Course curriculum

1. You can code Android applications!

• Introduction

2. Build your first Android application!

• Build your first application – part 1
• Build your first application – part 2
• Improve your application and challenge
• Challenge solution

3. Java tutorial

• Java variables and arithmetic operators
• Java operators – conditional statements – for loops
• Loops continued and challenge
• Create Guess Me Game – challenge solution
• Arrays
• Objective oriented programming
• Object oriented programming – part 2
• Objective oriented programming challenge
• Collections in Java
• Static keyword – inner classes – interfaces – abstract classes
• Concurrency and threading in Java – challenge
• Concurrency and threading in Java – challenge solution
• Concurrency and threading in Java – challenge solution (continued)

4. User interface

• User interface basics
• User interface basics (continued)
• Constraint layout – relative layout – linear layout – on click listeners
• List view and spinner and their adapters and onItemClickListeners
• Different XML files
• Look different in different configurations – manifest
• Challenge and solution
• Challenge solution (continued)

5. Sample application

• First sample application – app’s first page and intents
• Logs – list view – gradle – recycler view – recycler view adapter
• Recycler view adapter (continued)
• Recycler view (continued) – card view – create utility class
• Show all books – Intents and Multiple Activities – Show Book Details
• Fix book layout – add books to different categories – alert dialogs
• Improve the app – add all categories – enable up button
• Redesign app logic – add about dialog – web view
• Delete books by long pressing on a card view – animations

6. Shortcuts and debugging

• Android Studio environment and shortcuts
• Debugging – logs – exceptions – run the app on a real device

7. Activities and fragments

• Activities concept and declaration activity life cycle
• Navigate between activities and pass data
• Intent actions and types and flags – handling intent results
• Calendar – challenge
• SaveInstanceState – Android support library – AndroidX
• Fragments
• Pass data with call backs – create a customized dialog
• Image slider app
• Create a gym app – part 1
• Create a gym app – part 2
• Create a gym app – part 3
• Create a gym app – part 4

8. Background tasks

• Threads and async task
• Started services
• Bound services
• Job scheduler
• Work manager

9. Networking in Android

• Create a news feed reader with Xml Pull Parser
• Create a news feed reader with Xml Pull Parser – part 2
• JSON concept and parsing with Gson
• Volley and Http methods
• Networking with Retrofit

10. Second sample app – create an online grocery

• Creating the navigation drawer
• Bottom navigation view – shared preferences
• Initialize shared preferences and recycler view adapter
• Customized sorting – create grocery item activity layout
• Show items in grocery item activity – add review
• Handle rating – add items to cart
• Finish search activity
• Handle rating – debug search activity and show items by category
• Create cart activity
• Debug cart activity and add second cart fragment
• Create third cart fragment and payment
• Add popularity points – close keyboard at proper times – make navigation drawer functional
• Track user behavior and make suggestions personalized
• Final debugging and improvement

11. Databases

• Basic SQL commands
• Basic SQL commands continued
• SQLite Challenge
• SQLOpenHelper class
• Implement SQLite database
• More on SQLite databases and cursors
• SQLite Database Challenge
• SQLite Database Challenge continued
• SQLite Database Challenge continued
• Take a photo using camera and basic permissions
• Handle Permissions correctly
• Room Database
• Room Database Implementation – call backs and migration – Live data
• Composition – Abstraction – many to many relationships in room database
• Room Database challenge – part 1
• Room Database challenge – part 2

12. Content Providers

• Content Providers concept – Get data from Calendar Content Provider
• Insert, Update and Delete events using calendar content provider
• Challenge – Using Contacts Content Provider to get contatcts
• Search, Delete and Update Contacts using Contacts Content Provider
• Insert a contact using Contact Content Provider
• Create Database and Recycler View Adapter before creating Content Provider
• Create Content Provider Contract – Start Creating Content Provider – Uri Matcher
• Retrieve data from database using Content Provider
• Insert, Update, Delete and getType methods for content provider
• Share your application’s database with other applications using content provider

13. Notifications

• Create Notification Channel – Issue a simple Notification – content intent for notification
• Make actions for notifications – cancel a notification – progress notification
• Large text, Big picture and inbox styles for notifications
• Media and Messaging styles for notifications
• Group notifications – Group notifications channels – get notification and notification channel settings
• Set a custom view for notification