Academy Workshops

1. Tools & Project structure

• Java
• Kotlin
• Android Studio
• Project setup
• SDK manager
• Monitor/DDMS
• Emulator
• ADB
• Gradle
• Maven
• Support libraries
• Manifest
• Project structure
• Packages
• Code formatter
• Tech stack
• Templates and utilities
• Resources, news, dev support

2. Activities

• Application class
• Config class
• Activity
• Fragment
• Lifecycle
• Context

3. Layouts & Views

• FrameLayout, LinearLayout, RelativeLayout
• CoordinatorLayout
• StatefulLayout
• Basic views (text, button, checkbox, image, edittext, progress, webview)
• Toolbar, FAB, NavigationView, SwipeRefreshLayout
• Toast, Snackbar, AlertDialog
• Intro to RecyclerView
• Intro to ViewPager
• Include, merge

4. Styles & Resources

• Theme
• Style
• Text appearance
• Resources (dimens, colors, strings)
• Drawable (vector, shape, 9-patch)
• Selector
• Menu

5. Intents & Permissions & Notifications

• Bundle, Parcelable
• Start Activity
• Implicit Intent
• Intent filters
• Deep linking
• Permissions
• Notifications
• Broadcast receiver
• Intro to SharedPreferences

6. Logging & Debugging

• Monitor
• Logcat utility
• Debugger
• Developer options in Settings menu
• Tools

7. MVVM architecture

• Model, View, ViewModel
• Responsibilities of layers
• Handling orientation change
• Libraries

8. Data binding

• Layout file, variables
• Binding class
• Events (lambda, method reference)
• Include
• Expressions
• Observable (fields, collections, BaseObservable)
• BindingAdapter
• BindingConversion
• Data binding & MVVM

9. RecyclerView & ViewPager

• Adapters
• ViewHolder pattern
• RecyclerView, LayoutManager
• ViewPager
• Generic adapters

10. Dialogs

• DialogFragment
• Basic dialogs (simple, items, single/multi choice, progress, custom)
• Bottom sheet
• Data binding in dialog
• Dialog theme
• Arguments and result

11. Threading & Background tasks

• Main thread
• Handler
• AsyncTask
• Service
• IntentService

12. RxJava (optional, advanced)

• Basics (observable, special observables, observer)
• Creators (just, create, from)
• Operators
• Schedulers, compose
• Composite subscription
• Flowable, backpressure, cold VS hot
• Subject
• RxManager, RestRxManager
• RxBus

13. REST

• OkHttp library
• Interceptors
• Retrofit library
• GSON parser library
• Call manager
• Network utility
• Retrofit & RxJava

14. Image processing & Media

• Glide
• Binding adapter
• Picking image from gallery/camera
• MediaPlayer
• ExoPlayer

15. Database & Preferences

• ORM (Room, DBFlow, ORMLite)
• Realm
• SharedPreferences, PreferenceFragment

16. Firebase (optional)

• Web panel
• Firebase realtime database
• FCM
• Firebase & RxJava

17. Map & Geolocation

• Google APIs Console
• Maps API
• Geolocation

18. Animations

• Property animations
• Animations with CoordinatorLayout
• Activity transitions
• Page transformer

19. Testing

• Unit tests
• UI tests

20. Build & Deployment

• Keystore
• Gradle script
• Build APK
• Run tests
• Play Store Developer Console
• CI

21. Best practices & Guidelines

• Best practices
• Common mistakes
• Preventing memory leaks
• Android Coding Guidelines
• Google Design Guidelines