Lesson 1

In the first lesson of Developing Android Apps, you'll learn how to create and run your first simple Android app. In doing so, you'll explore how to create simple layouts for Android, how Android runs on the phone and the IDE Android Studio.

Lesson 2

In this lesson you'll harness the power of the Internet by connecting Sunshine to the cloud! You'll learn how to make requests to an API and visualize what's returned in your Android app, with an emphasis on performance. You'll also explore modifying the Action Bar of your app to add menu items.

Lesson 3

Many apps need the ability to display large lists of data. You'll learn how to do this efficiently with Adapters and the RecyclerView class. By the end of this lesson, you'll be efficiently showing off many days worth of weather data.

Lesson 4

This lesson is all about making multi-screen apps using Intents. You'll learn how to use explicit intents to open up different app screens. You'll also learn about implicit intents, which are a powerful part of the Android framework that allows you to send and receive data from other apps, such as Google maps, Chrome and a host of social media apps.

Lesson 5

One of the critical parts of Android any good developer needs to understand is the Android Lifecycle. In this lesson you'll learn about how activities are created and destroyed. You'll also learn how to properly persist data between rotations of the device.

Lesson 6

In this lesson, you'll learn how to give users a customized experience by creating Preference screens. You'll practice first adding preferences first in a sample music visualizer app. After that, you'll finish the lesson by adding tempurate and location settings to Sunshine.

Lesson 7

Content Providers are a core Android Framework component that help you provide and manage access to your app's data. In this lesson, yo

Lesson 8

In this lesson, learn how Android Architecture Components can solve common challenges to build robust and efficient apps.

Lesson 9

In this lesson you'll learn about how to effectively run jobs in the background, create notifications and periodically schedule long running background processes. To explore these topics you'll create a Hydration Reminder app that tells the user to drink water via a notification, even when the app is not running..

Lesson 10

This lesson is all about building a user interface that is well-organized and accessible. You’ll be building a boarding pass app where you’ll learn about different styles of layouts, views and view groups, as well as data binding, and accessibility. At the end of the lesson, you’ll use what you’ve learned to improve the layouts used in Sunshine.

Lesson 11

In this final lesson, you’ll learn how to add visual polish to your apps. You’ll be adding details like colors, fonts, and styles to layouts within an app. You’ll also use principles of design to create apps that look great across different sizes of Android devices. By the end of this lesson, you’ll have added some style and color to Sunshine, and completed this course!

Lesson 12

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