US, Canada and countries around the world including UK, many European and Asian Countries as well as Australia. Please check your Local Date and time for the first session and subsequent sessions as well.