Android Development for Newbies (8+ Hours of Content)

Android Development for Newbies (8+ Hours of Content), available at Free, has an average rating of 4.45, with 82 lectures, 1 quizzes, based on 2265 reviews, and has 156295 subscribers.

You will learn about You will learn to develop and distribute Android apps This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone with basic Java skills It is particularly useful for Anyone with basic Java skills.

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Summary

Title: Android Development for Newbies (8+ Hours of Content)

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4.45

Number of Lectures: 82

Number of Quizzes: 1

Number of Published Lectures: 75

Number of Published Quizzes: 1

Number of Curriculum Items: 83

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 76

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

You will learn to develop and distribute Android apps

Who Should Attend

Anyone with basic Java skills

Target Audiences

Anyone with basic Java skills

** ONLY FREE ANDROID COURSE WITH 8+ HOURS OF CONTENT **

There goes a chinese proverb – “Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I’ll remember. Involve me, I’ll understand.”

The highest degree of learning takes place with your involvement. And this course is designed to do exactly that. This course introduces you to the basics of Android development. You will need some Java fundamentals to get started. If you are not sure about the difference between an abstract class and an interface you might have to refresh your Java concepts before proceeding.

Also, if you are new to Java I recommend John Purcell’s Java Course, in order to acquire the minimal Java programming skills required to step into Android development.

I’ve also got you some companion code which you can download from the appropriate lectures. You’ll be working on the source code along with me, so that you could get a good grasp on the concepts you will eventually be introduced to. At the end of this course you’ll be able to write and deploy AWESOME!! apps to Google Play.

How is this course designed?

Comprehensive – Contains lessons and exercises that enable you to develop real-world Android applications.
Simple & Sequential – To keep complexity at bay, the course introduces you to independent concepts initially and then reveals more of the complex stuff.
Focused towards Results – This is the same course that we use internally at our mobile app startup, to train new talents.
Hands-on Sessions – I guide you through sessions building apps and writing code snippets clearly explaining every line of code.
Drills – Easy-to-moderate beginner level exercises in which you get the opportunity to practice what you’ve learnt and verify the same.
Elaborate Videos – Learn Android concepts in a thorough manner, I’ve made sure that all WHYs and HOWs you need to know are covered.

Since this course is for beginners, I highly recommend you to take this course sequentially. You can pick on random videos, but remember – the complexity increases down the road so it is imperative that you take them one by one.

What makes me qualified?

Started out as an indie Android developer in 2009 and have programmed for Android since the Cupcake days (Android 1.5).
Developed more than 100 Android apps till date, including games and other apps that use the Android NDK.
Contributed open-source libraries for Android that improve developer productivity, notable ones are Android Saripaar, Simple Section Adapter, and Instant Adapter.
Bootstrapped a startup and currently have 9 developers working on Android and iOS.
Training people since 2005 😉

What are you waiting for? Gear up and lets have some fun!!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Gearing Up

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 2: Updated for Android Studio: Getting all you need

Lecture 3: (Skip for Android Studio) Reorganizing Eclipse in 2-Minutes

Lecture 4: Getting a brand new device – VIRTUALLY

Lecture 5: 2 More reasons to use Chrome

Lecture 6: Setting up the PATH (Windows)

Lecture 7: Setting up the PATH (Mac & Ubuntu)

Lecture 8: Verifying your PATH

Lecture 9: Genymotion – A Faster Emulator*

Chapter 2: Traffic Lights and Event Listeners

Lecture 1: Objectives

Lecture 2: Traffic Lights Kickstart

Lecture 3: Traffic Lights, turning them ON and OFF

Lecture 4: Drill – Traffic Lights

Lecture 5: Introducing Views

Lecture 6: Drill – Simple Interest Calculator

Lecture 7: Logging in Android

Lecture 8: Using the Devices View in Eclipse

Lecture 9: Troubleshooting – Gosh… My ADB is dead!

Lecture 10: Device Deployment Groundwork

Lecture 11: Deploying to a Device

Chapter 3: NEW: Working with Android Studio

Lecture 1: NEW: Creating a New Android Project

Lecture 2: NEW: Project Structure Explained

Chapter 4: Working with Eclipse ADT / ADT Bundle

Lecture 1: Creating a New Android Project

Lecture 2: Getting a grasp on the Project Folders

Chapter 5: Resources at your disposal

Lecture 1: Hallo, Salve, Bonjour with Strings

Lecture 2: Formatted String Resources

Lecture 3: French fluency in your App

Lecture 4: String Resources – FAQs

Lecture 5: What's a Context?

Lecture 6: Red, Blue, Green and Color

Lecture 7: Bitmap Drawables

Lecture 8: Is that a flooring? – Using Tiled Bitmaps

Lecture 9: Built-in Resources

Chapter 6: Eye Candy

Lecture 1: TextView, Custom Fonts and HTML

Lecture 2: Using links with TextView

Lecture 3: A chat with ImageView

Lecture 4: Compound Drawables to the Rescue

Lecture 5: Putting things 'Linear'ly in a 'Layout'

Lecture 6: RelativeLayout – 'Grand Master' of all Layouts

Lecture 7: Organizing Views in TableLayout

Lecture 8: Scrolling UIs larger than Screen

Lecture 9: Nested Layouts

Lecture 10: CheckBoxes to keep your options open

Lecture 11: RadioButtons – Pick one, just one

Lecture 12: Building your UI with XML

Lecture 13: Width & Height Attributes

Lecture 14: Using the Android SDK Reference

Chapter 7: Sugar for your Eye Candy

Lecture 1: Real Estate around your Views

Lecture 2: Customizing Widgets with State Drawables

Lecture 3: 'Fancy' Favorite Button

Lecture 4: ImageButton and Backgrounds

Lecture 5: Myth Busted: Glossy Buttons and 9 Patches

Lecture 6: The Updated 9 Patch Tool*

Lecture 7: Presenting your data in a ListView

Lecture 8: Transitioning to the ListActivity

Lecture 9: Beautify your List #2 – Get it Working

Lecture 10: Beautify your List #3 – Right way to do it

Lecture 11: Bring up that Context Menu

Lecture 12: Adding Functionality to the Context Menu Items

Lecture 13: ListView Updates

Lecture 14: Use a GridView, if you need a Grid

Chapter 8: Alerting Users

Lecture 1: Let's raise a Toast

Lecture 2: Showing Dialogs

Lecture 3: 'Stubborn' Modal Dialogs

Lecture 4: List Dialog in Action

Lecture 5: Vibrating your Phone

Chapter 9: Get me some popcorn, please

Lecture 1: Opening a Webpage

Lecture 2: Making Phone Calls

Lecture 3: How to send a SMS?

Lecture 4: Sending Emails

Lecture 5: How to check if an Intent is supported?

Lecture 6: Starting Activities

Lecture 7: Passing additional information as Extras

Chapter 10: Preferring Ice Tea to Cold Coffee

Lecture 1: Writing and Reading Preferences

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Lecture 1: What next?

Instructors

Ragunath Jawahar
Android Enthusiast and Entrepreneur

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 90 votes
2 stars: 84 votes
3 stars: 379 votes
4 stars: 729 votes
5 stars: 983 votes

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