Do you want to build an application for Android? The Android Development Essential Training series teaches the basics needed to develop, design, manage, and distribute your own native Android application using the Kotlin programming language and the Android SDK. In part 3, instructor Annyce Davis teaches you how to manage lifecycle events, views at runtime, navigation, and navigation menus. Annyce shows you how to inspect and handle lifecycle events on Android, offers a refresher on Kotlin lambdas, and introduces you to ViewModels and LiveData—as well as how you can use both to add and update data. She goes into how to use Intents to communicate with other app components and navigate between activities. Annyce also covers how to display a button on a toolbar and add a navigation bar. Bottom navigation bars make it easy for users to explore and switch between top-level views in a single tap; Annyce explains how to add this to your app, complete with menu items.

Instructor

Annyce Davis
Senior Director of Engineering at Meetup
Annyce Davis is an engineering leader, international conference speaker, and author.

Currently, Annyce is a director of engineering at Meetup. At Meetup, she helps create the future of real community where people show up, do things, and actually talk to each other. Annyce is also a Google Developer Expert. This means that she's dedicated to developing videos, blog posts, and conference talks for the developer community. She's very proud of and passionate about this work. Her ultimate goal with respect to technology is to share her experiences in tech and engineering to inspire others to do the same.

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• Video File Format: MP4
• Instructor: Annyce Davis

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Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world, holding 85% of global market share. That makes Android the natural starting point for new app developers. This series of courses teaches the basics needed to develop, design, manage, and distribute a native Android application using the Kotlin programming language and the Android SDK. Part 1 covers setting up your development environment—on Mac or Windows—including Android Studio and the physical or virtual devices you'll need for testing. Instructor Annyce Davis then explores the structure of a typical Android app as well as the build files, dependencies (external code and libraries used in your project), and prebuilt components available from third-party providers like Jetpack. In the fourth chapter, she pivots to active development, demonstrating how to define the screens of your user interface using activities, XML layouts, and Views. Make sure to take the challenges throughout the course to practice your new skills.

Topics include:

• Setting up Android Studio on Mac and Windows
• Creating virtual devices for testing
• Exploring the project structure
• Using dependencies
• Troubleshooting projects
• Defining screens with activities
• Implementing designs in XML layouts
• Displaying Views in ViewGroups

About the Author

Annyce Davis is an engineering leader, international conference speaker, and author.

Currently, Annyce is a director of engineering at Meetup. At Meetup, she helps create the future of real community where people show up, do things, and actually talk to each other. Annyce is also a Google Developer Expert. This means that she's dedicated to developing videos, blog posts, and conference talks for the developer community. She's very proud of and passionate about this work. Her ultimate goal with respect to technology is to share her experiences in tech and engineering to inspire others to do the same.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 1h 22m
• Instructor: Annyce Davis

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