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Android Development with Kotlin training course

Learn Android development with Kotlin by setting up Android Studio, configuring SDKs, and creating projects across platforms. Master app anatomy, UI design, layouts, and activities while using Kotlin to handle interactions. Understand intents, tasks, and screen flows to build efficient and dynamic mobile apps.

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"Our tailored course provided a well rounded introduction and also covered some intermediate level topics that we needed to know. Clive gave us some best practice ideas and tips to take away. Fast paced but the instructor never lost any of the delegates"

Brian Leek, Data Analyst, May 2022

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  • Introduction to Android Development with Kotlin
  • Installing and configuration of Android Studio
  • Explore Android Virtual Device (AVD)
  • Android Studio IDE (Overview) & Setting up a project 
  • Learn Anatomy of an App & Activity overview 
  • Explore Basic interaction, layouts & phases of development 
  • Utilise User Interface Controls, Screen Flows & Intents
  • Learn how to use Tasks and Launch modes
  • Work with Toolbar, Context and Popup Menus
  • And many more features.. please see course details. 

Installing and configuration of Android Studio

Installing on all platforms (Windows, macOS and Linux), Configure Android SDK on platforms

Android Virtual Device (AVD)

Install a new AVD, AVD manager, Select AVD Hardware, Configuration of AVD

Setting up a project

Selecting the Kotlin programming language, Selecting the SDK, Installing components, Android Studio IDE (Overview)

Anatomy of an App

Android Software Stack, Activities and Fragments (Overview), Intents, Broadcast Intents and Receivers, Android Services, Content providers, Application Manifest, Application Resources, Application Context

Activities

Activity overview, Activities and UI, Activities Lifecycle, Using the Log function and logcat

Saving Activity State

Bundle object, Saving & restoring Activity 

Basic interaction,

Control overview, Understand the function of an Event handler, Understand the function of a findViewById reference, Write Kotlin code to handle buttons and labels

 

Layouts

Linear Layouts, ConstraintLayout, Creating layouts via code, Automatic, manual & bias constraints, Chains

Phases of Development

Creating a layout via XML, Creating a layout via Kotlin

User Interface Controls

Buttons, Toasts, Switches, Seek Bar, Toggle Buttons, Radio Buttons, Radio Groups

Screen Flows

The design process, The Outline, Sketching, Use Cases, Wire Frames,The Mockup

Intents

Introduction to Intents, Explicit Intents, Implicit Intents, Broadcast Intents and Receivers

Tasks and Launch modes

Tasks and Back Stack, Launch Modes (Standard, SingleTop, SingleTask, SingleInstance)

Toolbar Menus

Vector Assets, Menu Directories and Files, Inflating menus, Responding to menus

Context Menus

Context Menus, Menu Directories and Files, Inflating menus, Responding to menus

Popup Menus

Popup Menus, Menu Directories and Files, Inflating menus, Responding to menus

Spinners

Spinners, strings XML file, Using a List from Kotlin, ArrayAdapter

Pickers

Time Pickers, Properties, Modes, setOnTimeChangedListener()

Calendar View

Date Pickers, Properties, Modes, setOnDateChangedListener()

List View

Calendar View, Properties, Modes, setOnDateChangedListener()

View Bindings

Introduction to View Binding, Enabling View Binding, Migrate an existing project

Fragments

Introduction to Fragments, Static Fragments, Dynamic Fragments, Fragment Lifecycle

Navigation graph 

Home and Actions, Passing Data via Safeargs

RecyclerView

Viewholders and adapter

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Seasoned Kotlin Developers looking to get more out of their Kotlin code to help develop commercial applications on Google's Android platform or Backend Applications with Kotlin

5 star

4.8 out of 5 average

"Our tailored course provided a well rounded introduction and also covered some intermediate level topics that we needed to know. Clive gave us some best practice ideas and tips to take away. Fast paced but the instructor never lost any of the delegates"

Brian Leek, Data Analyst, May 2022



“JBI  did a great job of customizing their syllabus to suit our business  needs and also bringing our team up to speed on the current best practices. Our teams varied widely in terms of experience and  the Instructor handled this particularly well - very impressive”

Brian F, Team Lead, RBS, Data Analysis Course, 20 April 2022

 

 

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In this hands-on Android development course with Kotlin, you'll start by installing and configuring Android Studio on various platforms, including Windows, macOS, and Linux. You’ll learn to create and manage Android Virtual Devices (AVDs), giving you a practical environment to test your applications.

The course covers the fundamental components of Android apps, such as activities, fragments, intents, and services, providing a comprehensive understanding of the Android software stack.

You'll explore the lifecycle of activities and learn techniques for saving and restoring their state. The course also focuses on UI design, where you’ll create layouts using LinearLayout and ConstraintLayout, and interact with various user interface controls like buttons and toasts.

Additionally, you'll develop skills in designing screen flows through the use of wireframes and mockups. By the end of the course, you'll be well-prepared to build dynamic, user-friendly mobile applications that leverage the power of Kotlin and Android.

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