Project- Flame Browser And Downloader For Android Smartphone

Build the whole project in this course and learn Android App Development

What you'll learn

Basic to Advance level Android programming

Create your own multi tab browser and multi segment downloader!

Enhance your coding skills by learning useful topics

Publish your app live for the audience and start your Android App Developer journey

Requirements

Only basic programming experience is needed.

Description

I am author of GinxDroid Browser and Downloader. In this course we will build Flame Browser and Downloader for Android Smartphone. It will be multi tab browser with attached multi segment downloader. You will gain knowledge about how real world android apps are developed and published. You can refer this project for your future app development. Some highlighted features that we are going to develop are Themes, Tab Manager (by creating out custom layout manager for RecyclerView), Multi segement downloader to boost download speed, Refresh download address functionality to refresh expired links, version control system (VCS), VCS operations, animations, prorgessbars - indeterminate and determinate, using third party libraries, attributing third party libraries properly, debugging, using lint tools to perform linting to mitigate warnings and errors, speed dials, history, bookmarks, homepages, splashscreen, launcher icon, notification, services, popup window, alert dialogs, fragmens, various layouts (how to use them in real world app effectively) and lot more development stuff is waiting for you in this course. And at the end we will publish production build live on Google Play Store! All this is witihin a single course! More that 200 code along sessions. Each session will start with introduction and ends with a section wrap up and quiz.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Lecture 2 Project Introduction

Section 2: Getting Started with Android Studio IDE

Lecture 3 Installing Android Studio (Part I)

Lecture 4 Installing Android Studio (Part II)

Lecture 5 Tweaking Android Studio settings

Lecture 6 Increasing Android Studio performance

Lecture 7 Overview of various tabs of Android Studio

Section 3: Projects in Android Studio and basic concepts

Lecture 8 Creating new project in Android Studio

Lecture 9 Overview of Android Manifest file

Lecture 10 Overview of Gradle Scripts

Lecture 11 Creating device profile in AVD and launching our app in AVD

Lecture 12 Creating new activity

Lecture 13 Activity Life Cycle

Lecture 14 View in android

Section 4: Version Control System (VCS)

Lecture 15 VCS - Introduction

Lecture 16 Adding Github account and sharing project on Github

Lecture 17 gitignore file - track and untrack files in VCS

Lecture 18 commit and push

Lecture 19 revert old commit and push

Lecture 20 checkout and revert commit

Section 5: Starting development of Flame Browser & Downloader and creating Themes Module.

Lecture 21 Layouts in Android - General Introduction

Lecture 22 Creating necessary attributes and declaring resources for our application

Lecture 23 Android Material Design - Getting Started

Lecture 24 Adding Bottom App Bar and Floating Action Button

Lecture 25 Theme Module - Introduction

Lecture 26 Creating DatabaseHandler (SQLiteOpenHelper) class

Lecture 27 Database CRUD operations (DB Tables creation, first initialization)

Lecture 28 Inserting Themes in Database and Updating old Database Schema

Lecture 29 Creating Modal Bottom Sheet in Android - Themes Sheet

Lecture 30 Creating Themes Sheet Layout and understanding build types

Lecture 31 RecycleView in android - General Introduction

Lecture 32 Creating adapter class for our RecycleView

Lecture 33 Showing our theme models to user

Lecture 34 Making Bottom Sheet top corners rounded

Lecture 35 Adding Dark Themes column to existing database

Lecture 36 Creating utility database functions related to our themes module

Lecture 37 Custom alert dialogs in android (continuing development of our themes module)

Lecture 38 Creating theme resources for our app

Lecture 39 Creating application level class for making themes persistant

Lecture 40 Creating base activity and applying our themes in that base activity

Lecture 41 Creating enable night mode for web pages functionality

Lecture 42 Creating Quick Action buttons for themes module

Lecture 43 Tweaking first initialization

Lecture 44 Wrapping up our themes module

Section 6: Creating Tab Manager Skeleton

Lecture 45 Creating adapter class for Tab Manager - RecyclerView

Lecture 46 Addition of new tab in tab manager - creating some helper functions

Lecture 47 Starting creation of custom layout manager - CustomHorizontalManager

Lecture 48 Continuing creation of CustomHorizontalManager

Lecture 49 Creating functionality for minimizing expanded tab

Lecture 50 Creating functionality for maximizing minimized tab

Lecture 51 Creating tab preview screen before scrolling functionality

Lecture 52 Creating scrolling functionality

Lecture 53 Creating scrollLeft and scrollRight functions

Lecture 54 Removing tab from tab manager

Lecture 55 Creating tab removal case in CustomHorizontalManager

Lecture 56 Creating Swipe Gesture for removing tab

Lecture 57 Wrapping up tab manager skeleton section

Section 7: Creation of Screen One that is Default Home Page

Lecture 58 Glimpse of two screens and upgrading Gradle plugin to V8

Lecture 59 Adding bottom bar for tab

Lecture 60 Designing top bar

Lecture 61 Creating Default Home Page layout

Lecture 62 Adding WebView and ProgressBar in Tab layout

Lecture 63 Using RecycledViewPool and creating QuickLinksRVHomePageAdapter

Lecture 64 Creating Quick Link item related database functions

Lecture 65 Continuing development of QuickLinksRVHomePageAdapter

Lecture 66 Creating TextDrawable class

Lecture 67 Wrapping creation of default home page section

Section 8: WebView - Creating basic functionality, creating tab preview

Lecture 68 What is WebView in android?

Lecture 69 Rendering first Webpage and Tweaking WebView related settings

Lecture 70 Showing webpage URL in top bar

Lecture 71 Showing progress of webpage to user

Lecture 72 Creating tab preview and showing it

Lecture 73 Fixing tab preview glitch

Lecture 74 Section wrap up

Section 9: Building menu for app

Lecture 75 Introduction

Lecture 76 Referencing menu structure of our ready project

Lecture 77 Creating layout for menu sheet

Lecture 78 RVIndicator class development - Part I

Lecture 79 RVIndicator class development - Part II and showing MenuSheet to user

Lecture 80 Cretion of MenuHelper class for showing Menu RecyclerView

Lecture 81 Creating adapter for Menu RecyclerView

Lecture 82 Creating menu screen one layout

Lecture 83 Creating menu screen two

Lecture 84 Showing our final menu to user

Lecture 85 Creating functionality for bottom buttons of our menu

Lecture 86 Hiding bottom bar when keyboard is visible and fixing view full screen bug

Lecture 87 Creating web mode functionality

Lecture 88 Continuing creation of menu screen one buttons functionality

Lecture 89 Showing web page title and favicon to user

Lecture 90 defining case 9 and 10 in CustomLayoutManager

Lecture 91 Calling close this tab after making inner structure ready for closing tab

Lecture 92 Creating functionality for close this tab button

Lecture 93 Creating functionality for find in page button

Lecture 94 Creating functionality for share, copy and print buttons

Lecture 95 Creating text scaling functionality

Lecture 96 Creating settings activity before wrapping menu section

Lecture 97 Wrapping up menu section

Lecture 98 Important note before moving to next section

Section 10: Creation of Home Page, History, Bookmarks and Speed Dial module

Lecture 99 Creating database related functions for home page module

Lecture 100 Adding home page URL in database

Lecture 101 Different webpage as home page not rendering - bug fix

Lecture 102 Making go to home page functionality

Lecture 103 Creating layout for manage home pages

Lecture 104 Creating hiding functionality for manage home pages search box

Lecture 105 Creating home page item row for RecyclerView

Lecture 106 Creating MangeHomePagesRVAdapter

Lecture 107 Creaeting functionality for deleting home page item

Lecture 108 Creating necessary database tables and methods

Lecture 109 Finally using ManageHomePagesRVAdapter with RecyclerView

Lecture 110 Creating functionality for bookmark this button

Lecture 111 Creating manage bookmarks functionality

Lecture 112 Creating BookmarksHelper class

Lecture 113 Creating case 6 and 4 in CustomHorizontalManager

Lecture 114 Creating add to speed dial functionality

Lecture 115 Creating menu for quick link item

Lecture 116 Creating functionality for open in background button of quick link menu

Lecture 117 Changing speed dial name functionality

Lecture 118 Creating remove speed dial functionality

Lecture 119 Creating history item related database functions

Lecture 120 Storing history item in database

Lecture 121 Creating manage history activity and its layout

Lecture 122 Creating ManageHistoryRVAdapter

Lecture 123 Creating row layout for history RecyclerView

Lecture 124 Testing manage history functionality after creating adapter for RecyclerView

Lecture 125 Creating swipe gesture for removing history item

Lecture 126 Creating clear history functionality

Lecture 127 Creating history helper class

Lecture 128 Wrapping up History, Bookmarks and Speed Dial section

Section 11: Search Engines and Search History for our browser

Lecture 129 Section introduction

Lecture 130 Creating database table and necessary helper functions

Lecture 131 Popup Window in android for showing search engines

Lecture 132 Creating adapter for RecyclerView which is present in Popup Window

Lecture 133 Fixing search engine adapter errors

Lecture 134 Using search engine adapter with RecyclerView

Lecture 135 Opening search engine selector PopupWindow from default home page

Lecture 136 Creating our search widget module

Lecture 137 Showing our search widget to user

Lecture 138 Creating search history table and its helper methods in DatabaseHandler

Lecture 139 Creating item row layout for search history RecyclerView

Lecture 140 Creating adapter for search history RecyclerView

Lecture 141 Using adapter with RecyclerView of our search widget module

Lecture 142 Creating voice launcher related functions

Lecture 143 Continuing creation of voice launcher functionality

Lecture 144 Handling microphone and DRM content request

Lecture 145 Creating manage search history activity and its related database functions

Lecture 146 Creating manage search history

Lecture 147 Section wrap up

Section 12: Settings and Site settings

Lecture 148 Creating site settings table in database and its related methods

Lecture 149 Creating site settings activity

Lecture 150 Referencing site settings activity views and making them functional

Lecture 151 Using our stored site settings

Lecture 152 Using site settings in our WebView

Lecture 153 Implementing location functionality

Lecture 154 Creating tips sheet

Lecture 155 Creating layout for clear records sheet

Lecture 156 Creating clear records functionality

Lecture 157 Creating share link of this app and reset settings functionality

Lecture 158 Creating about this app activity

Lecture 159 Creating legal information activity

Lecture 160 Creating credits activity

Lecture 161 Wrapping up section

Section 13: Launcher icon and splash screen and handling new intents and other functions

Lecture 162 Creating launcher icon for app

Lecture 163 Creating splash screen for app

Lecture 164 Handling new intent in MainActivity

Lecture 165 Creating necessary database table and functions for storing recent sites

Lecture 166 Creating settings for storing recent sites

Lecture 167 Getting current URLs from tab manager

Lecture 168 Defining case 7 and 8 in CustomHorizontalManager

Lecture 169 Creating open recent sites functionality

Lecture 170 Creating incognito mode

Lecture 171 Creating incognito clear records and enabling safe browsing

Lecture 172 Imp Note: Fixing user agent string

Lecture 173 Creating functionality for showing video in fullscreen mode

Lecture 174 Creating case 5 in CustomHorizontalManager

Lecture 175 Fixing error

Lecture 176 Creating onConfigurationChanged and tweaking manifest file

Lecture 177 Section wrap up

Section 14: Creating webpage menu, back button, popup blocker and other functionality

Lecture 178 Overriding back button functionality of device for our app

Lecture 179 Pause, Resume and Destroy WebView

Lecture 180 Creating file chooser callback

Lecture 181 Creating webpage menu layout

Lecture 182 Creating webpage menu

Lecture 183 Creating CustomHorizontalManager remaining methods

Lecture 184 Creating Popup Blocker

Lecture 185 Creating QR scanner functionality

Lecture 186 IMP NOTE: for improving tab manager performance

Lecture 187 Creating show connection information functionality

Lecture 188 Showing our app tutorial to user

Lecture 189 Section wrap up

Section 15: Creating Downloader for our Browser! - Adding and showing download tasks in UI

Lecture 190 Downloader section introduction (about development process of downloader)

Lecture 191 Creating downloader related database tables

Lecture 192 Creating DownloadTask model

Lecture 193 Creating database function for adding download task

Lecture 194 Adding extra coulmns in user preferences table

Lecture 195 Creating layout for storage path not choosen dialog

Lecture 196 Creating onListenDownload

Lecture 197 Creating select download path activity result launcher

Lecture 198 Creating download task fetcher and using it

Lecture 199 Creating HumanReadableFormat helper class

Lecture 200 Starting development of DownloadTaskFetcher class

Lecture 201 Creating HelperUtil class

Lecture 202 Continuing development of DownloadTaskFetcher class

Lecture 203 Creating layout of AddNewDTaskSheet

Lecture 204 Continuing developement of AddNewDTaskSheet

Lecture 205 Designing FirstActivity layout

Lecture 206 Fixing themes related bug and creating DownloaderSettings activity

Lecture 207 Creating DownloaderSettings activity layout

Lecture 208 Making DownloaderSettings activity views functional

Lecture 209 Making save image menu button functional

Lecture 210 Creating FragmentStateAdapter

Lecture 211 Creating editLLLinearLayout in activity_first.xml file

Lecture 212 Referencing editLL and its views and passing them to adapters

Lecture 213 Creating layouts for RecyclerViewAdapter's ViewHolder item

Lecture 214 Referencing views from layout in ViewHolder of RecyclerViewAdapter

Lecture 215 Creating database functions that will return task IDs

Lecture 216 Writing onBind code for RecyclerViewAdapter

Lecture 217 Defining functions of RecyclerViewAdapter

Lecture 218 Creating layout for CompletedRecyclerViewAdapterls ViewHolder

Lecture 219 Defining CompletedRecyclerViewAdapter functions

Lecture 220 LocalBroadcastManager and BroadcastReceiver - introduction and using them

Lecture 221 Creating BatteryOptimization sheet

Lecture 222 Asking post notifications permission from user

Lecture 223 Defining methods of FirstActivity

Lecture 224 Section wrap up

Section 16: Downloading our download task and showing it in FirstActivity

Lecture 225 Creating necessary database functions for downloading DownloadTask

Lecture 226 Creating CustomNotificationGenerator class

Lecture 227 Starting development of DownloadingService

Lecture 228 Defining DownloadsExecutor class in DownloadingService

Lecture 229 Start defining run method of DownloadingService

Lecture 230 Defining DownloadsExecutor methods

Lecture 231 Defining DownloadingService methods

Lecture 232 Continuing development of DownloadsExecutor

Lecture 233 Defining exception occurred methods

Lecture 234 Defining methods related to exception occurred methods

Lecture 235 Creating remaining exception occurred related methods

Lecture 236 Creating and defining necessary classes

Lecture 237 Creating necessary classes that will download segments of download task

Lecture 238 Adding one permission in manifest file and defining onStartCommand

Lecture 239 Section wrap up

Section 17: Wiring downloader with user interface

Lecture 240 Wiring download now, pause and resume UI with downloader

Lecture 241 Fixing UI not updating glitch

Lecture 242 Fixed progress bars not updating glitch

Lecture 243 Creating layout for popup error details dialog

Lecture 244 Coding methods for showing popup error details dialog

Lecture 245 Creating start from beginning method

Lecture 246 Defining methods related to onStartCommand code

Lecture 247 Creating normal message popup dialog

Lecture 248 Creating layout for refresh download address dialog

Lecture 249 Accessing refresh download address views & creating RefreshAddress thread

Lecture 250 Defining run method of RefreshTask

Lecture 251 Reviewing todos

Lecture 252 Starting creation of multi-select-delete functionality

Lecture 253 Defining onLongClickListener for MaterialCardView

Lecture 254 Changing onCreateListener for making multi-select functional

Lecture 255 Tweaking onBind function for showing MaterialCardView as checkd or unchecked

Lecture 256 Creating methods related to multi-select and delete

Lecture 257 Creating delete dialog layout

Lecture 258 Defining create delete popup methods

Lecture 259 Defining delete tasks

Lecture 260 Creating multi-select-delete related methods in CompletedRecyclerViewAdapter

Lecture 261 Creating onLongClickListener for CompletedRecyclerView item

Lecture 262 Defining onClickListener for CompletedRecyclerView item

Lecture 263 Defining onClickListeners and testing multi-select-delete functionality

Lecture 264 Creating activity - FileDetails layout

Lecture 265 Defining code in FileDetails and fixing some warnings

Lecture 266 Overriding FirstActivity methods

Lecture 267 Fixing MainActivity todo

Lecture 268 Committing our code

Lecture 269 Creating app and ad unit in AdMob dashboard

Lecture 270 Continuing AdMob banner ad implementation process

Lecture 271 Defining methods in FirstActivity for showing banner ads

Lecture 272 Creating consent message in AdMob

Lecture 273 Testing AdMob banner ads

Section 18: Preparing our app for final release and publishing it in Google Play Store

Lecture 274 Analyzing code before preparing bundle

Lecture 275 Doing final steps before bundling our app

Lecture 276 Genererating bundle of our app

Lecture 277 Publishing our app

Beginner android devs. and advanced android devs. who are curious about Android programming fundas!