Android Development Essential Training Part 2

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course Android Development Essential Training Part 2. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world, holding 85% of global market share. That makes Android the natural starting point for new app developers. This series of courses teaches the basics needed to develop, design, manage, and distribute your own native Android application using the Kotlin programming language and the Android SDK. Part 2 explains how to build a simple yet responsive user interface with built-in Android components, themes, and styles. Instructor Annyce Davis also explains how to collect and display user-entered text; display system messages; and localize your app interface. Plus, find out how to load and display images, including web resources, SVG-like images called vector drawables, and app icons, to enhance the user experience of your app. Make sure to take the challenges throughout the course to practice your new skills.

Learning objectives

• Using ViewGroup components
• Managing view position with constraints
• Getting view references
• Managing data entry of text
• Displaying text
• Displaying images
• Defining custom themes and styles

Instructions

This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in GitHub to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.

Branches

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The master branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.

Installing

1. To use these exercise files, you must have the following installed:
   • Android Studio
2. Clone this repository into your local machine using the terminal (Mac), CMD (Windows), or a GUI tool like SourceTree.

Instructor

Annyce Davis

Software Developer, Speaker, Author

Check out some of my other courses on LinkedIn Learning.