Programming Android apps with Java? Take your skills to the next level with some of the most popular design patterns and APIs for the Android SDK. David Gassner explains how to call and implement callback methods, save instance states and global data, and wrap asynchronous tasks to create a smooth user experience during app configuration changes. Plus, learn how to use Java packages (APIs) to store data, read text, display graphics, play audio, and work with information from device sensors like the accelerometer.

Watch these Java tutorials to learn smarter, more efficient methods for Android app development.

Topics include:

• Preparing the development environment
• Packaging and running Android apps
• Optimizing Java code for Android
• Implementing event handler interfaces
• Defining custom callback methods
• Working with the Android SDK's Java packages
• Storing data
• Reading text files
• Parsing JSON and XML data
• Managing device sensors
• Playing audio

About the Author

David Gassner is the author of over 60 video-based technical training courses for software developers.

David is a senior staff instructor who specializes in development platforms and programming languages including Android and Java. He currently creates training content for Android developers and content that covers multiple programming languages including Java, C#, Visual Basic, and Go. He was formerly the president and founder of Bardo Technical Services, an Adobe Solutions Network Training Provider. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he wrote courseware for Adobe and delivered extensive training on Flex, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Flash. He was the author of Wiley's Flex 3 Bible and Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible. He most recently designed and developed Audio Cues—an Android app for running sound in live performances—which is available in the Google Play store.

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• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 3h 12m
• Instructor: David Gassner

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Android integrates with a variety of cloud-based and custom web services in a variety of ways, including RESTful services created in PHP or Java, to get, update, and send data over the web. This course shows how you can take advantage of web services, integrations, and libraries to optimize how your app handles network connectivity, errors, data management, and more.

IInstructor David Gassner starts with an overview discussion about available networking strategies, and then dives into how to declare networking permissions, make network requests, handle responses, parse data returned from a web service, and pass user credentials to services that support HTTP basic authentication. He also provides an overview of popular higher-level networking libraries, including OkHttp and Picasso, and offers recommendations for improving performance in network-connected apps. David also covers using static feeds, using dynamic PHP pages hosted on a public server web service, and integrating apps with network data storage.

Topics include:

• Integrating mobile apps
• Communicating with Android
• Preventing app freezes with background threads
• Preparing an app for network communication
• Declaring permissions
• Checking network connectivity
• Retrieving data over the web
• Using traditional APIs
• Using third-party libraries

About the Author

David Gassner is the author of over 60 video-based technical training courses for software developers.

David is a senior staff instructor who specializes in development platforms and programming languages including Android and Java. He currently creates training content for Android developers and content that covers multiple programming languages including Java, C#, Visual Basic, and Go. He was formerly the president and founder of Bardo Technical Services, an Adobe Solutions Network Training Provider. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he wrote courseware for Adobe and delivered extensive training on Flex, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Flash. He was the author of Wiley's Flex 3 Bible and Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible. He most recently designed and developed Audio Cues—an Android app for running sound in live performances—which is available in the Google Play store.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 2h 49m
• Instructor: David Gassner

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Software developers who want to build Android apps need Android Studio—the official Google IDE. Android Studio is based on IntelliJ IDEA and contains the same great coding and debugging features plus lots of tools that are unique to Android development: layout editors, resource managers, virtual device support, and more. In this course, instructor David Gassner introduces Android Studio. He helps you set up your environment and your first project and provides handy shortcuts for writing and debugging code. You can also learn how to add version control and share projects on GitHub, manage project dependencies, use templates, and work with Google’s preferred programming language for Android development, Kotlin. By the end of the course, you should be able to use Android Studio to become a faster, even more efficient developer.

Instructor

David Gassner
Technologist, Artist, Educator
David Gassner is the author of over 60 video-based technical training courses for software developers.

David is a senior staff instructor who specializes in development platforms and programming languages including Android and Java. He currently creates training content for Android developers and content that covers multiple programming languages including Java, C#, Visual Basic, and Go. He was formerly the president and founder of Bardo Technical Services, an Adobe Solutions Network Training Provider. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he wrote courseware for Adobe and delivered extensive training on Flex, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Flash. He was the author of Wiley's Flex 3 Bible and Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible. He most recently designed and developed Audio Cues—an Android app for running sound in live performances—which is available in the Google Play store.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Instructor: David Gassner

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Software developers who want to build Android apps need Android Studio—the official Google IDE. Android Studio is based on IntelliJ IDEA and contains the same great coding and debugging features plus lots of tools that are unique to Android development: layout editors, resource managers, virtual device support, and more. In this course, instructor David Gassner introduces Android Studio. He helps you set up your environment and your first project and provides handy shortcuts for writing and debugging code. You can also learn how to add version control and share projects on GitHub, manage project dependencies, use templates, and work with Google’s preferred programming language for Android development, Kotlin. By the end of the course, you should be able to use Android Studio to become a faster, even more efficient developer.

Instructor

David Gassner
Technologist, Artist, Educator
David Gassner is the author of over 60 video-based technical training courses for software developers.

David is a senior staff instructor who specializes in development platforms and programming languages including Android and Java. He currently creates training content for Android developers and content that covers multiple programming languages including Java, C#, Visual Basic, and Go. He was formerly the president and founder of Bardo Technical Services, an Adobe Solutions Network Training Provider. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he wrote courseware for Adobe and delivered extensive training on Flex, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Flash. He was the author of Wiley's Flex 3 Bible and Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible. He most recently designed and developed Audio Cues—an Android app for running sound in live performances—which is available in the Google Play store.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Instructor: David Gassner

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Explore the world of Android app development. The Android Development Essential Training series walks beginners through the process of developing, designing, managing, and distributing Android apps. In this course—the first installment in the series—David Gassner steps through how to create your very first Android app using a mixture of programming languages, including XML and Kotlin. Learn how to configure Android Studio, the Android SDK, and emulator software, and explore the different files in a typical Android app, including build scripts and the app manifest file. Finally, learn how an app is built from the bottom up, with screens, activities, and layouts. Check out later courses in the series to continue building your app development skills.

Topics include:

• Installing Android Studio
• Creating your first Android Studio project
• Managing configuration files, including Gradle scripts
• Defining screens with activities
• Implementing designs in XML layouts

About the Author

David Gassner is the author of over 60 video-based technical training courses for software developers.

David is a senior staff instructor who specializes in development platforms and programming languages including Android and Java. He currently creates training content for Android developers and content that covers multiple programming languages including Java, C#, Visual Basic, and Go. He was formerly the president and founder of Bardo Technical Services, an Adobe Solutions Network Training Provider. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he wrote courseware for Adobe and delivered extensive training on Flex, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Flash. He was the author of Wiley's Flex 3 Bible and Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible. He most recently designed and developed Audio Cues—an Android app for running sound in live performances—which is available in the Google Play store.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 2h 8m
• Instructor: David Gassner

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Android developers who need to manage and present data have many tools available to them in the application framework of Android. This course covers a variety of data persistence techniques, including storing data in shared preferences—key-value pairs—in JSON-formatted text files, and in relational databases with SQLite. Join David Gassner as he demonstrates these data management techniques. He also explains how to use relevant design patterns to model data with Java classes, and how to present data to the user with the Android SDK's ListView and RecyclerView components.

Instructor

David Gassner
Technologist, Artist, Educator
David Gassner is the author of over 60 video-based technical training courses for software developers.

David is a senior staff instructor who specializes in development platforms and programming languages including Android and Java. He currently creates training content for Android developers and content that covers multiple programming languages including Java, C#, Visual Basic, and Go. He was formerly the president and founder of Bardo Technical Services, an Adobe Solutions Network Training Provider. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he wrote courseware for Adobe and delivered extensive training on Flex, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Flash. He was the author of Wiley's Flex 3 Bible and Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible. He most recently designed and developed Audio Cues—an Android app for running sound in live performances—which is available in the Google Play store.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Instructor: David Gassner

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