What you’ll learn

• Learn the core Android app development and Kotlin skills to build real Android apps.

• Learn how to target current and older versions of Android when writing your apps.

• Understand how to create Android apps using Kotlin.

• Be able to apply for Android app development roles.

Requirements

• A Windows computer, a Mac, or a Linux machine so that the free Google Android Studio tool can be downloaded and install (full instructions included).
• An open mind to learn something new and exciting which may make a huge difference in your future career.
• Everything else needed to write apps for Android 8 Oreo with Kotlin is already included in the course.

Description

What do you get in this course?

In this course, you will discover the power of Android app development, and obtain the skills to dramatically increase your career prospects as a software developer. You’ll also have a head start over other developers using obsolete tools and earlier versions of Android.

Android is continually being updated and you’ll learn how to target but users of current versions of Android and older versions as well.

With this course, you get the best of both worlds. You’re taught to write code for Android that works with the current version and older versions of Android by using the AppCompat library. That way, the apps you build will work with more versions of Android, giving you access to a wider audience of users.

Should you write Android apps that target only the very latest version of Android?

If you have an iPhone or iPad, chances are high that you update each year to the latest iOS release – most users do.

The situation is completely different with Android. Only a relatively small percentage of Android users update their phones annually.

If you write your apps to only support the latest version of Android, you will ensure 95% of your potential user base will never see your app.  The Google app store will only show apps that a users Android device can run, so if their device is not running the latest version of Android, they won’t even be able to find your app on the Google play app store!

How do you make sure your app targets older versions of Android?

Android development is less about making sure you are creating apps that work with the latest version of Android, and more about ensuring your apps work with whatever versions of Android your users are running.

Google are aware of this problem and have something call the AppCompat library.  Which is a way for you to ensure your apps work on older devices.

This is not enabled by default.  Meaning that if you do not specifically configure your app to use this library and target older devices and newer ones, it either won’t show up at all for users searching for your app, or older Android devices running your app might crash because they are trying to access features that do not exist in their version of Android.

The key is to use this library.  And that’s what you will learn in this course.

Does that mean that your apps can only use features from really old Android versions?

No it does not.  The AppCompat library is constantly updated by Google.  They go back and add features to the library which allows older Android devices to access newer features of Android.

But again, this is not turned on by default.  You have to create and write your Android apps in a particular way to have your Android app be able to work correctly for current and older versions of Android.

Should you learn Kotlin?

Fast forward a few years and everyone is using Swift.  This is starting to happen with Android app development. Developers who used to use  Java are switching to Kotlin.  You can see why Google want this to happen.  They have been in court numerous times with Oracle (the owners of Java) relating to a dispute over the use of the Java language.

Google want developers to adopt Kotlin so that they don’t have to worry about Java any more.

The recent Google I/O conference show mainly Kotlin code examples.  You can see where we are heading.  Kotlin is the future for Android app development.

Soon there will be few Java developers writing Android apps – they will be using Kotlin.

The good news is, we’ve bundled a complete Kotlin tutorial we wrote from scratch with the course.  So not only do we use Kotlin in this course (teaching best practices along the way), but we also include a complete Kotlin tutorial as well. You will learn how to use the Kotlin language in this course.

What else will you learn?

You will  learn how Android works at a deep level. Many courses show you how to create Android apps, allowing you to follow along clicking buttons but not really understanding what it happening.

To become a successful Android app developer, you need to understand why you are clicking that button, and how the Android operating system works and how the Android SDK and Framework works.

If you truly understand how something works, it means you can produce better quality apps, that have fewer bugs.

Importantly, our courses teach students the real-life skills needed to get those in-demand jobs or further your programming skills.

Take this course in confidence today knowing you have just found the BEST Android Kotlin course on Udemy!  Don’t delay. Every minute you’re not learning Android is a missed opportunity for that PERFECT high paying job.

Click the BUY NOW button and start learning. The world needs your new apps!

Who is the target audience?

• This course is perfect for absolute beginners with no previous programming experience.
• However, if you’re already an expert Android Kotlin programmer with knowledge of all the latest updates, then this course is not for you.
• Existing Android Java Programmers who want to transition to Kotlin for Android app development.

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