Modern Streamlined Kotlin Android Development Course

Course Summary

The Modern Streamlined Kotlin Android Development training course focuses on best practices of android development concepts and tools. The course will help increase developer productivity and how to create clean, maintainable code. Students will learn the key features and concepts of Android and Kotlin while building projects.

The course begins with a tour of Kotlin’s most important and useful features followed by advanced features and techniques. During the course, students will be building a sophisticated app along with a number of smaller ones. Next, students will learn about Declarative Views (DV) and how it is the most productive architectural pattern for building Android apps. The course concludes with managing state and event handling along with User Interface (UI) features.

Purpose

Learn the best practices of Android development concepts and tools.

Audience

Software and web developers who are Android newcomers who want to advance their Kotlin skills.

Role

Software Developer - Web Developer

Skill Level

Introduction

Style

Workshops

Duration

1 Day

Related Technologies

Android

Kotlin

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Productivity Objectives:

Demonstrate modern, native mobile development for Android using Kotlin
Explain the native Android platform
Describe best practices
Apply patterns that can be applied to both Android and iOS

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Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
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What You'll Learn

In the Modern Streamlined Kotlin Android Development training course, you'll learn:

Workstation Setup
- Setup Android studio and other developer tools
Kotlin’s Key Concepts
- Brief, high-level overview of Kotlin’s defining features and concepts
Kotlin Whirlwind Tour
- Fast-paced quickstart to Kotlin’s most important and useful features
  - Building the first layer “the business logic” (will be used to build app)
  - Set unit tests
Advanced Kotlin Topics
- Advanced features and techniques of Kotlin (will be used to build the UI and Android portion of app)
- Lambdas and functional programming in Kotlin
- Kotlin’s type-safe builders
- Extension functions
- Annotations
Android’s Key Concepts
- High-level, conceptual overview of Native Android as a development platform
- The good, the bad and the ugly
- How does Native Android fit into the greater mobile and client dev landscape
First Android Project
- Create a simple Android app
- Understanding the project structure
- Exploring Android Studio
- SDKs and AVDs
- Command line tools
- Running and testing apps
- Emulators and devices
- Activities, Layouts, Resources, Views, Manifests
Android UI Landscape
- Approaches, tools and patterns for building UIs
- Overview of approaches and the pros and cons of each
  - XML Files
  - View binding
  - Data binding
  - MVC, MVP, MVVM, MVI
- DV Key Concepts
  - - UI architectural pattern pioneered by the React web framework
    - Now used by Swift UI, React Native, Flutter, and Android’s JetPack Compose
DV with JetPack
- Setting up a project
- Composable
- Creating and using UI components
- Component trees
- Where to put model objects
- Passing data down the component tree
- Ambient
Layout
- Column and Row
- Flow
- Box
- Padding, Alignment
- Spacers, Modifiers
- Gravity
Advanced Layout
- ConstraintLayout
- Expanded
- Lists, tables and grids
- Paging
- Scrollable lists
- Giant lists
Enhancements
- Surface
- Colors
- Styles
- Themes
- Material designs
- Preview mode
Managing State and Event Handling
- Key concepts of Jetpack state management
- Model and state
- Unidirectional data flow
- Where to put state
- Updating state
- How to leave components in update state
- How events are passed up the component tree
- Creating “View Only” components
- Reducers
- Dispatchers
- Handling advanced events
Additional UI Features
- Forms and inputs
- Snacks
- Scaffold
- Drawer
- AppBar
Navigation and Routes
- Internal navigation
- External navigation
- Intents
- Fragments
Lifecycles Events
- Lifecycle owners
- Activity events
- Fragment events
- Best practices
- ViewModels
Background Tasks and Asynch
- Coroutines
- WorkManager
- viewModelScope
- Safe UI updates
Data
- Using HTTP services
- Retrofit and OkHttp
- Local data
- Room
Additional Platform Features
- Permission
- Notifications
The Cross-Platform Mobile Landscape in 2020
- An overview of the current crop of cross-platform tools and strategies
- The WebView strategy
- Embrace the platform vs replace the platform vs hybrid
- 100% common vs 0% common (write two apps) vs 50% common (some of each)
- Targeting 1, 2 pr 3 platforms
- Flutter
- Cross-platform Kotlin
- React Native