Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
7 Hour(s) 34 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Catalin Stefan
Rating
Course Overview
Using Java, MVVM, Dagger2, Navigation, Retrofit and Unit tests
Build a State of the Art Android App with this new course on Android development and Java.
Most tutorials and how to's show you the basics of app building, but they don't show you how to use the latest technologies and libraries.
Most projects and jobs require you to know how to use the latest libraries. This is what this course is all about.
The purpose of this course is to give you a practical example of how to use these technologies, all while building a simple example app.
We will learn about:
MVVM architecture using the Google recommended Android Lifecycle Extensions
Retrofit and JSON for remote server communication
RxJava as a reactive framework
Dagger2 for dependency injection
Jetpack navigation for navigating the user through the app screens
Jetpack Data Binding for building UI screens
Glide for seamless image loading
Jetpack Palette for extracting colors from images
Unit tests to test the application and make it stable and robust
And we will build everything in Java
If you want to become an expert Android Developer, you need to know how to use these technologies.
If you want to build an app that scales and is robust, these technologies will make your life easy in the long term.
Sign up today, and let's learn how to properly build a State of the Art Android Application.
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 55 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Setup
- Section 3 Navigation
- Section 4 MVVM
- Section 5 Model - getting data with Retrofit
- Section 6 Detail screen and Palette library
- Section 7 Data Binding
- Section 8 Dependency injection using Dagger2
- Section 9 Unit Testing using Mockito
- Section 10 Conclusions
What You’ll Learn
- MVVM
- Dagger2
- Unit tests
- State of the Art Android development
- Retrofit
- Glide
- Navigation
- Data Binding
- Kotlin
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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MMak H
Course is good but outdated. For example, butterknife is deprecated but the course still uses butterknife. The gradle files have changed quite a bit from what's shown in the course (and I am not just talking about the version numbers of dependent libraries). It is not updated for 2022. It's quite misleading.
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IIvan Popov
Really good learning course, but the sound of 36th lecture is awful
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NNabin Ghimire
Awesome course which covers latest jetpack libraries along with dagger 2 and unit testing. Very helpful course. Thank you
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MMarios Georgiou
Catalin demonstrates specific technologies of the android world and helps you get into a path to search and learn these technologies by yourself. This course is not for beginners in the android world and programming in general, Catalin does not take the time to explain core android components which is a good thing, i am a beginner in the android world and i prefer learning the core functionality mentioned in this course by reading through the documentation. I am cutting 1 start from the review for two reasons 1. the explanation of the technologies used is purely through use cases and i believe that there is room for improvement there. 2. We should never modify production/application code for the sake of tests, it's ok to refactor your code in order to make it more modular or if you decide that there is a better way of writing your code, but it's never ok to to modify application for testing purposes, it's hard for me to believe that there is no alternative, ofcourse as i said i am a beginner in the android world so this might be the only way when it comes to android development. Overall for experienced or senior developers who come from a different background and want to learn android i think this course is great to get you into the right path.
