Prerequisites:
No experience required
Developing Android Apps
Course
Build a cloud-connected Android app, and learn the tools, principles, and best practices of mobile and Android development that you'll apply to your own projects.
Build a cloud-connected Android app, and learn the tools, principles, and best practices of mobile and Android development that you'll apply to your own projects.
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Last Updated March 8, 2022
Last Updated March 8, 2022
Prerequisites:
No experience required
Course Lessons
Lesson 1
Create Project Sunshine
Create your first project with a simple list-based user interface. Discover what makes mobile, Android in particular, a unique environment for app development.
Lesson 2
Connect Sunshine to the Cloud
Connect the Sunshine up to an Internet back-end. Learn how to add permissions, initiate network I/O, and move time consuming tasks off the main UI thread.
Lesson 3
Create New Activities and Navigate Apps with Intents
Structure your app and create more complex Activities. Learn about Android’s Intent framework, and how to use Intents to navigate between Activities.
Lesson 4
Final Project: Stage 1
Lesson 5
Activity Lifecycle and Data
Learn how the Android framework manages the activity lifecycle, how it differs from what you might expect, and dive into the world of persistent storage.
Lesson 6
Content Providers
Learn how to create databases, use Android’s Content Providers to provide an abstraction layer between your data and your UI implementation.
Lesson 7
Hooking it up with Loaders
Learn how to use loaders to asynchronously load data.
Lesson 8
Rich and Responsive Layouts
Create rich, responsive user interfaces that work across a variety of different hardware types and screen sizes.
Lesson 9
Services and Notifications
Learn how the Android framework manages background apps and how to use Services and Notifications to make your app to be active when it’s not in the foreground.
Lesson 10
Project Prep
In this project, you’ll build an app to allow users to discover the most popular movies playing.
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