Android: Application Development And Design Patterns

Create an application using Android N as well as explore Android design patterns

What you'll learn

Create the user interface with elements such as layouts and views

Use and evangelize the best third-party libraries in the business, which are not known to developers at beginner-intermediate level

Implement additional components like Firebase Crash Report Analysis to ensure the success of an application

Exercise the testing puzzles such as unit testing with PowerMock and Espresso

Detect user activities by using touch screen listeners, gesture detection, and reading sensors

Apply transitions and shared elements to employ elegant animations and efficiently use the minimal screen space of mobile devices

Develop apps that automatically apply the best layouts for different devices by using designated directories

Socialize in the digital word by connecting your app to social media

Requirements

You should have basic knowledge of Java

Description

If you're a newbie in the world of app development, trying to create apps that sells on Play Store, then this course is for you.
There’s no denying that Android has taken over the mobile world.

There’s no denying that Android has taken over the mobile world. Android is the most common OS used in mobiles.
Android N
Unparalleled levels of performance. Support for the Vulkan graphics rendering API. Better security with stronger MediaServer and platform hardening. 'Seamless' Android updates
Android N brings in much more advancements in control and security as compared to Android M. The performance has improved. Doze gets better in Android N.
There’s a rise in Android app developers in the market. You could become one among them.

Application development with Android N can be summarized in these words:
More apps; less time
Android: Application Development and Design Patterns  exists as a blend of text, videos, code examples, and assessments, which together makes your learning and creating journey all the more fun and worth the cost.
This course starts with an introduction on Android Nougat. By getting to know all its new features, get started on building your own application. Start off by creating its UI with Android’s key developer tool the Android Studio and Android SDK. Networking concepts with the API are the next in line, followed by creating an application that will give you a practical hands on experience such as a News Reader application. Complete the building process by implementing Firebase Analytics and Crash Analysis to measure the success and health of your app.
You will gradually explore the different design and layout patterns and learn the best practices on how to use them together. You will then develop an application that will help you grasp activities, services, and broadcasts and their roles in Android development. Moving on, you will add user detecting classes and APIs such as for gesture detection, touch screen listeners and sensors to our app. You will also learn to adapt your app to run on tablets and other devices and platforms, including Android Wear, Auto, and TV. Finally, you will learn to connect your app to social media.
By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to write clean code with no code entropy and make your app stand out from the crowd.
The goal of this course is to make you a skilled Android developer.
If you want to be the next Android app developer in town, go for this course.

This course is authored by some of the best in the field.
Kyle MewKyle Mew has been programming since the early eighties and has written for several technology websites. He has also written three radio plays and three other books on Android development.
Soham Mondal
Soham Mondal has worked with Android for about 4 years now and his own app “Skyro Voice Recorder” has around half a million downloads on the Play Store and has been featured there a couple of times. Apart from that, he has consulted with a bunch of start-ups on Android/UX and was an organizer with Blrdroid, one of the largest Android groups in the world.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Why Android N?

Lecture 2 Basics of Android

Lecture 3 Anatomy of our app

Lecture 4 Tools overview

Lecture 5 Tools – Android Studio and Emulators

Section 2: UI of the Application

Lecture 6 UI section overview

Lecture 7 Hello World

Lecture 8 Home page card

Lecture 9 Home page card implementation

Lecture 10 NewsArticle, adapters, and RecyclerView

Lecture 11 Creating a NewsArticle

Lecture 12 Implementing the ArrayAdapter

Lecture 13 Implementing the RecyclerView

Lecture 14 The Details page

Lecture 15 Event handling and navigation

Lecture 16 Enabling navigation

Lecture 17 Android N multiwindow features

Section 3: Networking

Lecture 18 Networking section overview

Lecture 19 Networking basics

Lecture 20 News API

Lecture 21 Parsing the news API response

Lecture 22 Parsing the news API response – implementation

Lecture 23 Retrofit

Lecture 24 Retrofit implementation

Lecture 25 Testing API calls

Section 4: Completing the App

Lecture 26 Connecting the response to the UI

Lecture 27 Analytics and more

Lecture 28 Analytics and crash reporting implementation

Lecture 29 Addition attribution

Section 5: Testing

Lecture 30 Introduction to testing in Android

Lecture 31 Unit testing in Android

Lecture 32 Unit testing with PowerMock

Lecture 33 Instrumentation testing in Android

Lecture 34 Espresso implementation

Section 6: Publishing the App

Lecture 35 Preparing to upload to the Play Store

Lecture 36 Uploading to the Play Store

Section 7: Best Practices

Lecture 37 Best practices

Lecture 38 Review of the project

Lecture 39 Take Up a Challenge!

Section 8: Design Patterns

Lecture 40 Introduction

Lecture 41 What we will build

Lecture 42 Targeting platform versions

Lecture 43 The support library and the factory pattern

Lecture 44 Running and testing an app

Lecture 45 The abstract factory pattern

Section 9: Creational Patterns

Lecture 46 Introduction

Lecture 47 Applying themes

Lecture 48 Customizing color and text

Lecture 49 Adding image resources

Lecture 50 Creating card view

Lecture 51 Applying a builder pattern

Section 10: Material Patterns

Lecture 52 Introduction

Lecture 53 The app bar

Lecture 54 The navigation drawer

Lecture 55 The singleton pattern

Section 11: Layout Patterns

Lecture 56 Linear layouts

Lecture 57 Relative layouts

Lecture 58 Screen rotation

Lecture 59 Large screen layout

Lecture 60 The strategy pattern

Section 12: Structural Patterns

Lecture 61 Introduction

Lecture 62 Generating lists

Lecture 63 List item layouts

Lecture 64 Connecting data

Lecture 65 Translating string resources

Lecture 66 The adapter pattern

Lecture 67 The bridge pattern

Lecture 68 The facade pattern

Lecture 69 The criteria pattern

Section 13: Activating Patterns

Lecture 70 Introduction

Lecture 71 Collapsing toolbars

Lecture 72 Applying a data factory pattern

Lecture 73 Positioning item layouts

Lecture 74 Using the factory with the RecyclerView

Lecture 75 Adding dividers

Lecture 76 Configuring the floating action button

Lecture 77 The dialog builder

Lecture 78 Adding swipe and dismiss actions

Lecture 79 Constructing layout builders

Section 14: Combining Patterns

Lecture 80 Introduction

Lecture 81 Outlining specifications

Lecture 82 The prototype pattern

Lecture 83 The decorator design pattern

Lecture 84 A sandwich builder pattern

Lecture 85 Selecting patterns

Lecture 86 Adding a decorator

Section 15: Composing Patterns

Lecture 87 The composite pattern

Lecture 88 A layout composer

Lecture 89 Storage options

Lecture 90 Storing user preferences

Section 16: Observing Patterns

Lecture 91 Introduction

Lecture 92 The observer pattern

Lecture 93 Adding a notification

Lecture 94 Services

Section 17: Behavioral Patterns

Lecture 95 Introduction

Lecture 96 The template pattern

Lecture 97 The visitor pattern

Lecture 98 The state pattern

Section 18: Wearable Patterns

Lecture 99 Introduction

Lecture 100 Android TV

Lecture 101 Android Wear

Lecture 102 Android Auto

Section 19: Social Patterns

Lecture 103 Adding web pages

Lecture 104 Connecting with Facebook

Lecture 105 Content builders

Lecture 106 Integrating Twitter

If you're a newbie in the world of app development, trying to create apps that sells on Play Store, then this course is for you.