Android app development for beginners (with Kotlin)

Description

* In this course, you will learn how to write Android apps from scratch

* No prerequisite is required

* The obvious point about this course is that it is exercise-based to make sure you will understand and use the course materials correctly

* How to use Kotlin to write useful Android applications

* You do not need to be an experienced programmer to learn Android development. All the basics are part of this course.

* You will learn how to install and setting up tools

* The Tip Calculator app that teaches you how to write your first Android application

* The control flow that enables you to write codes that may be executed or not based on conditions

* You will learn how to write reusable codes by writing your own functions

* You will learn how to store related values and information by using collections

* The English Stories app that teaches you about Activities and List Views

* The My Notes app which teaches you about SQLite database

* The Best Quotes app that teaches you how to use Recycler View instead of List View to get more performance

* You will learn how to use animations in your apps

* You will learn how to publish your apps

* Also you will learn about the best practices

What You Will Learn!

• You will learn how to install tools
• You will learn Kotlin for Android
• You will learn how to develop Android apps
• You will learn how to Implement 4 real apps
• You will learn how to use database in your apps
• You will learn how to publish your apps on Google Play
• 1- Installing and Setting Up Tools
• Introcucing tools (IDE + Android SDK + Emulator + JDK)
• How to download and install required tools
• Creating a new Android Studio project
• How to change the font of code editor
• What is an activity
• What is androidmanifest file
• Developing your first Android app
• Attributes panel
• Code completion list
• Displaying a toast
• Running your app on an emulator
• Examining different parts of an emulator
• Send sms and phone calls between two emulators
• Enabling directional pad
• Cloud-based testing
• Installing Google USB driver
• Enabling developr options
• Connecting a real device to the Android Studio
• 2- Kotlin _ Say Hello to Basics
• Int data type
• Declaring and initializing variables
• Single line comment
• var vs val
• print() function
• Floating point data type
• Boolean data type
• String data type
• Type inference system
• Naming conventions (Camel Case)
• Data member and function member
• dec() function
• compareTo() function
• Intellisence
• Argument
• replace(string) function
• replace(char) function
• char data type
• toInt() function
• toIntOrNull() function
• NumberFormatException
• toFloatOrNull() function
• What is Null?
• Kotlin Nullable types
• Arithmetic operators
• Operator precedence
• Assignment operators
• readLine() function
• 3- App ( Tip Calculator ) + Android Basic Views
• TextView
• Seekbar
• EditText
• Button
• Set constraints for views
• Resolving the "Hardcoded strings" warning
• Converting text to number
• Working with seekbar's listeners (setOnSeekBarChangeListener)
• Concatenating strings, variables and expressions with the + operator
• Concatenating strings, variables and expressions with String Templates
• 4- Kotlin _ Control Flow
• If expression
• If Else expression
• Relational operators
• Gutter area
• Debugging the apps by using breakpoints
• Transfer of control
• How to check if a numbers is even or odd
• Logcat tab
• Toast messages
• Statement vs Expression
• lift out assignment
• Any data type
• When expression with arg
• When vs If
• When expression without arg
• Combining concitions in a when expression
• An app that determines if a number is prime number
• How to hold a range of values (double dotted and in operators)
• Using the when expression with ranges
• Logical AND operator
• Useful Android Studio shortcut keys
• Defining range variables
• 5- Kotlin _ Functions
• Simple functions
• Functions with Parameters
• Functions with return type
• Function signature
• Parameter vs Argument
• Userful Android Studio shortcut keys
• Multi line comment
• 6- Kotlin _ Immutable and Mutable Collections + Loops
• Defining and initializing the Arrays
• Using the arrays
• Manipulating the array elements
• Any data type
• ArrayIndexOutOfBound exception
• Data types and performance
• How to define an array type explicitly
• The second way of declaring and initializing an array
• Iterating over arrays by using the for loop
• Destructuring declaration
• Iterate through a Range
• How to get the numbers of an array elements
• withIndex() function
• Until keyword
• listOf() function
• mutableListOf() funciton
• Array vs Collection
• mutable vs immutable
• 7- Kotlin _ Classes + Enums + Exception Handling
• Declaring classes
• How to create objects
• Constructors
• Iterating through an array of objects
• Vertical selection
• Property and method
• Class header
• Primary constructor
• Declaring properties from the primary constructor
• Class diagram
• How Enums make things easier
• Happy path
• Try Catch block
• Multiple catch blocks
• Finally block
• 8- App ( English Stories ) + Activities + List View + Singleton Pattern
• Displaing data into a Listview
• ListView click listener
• How to creating a new Activity
• Passing data between activities
• Scrolling toolbar
• How to set the start up Activity
• FAB (Floating Action Button)
• Snakbar
• Singleton pattern
• Private visibility modifier
• Public visibility modifier
• Overriding the functions
• String controls characters
• 9- App ( My Notes ) + SQLite Database + Activity Life Cycle + Action Bar + Alert Dialog
• Set the Margin attribute for views
• Designing SQLite databases for Android apps (Fields, Records, Tables, ...)
• Extending classes
• SQLiteOpenHelperClass
• TODO() functions
• NullPointerException
• Check null values
• Safe call operator
• Not null assertion operator
• Using readble connetions to read data from database
• Using writable connections to write data to database
• OnDestroy() funciton
• Performance tune-up while working ith databases
• Variables' scope
• Up button
• <Meta Data> tag
• How to add menu to Action Bar
• Working with Asset studio
• Refactoring resource names
• XML namespaces
• match-constraint attribute
• Hint attribute
• Setting EditText text attribute
• Changing the EditText focus programatically
• How to check if an EditText is empty
• Inserting new records into the database
• Up button vs Back button
• Activity life cycle
• Navigating clipboard items
• Refactoring functions
• How to close an Activity programatically
• Alert Dialog
• Updating and Deleting records from database
• 10- App ( Best Quotes ) + Recycler View +Card View + Intents + Guidelines + Unicode Characters
• How to insert default values into the database
• Designing layouts by using a Card View
• Linear Layout
• Image View
• Layout Margin attribute
• Writing a customized Adapter for Recycler View
• Recycler View vs List View
• Inner classes
• findViewByID() function
• Arranging and managing Recycler View items by using LayoutManager
• Using the customized Adapter View
• Passing functions in Kotlin as parameters
• Guidelines in constraint layout
• On item click listener for RecyclerView
• Creating DB in memory
• Explicit intent and Implicit intent
• Ripple effect
• Share data with other apps
• 11- App ( Animating a Spaceship + Best Quotes ) + Animation in Android + Splash Screen
• Alpha animation
• Translate animation
• Rotate animation
• Scale animation
• Companion objects
• Creating Splash Screens by using Lottie library
• Using third-party libraries
• Assets folder
• Application context vs the this keyword
• noHistory attribute
• 12- Publishing Your App
• Parallex effect
• Safe zone
• Legacy icons
• Adaptive icons
• Debug key vs Release key
• Signing the APK

Who Should Attend!

• Everyone who thinks about an Android application idea and eagers to turn it into a business
• College students
• Those who wants to learn the newest programming language (Kotlin)
• Android developers that want to update their knowledge about Android SDK

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