Advanced Android App Development

A quick guide to the course outline, and steps to download any of the code samples to follow along with the lessons.

In this lesson, you'll learn all about **fragments**, an essential building block to create apps with a flexible UI. You'll be getting hands-on experience with creating fragments by building an app called AndroidMe. AndroidMe lets a user customize the hair and clothing of an Android figure. After completing the app, you'll know how to build a beautiful and responsive UI for any app using fragments and the power of modularity and reusability!

In this lesson, you'll learn about including external libraries in your application. Libraries will allow you to unlock powerful features with just a few lines of code, as you'll see when you build an app that converts a facial expression in a picture into the closest matching Emoji using the Google Mobile Vision library. By the end of the lesson, you'll know how to find a select a library that suits your needs, as well as the names of a few "must have" Android Libraries.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to make a Twitter-like app known as Squawker. You'll learn how to make an app that receives messages from a server in real-time using a service known as Firebase Cloud Messaging. With these skills, you'll be well on your way to making battery efficient apps that can receive updates from the server in milliseconds!

In this lesson, you'll learn how Android locates its device in the globe using GPS and other techniques. You will get to use Geofences to trigger actions when the device enters or exits a location

In this lesson, you'll learn about Media Playback by implementing the ExoPlayer library in a music quiz app. You'll also learn about background playback, external clients, media sessions and more!

In this lesson you will get to create an app widget that can be placed in the home screen. Widgets are shortcuts that can display updated information from the app and handle click events.

This lesson will teach you all about Espresso, Android's testing framework that simplifies writing UI tests. We will cover testing basic Views, AdapterViews, Intents, and IdlingResources.

This lesson will walk you through all the steps to set up your app for success, publish your app, and continue to grow your audience post-launch in Google Play!