Courses Details

Curriculum

Introduction and Course Information

• Introduction to Course
• Introduction to Android
• Open Handset Alliance

Installing the Necessary

• Install Android Studio
• Do you need to download the Java Development Kit
• Java Development Kit for Windows(Bit Users Only)
• Configure Andriod SDK
• Android Studio Settings
• Enable VT-X in BIOS

Hello World Android App

• Introduction
• Andriod Studio Templates
• Hello World
• Tour of Android Studio
• Setting Up a Virtual Device
• FAQ Emulators on Windows with AMD processor
• Running on an emulator
• Running on a physical Android device

Kotlin Tutorials

• FAQ for Andriod Studio
• Kotlin Tutorial Setup
• Kotlin Tutorial
• Variables and Types
• String Concatenation and Interpolation
• val and var and more on Declarations
• Conditions
• Classes
• Objects and Instances
• Challenge
• Lists
• toString Challenge
• for Loops
• for Encapsulation and Private Properties
• Overloading Functions
• Inheritance
• while loops
• for loop revisited
• do while loops
• loop challenges

The Button Counter App

• Introduction
• Setup Play Project
• The Constraint Layout
• Constraints and Resizing
• Positioning Widgets
• Inner Lines within a Widget
• Layouts on Different Devices
• More on the Constraints
• Layout Designer rendering error
• Baseline Constraints
• Constraining Widgets
• Add Scrolling Capabilites
• The Button Counter App
• Finish Layout
• Coding Button Counter App
• findViewById and r Class
• Events and setonclicklistener
• Testing and Challenge Time
• Extending the Button App
• Testing and Challenge
• Fixing Kotlin Gradle Issues
• The Activity Lifecycle
• The Logcat Pane
• Logging the Activity Lifecycle
• Activity Lifecycle in Action
• Saving and Restoring Instance State

Calculator App

• Demo Calculator App
• Calculator Interface Setup
• Fine Tuning the Layout
• Create Landscape Layout
• Comparing Flles with Diff
• Comparing Directories
• Coding the Calculator
• Add onClickListeners
• Write Perform Operation Function
• Bug Fix and Code Improvements
• Bug Fix Challenge and Save State
• Widget References in Kotlin
• Guidelines
• Fixing Landscape Layout
• Add Neg Button to Layout
• Code Changes for Neg Button
• Add Neg Button to Portrait

The Top Downloader App

• Introduction
• Async Task
• Logging and Logcat
• Important note for API and the Top Downloader
• Download the RSS Feed
• Reading the Data
• Android Permissions
• Writing Idiomatic Kotlin
• Parsing the Data
• Create XML Parse Function
• Testing the App
• ListView and ArrayAdapter
• Code Changes for Array Adapter
• onDestroy and Asynctask
• Create Custom Adapter
• Custom Adapter Code
• Imporving the Adapter
• ViewHolder Pattern
• Adding a Menu
• Link for Top Free Applications
• Menu Groups
• Challenge Solution

The YouTube App

• SetUp
• YouTube Activity
• Adding Widgets Dynamically
• Google API Key
• Add key to Code
• The YouTube Player
• onInitializationSuccess Method
• Adding Listeners
• Improving the Player
• Extending App Layouts
• Extending Youtube App Code
• Implementing Intents and Challenge
• Challenge Solution
• More Error Handling

Flickr Browser App

• Introduction
• Flick App and Feeds
• Json and Mini Challenge
• Log Tag and Companion Objects
• Kotlin top-level constants
• Download JSON - doInBackgroung
• CallBacks
• Project Diagram and Photo Class
• GetFlickJsonData class
• Uri Builder
• Flickr Browser User Interface
• RecyclerView Layouts
• Finishing Browse Layouts
• Search and PhotoDetail Activities
• Nested Layouts
• RecyclerView Adaptors
• onBindViewHolder and Picasso
• Associate Adapter to Recyclerview
• RecyclerItemClickListener
• GestureDetector
• Displaying the full photo
• Serializable
• Modify Phot Details Activity
• Parcelable
• Material Design
• AppCompat - Backwards Compatibility
• Style Sheets
• Custom Style Sheets
• Namespaces
• Other Material Design Changes
• Missing Style Editor Video
• Differences in API Levels
• String Resources
• String Resources Placeholders
• Adding the Search Feature
• SearchView
• SearchView Events
• SharedPreferences
• Telling Fibs

Databases, the SQL Language and SQLite on Android

• Introduction
• Introduction to Databases
• Database Terminology
• Command Line and Path Setup
• Introduction to Sqlite
• Sqlite Querying Data
• Order By and Joins
• More Complex Joins
• Wild Cards and Views
• HouseKeeping and Challenge
• Basic SQL in Android
• Create Table Add Data and Test
• Cursor and Navigation
• Correction
• Android File System
• Content Providers
• Setting up the Emulators
• Contact Provider App Layout
• The ContactsContract
• ContentResolver and Abstraction
• Retrieving Data with a ContentResolver
• Permissions
• Checking Permissions at Runtime
• Testing the App
• Avoiding Crashes Snackbars and a Challenge
• Intents, setData and Uris
• Problems Storing State
• Remove Saving of Sate
• Test Scripts Challenge and Cleanup

ViewModel and LiveData

• Introduction
• Androids ViewModel Class
• Using a ViewModel
• Finish ViewModel Changes
• Exposing LiveData
• Swapping the ViewModel
• ViewModel with Top Downloader
• Implement ViewModel
• Final Changes
• App Testing

TaskTimer App

• The TaskTimer Application
• Database Setup
• Tasks Contract Class
• AppDatabase Class
• Create SQL for Tasks Table
• Singleton AppDatabase Class
• onUpgrade and Testing
• The ContentProvider
• uriMatcher
• Updating Build Files
• The Content URI
• Register the ContentProvider
• Using appendWhereEscapeString
• Mime Types in the Content Provider
• Content Provider Insert
• Update and Delete
• Testing Insert and Update
• Testing Bulk Update and Delete
• Main Menu UI
• Task UI Layout
• Task List Items Constraints
• Add Edit Layout
• The Kotlin Data Class
• The Add Edit Fragment
• Swapping Fragments
• Multi-pane Fragments
• Multi-pane Displays
• Enabling Two-pane Mode
• The Fragment Lifecycle
• Logging the Fragment Lifecycle
• Android SDK Gradle and Kotlin Updates
• Up and Back Navigation for Fragments
• Object can have More than One Type
• Removing the Up Button
• Back Navigation
• Completing the AddEdit UI
• Saving the Task Details
• Test Saving
• Updating Android Studio, Kotlin and Gradle
• Fixing New Kotlin Warnings
• Layout Container
• RecyclerView CursorAdapter