The Android Series

The Android Series is a tool to get you up to speed with Android development very quickly. We will not bother around with unnecessary and outdated stuff and teach you everything you need to know to get job ready!

This is an overview page which we will update every time when there is a new video out. See it as the baseline and a tool for us to held ourselves accountable.

Scheduled

  1. Getting started: Set up your phone and IDE — 10.02.2020
  2. Android project structure basics

Upcoming

  • How to change what I see on the screen (XML)
  • Activity Lifecycle
  • How to react to user input
  • How to deal with configuration changes
  • Where can I store data on Android
  • How can I do network requests
  • How to show lists
  • How to show notifications
  • How to show a Dialog
  • Fragments: How to reuse screens
  • Service: The invisible component
  • Android Application class

Moving on to more advanced topics:

  • How to test your Android app
  • Custom Views
  • Drawing on the Canvas
  • Background Processing in Android
  • How to be backwards compatible
  • Interacting with the operating system: the manifest
  • Gradle in depth
  • Multi module projects