Advanced Android with Kotlin
About this Course
Go beyond the basics of building an Android app with "Advanced Android with Kotlin". This course teaches you how to add a range of advanced features to your app, starting with best practices for using Android's notification system. You'll learn how to create and clip custom views, draw directly to a canvas, and add animations to your apps. You'll also add maps to your apps and learn to style them. Testing an app is as important as building it, so …
Advanced Android with Kotlin
About this Course
Go beyond the basics of building an Android app with "Advanced Android with Kotlin". This course teaches you how to add a range of advanced features to your app, starting with best practices for using Android's notification system. You'll learn how to create and clip custom views, draw directly to a canvas, and add animations to your apps. You'll also add maps to your apps and learn to style them. Testing an app is as important as building it, so you'll learn to test your app to catch and fix bugs so that users never see them. Finally, you'll learn how to let users login to your app with their existing accounts—you'll be surprised how little code it takes.
Develop Feature-Rich Android Apps with the Kotlin Programming Language.
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Kotlin is an official language for Android development, and can be used in a variety of other applications, from back-end development to data analysis. It is an open-source, modern programming language that lets developers use both object-oriented and functional programming techniques. It is concise, safe, and fully interoperable with Java. The community of Kotlin developers is growing rapidly, with major companies like Netflix, Pinterest, and Google using Kotlin.
,This free course was developed by Kotlin experts at Google, and will teach you how to add a range of advanced features to your app, covering topics such as notifications, maps, testing, identity management, and more.
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lesson 1
Notifications
Send messages to users using notifications
Design and style notifications
Add buttons and actions to notifications
Send push messages using Firebase Cloud Messaging
lesson 2
Advanced Graphics
Create custom views for your app
Create and display transformed and clipped regions to the screen
Build an app that allows users to paint directly on the screen
lesson 3
Animation
Use animations to draw attention to important UI elements and beautiful designs
Animate UI elements with property animations
Use declarative XML with MotionLayout to coordinate animations across multiple views
lesson 4
Geo
Add Google Maps to your Android apps
Style maps to fit your design
Enable location services and tracking
lesson 5
Testing
Learn how to test your app before distribution to avoid crashes or unpredicatable behavior
Write and run tests for Android, including AndroidX Test
Test your whole app: UI, data, and code using coroutines, Room, Espresso, and data binding
lesson 6
Login
Implement user login and identity management for your app using the open source library FirebaseUI
Enable login and logout for your app’s users
Control navigation in your app based on whether a user is logged in
