GraphQL & Apollo with Android – From Novice to Expert

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome to the Course

Lecture 2: How to Get the Most out of this Course

Chapter 2: Why GraphQL – GraphQL vs REST

Lecture 1: GraphQL – What is it? Why GraphQL?

Lecture 2: GraphQL Who Created it?

Lecture 3: GraphQL – Overview and Graph Theory

Lecture 4: Demo – GraphQL Quick Demo

Lecture 5: Course PDF Slides to Help You Learn Better

Lecture 6: Server Side Project Source Code

Lecture 7: Android Client App Project Source Code

Chapter 3: Getting Started with GraphQL, Server Side and Development Environment Setup

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Development Tools to Install – Cmdr, VSCode and Nodejs

Lecture 3: VSCode Editor Command Cheat Sheets

Lecture 4: Understanding the basics of the IDE – Extensions, Keyboard Shortcuts

Lecture 5: Terminal (Command Line) Commands Cheat Sheet

Lecture 6: Setting up Our First Project

Lecture 7: Install NodeJS and Express

Lecture 8: Installing GraphQL and Express

Lecture 9: Creating and Understanding Schemas

Lecture 10: Creating Our Very First GraphQL Query and RootQueries

Lecture 11: The Resolve Method – Returning Data back

Lecture 12: Adding a Hobby Type and RootQuery

Lecture 13: Adding the Post Type

Lecture 14: Adding Relationship between Types

Lecture 15: Showing Users Relashionship

Lecture 16: User Type Relationship to Hobby

Lecture 17: Posts Query

Lecture 18: Hobbies Query – Adding Fields

Chapter 4: GraphQL – Core Concepts – Mutations

Lecture 1: Introduction to Mutations in GraphQL

Lecture 2: Creating a User with Mutations

Lecture 3: Creating a Post with Mutations

Lecture 4: Creating a Hobby with Mutations

Lecture 5: Adding a Post Query

Lecture 6: Post and Hobby Queries

Chapter 5: GraphQL – Types

Lecture 1: Understanding GraphQL Scalar Types – Part 1

Lecture 2: GraphQL – Types – Non Nullables

Lecture 3: GraphQL – Scalar Types and Object Types

Chapter 6: Connecting to an External Database – MongoDB

Lecture 1: MongoDB and Relational Databases – Presentation

Lecture 2: Creating an mLab – MongoDB Account

Lecture 3: Installing Mongoose Package and Connecting

Lecture 4: Creating Mongoose Models – User Model

Chapter 7: GraphQL – Intermediate Concepts – Mutations

Lecture 1: Mutation in GraphQL – Updating a User Type

Lecture 2: Mutation in GraphQL – Updating a Post and Hobby Types

Lecture 3: Mutation in GraphQL – Removing a User Type

Lecture 4: Mutation in GraphQL – Remove Mutation – Final

Chapter 8: Deploying Our Project to Heroku

Lecture 1: Introduction to Remote Servers

Lecture 2: Deploying our Node GraphQL App to Heroku

Lecture 3: Using Prisma Playground

Lecture 4: NOTE on Apollo Codegen!

Chapter 9: Building the Android GraphQL Client App

Lecture 1: Learning Path

Lecture 2: About Apollo and the Documentation

Lecture 3: Adding Apollo Dependencies to Android Studio

Lecture 4: Generating the JSON Schema File

Lecture 5: Android Apollo Project File Structure

Lecture 6: Setting up Apollo Project and Getting GraphQL Data

Lecture 7: Fetching More Data and Showing on the Screen

Lecture 8: Setting up Android Client's App User Interface – Row Cell

Lecture 9: RecyclerView Adapter

Lecture 10: Finalizing Our Recyclerview Adapter

Lecture 11: RecyclerView Adapter – Final

Lecture 12: Showing List of Users on Screen

Lecture 13: Creating UI for Details Screen

Lecture 14: Passing Data to Details Activity

Lecture 15: Restructuring Details View

Lecture 16: Apollo and Gradle Gotchas and FIXES!

Lecture 17: Showing Users Hobbies and Posts

Lecture 18: Creating Details RecyclerView – Part 1

Lecture 19: Setting up Details Activity Adapter

Lecture 20: Finalizing Details Screen (Activity)

Chapter 10: Building the Android GraphQL Client App – Continuation

Lecture 1: Fixing the User Filtering Process

Lecture 2: Hide View if No Hobbies or Posts Found

Lecture 3: Setting up Add User Activity

Lecture 4: Setting up Mutation Classes

Lecture 5: Adding a User

Lecture 6: Finalizing Adding User, Hobbies and Posts

Chapter 11: Update and Delete – Android Apollo Client App

Lecture 1: Setting up UI for Updates

Lecture 2: Updating a User

Lecture 3: Updating a User – Final

Lecture 4: CHALLENGE: Implement Save Hobby and Save Post

Lecture 5: Finish Adding Post and Hobby

Lecture 6: User Interface for Delete Mutation

Lecture 7: Delete User – Congratulations – Finished App

Chapter 12: Wrap-up

Lecture 1: Course Round-up

Chapter 13: Bonus – Get My Other Courses

Lecture 1: Discount for my Other Courses