Android Pie for Developers

The Android OS has the largest installation base of any operating system in the world; there has never been a better time to learn Android development to write your own applications, or to make your own contributions to the open source community!

This course is your practical guide to building Android applications with Android Pie. You will learn working with the user interfaces, multitouch gestures, location awareness, web services, and device features such as the phone and camera. You will build a shortcut app from scratch which enables you to store your favorite keyboard shortcuts of the day. You will learn how to make your Android apps backward-compatible. You also get useful steps on packaging your application for the Android Market. Each section provides a clear sample code you can use in your projects right away.

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 3 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Android 9.0 Pie: Essential Developer Training, focuses on the latest features that you as an Android developer will find most useful and worth implementing in your applications. You will learn to adopt new features such as display cutout support and rich notifications and animations into your applications to improve the UI experience.

The second course, Firebase and Android Pie, will help you build a complete Android P application from scratch. You will learn how to build a shortcut app which will store your favorite keyboard shortcuts of the day by using firebase. To build this app, you will first create a UI, then set up cloud data synchronization, issue notifications, and more.

The third course, Android App Compatibility: the Complete K-to-P Guide, will help you to make your Android apps backward-compatible and cover common issues faced by developers in Android. You will develop in Java using all its support libraries to see what they are and how they allow you to fight most compatibility issues. You will build a simple application that will allow you to track car fill-ups and review gas stations. During this course, you will take a closer look at uses for compatibility libraries, walk through its most popular pivots, and skillfully resolve them. Finally, you will explore few tools for a more effective market understanding and investigate crashes and A/B testing.

By the end of this course, you will be able to build your own stunning applications with the newest Android version Android 9.0 Pie and solve common problems faced in your day-to-day tasks.

Meet Your Expert(s):

We have the best work of the following esteemed author(s) to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

• Philipp Jahoda is an Austrian Software developer with a strong focus on mobile development for Android (using Java and more recently Kotlin) and iOS. Philipp holds a master’s degree in software development and has been working with Java for more than 10 years. Right now, Philipp is self-employed and works in his own startup company. Besides his professional work, he spends a lot of his free time working on open-source projects. His largest and most successful project so far is MPAndroidChart, a chart/graph library for Android.

• Brandan Jones has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the University of Cincinnati since the 2000-2001 school year. He has taught many courses in programming, from introductory programming to full-stack development. Brandan proposed and created the first Android programming course at the University of Cincinnati and has been teaching it ever since. He reapplied this course and taught it at Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies as well. He is the creator of the PlantPlaces Mobile Android app, which allows users to search for plants by color and GPS plants. He wrote this app in 2012, using TDD principles. He uses selected JSON feeds from that app in the examples in this video course.

• Jonathan Davis was first introduced to Android development during the Fall of 2013, where he took an introductory course in Mobile Device Programming at the University of Cincinnati. In this course, he learned the barebones of Android, all the way from Activities to Intents. He went on to take an Advanced Android Development course at UC. In the spring of 2014, he performed his first real world Android development, when he co-op'd at a local engineering company in Blue Ash Ohio. Here, he began to hone his programming skills and deepen his understanding of various Android frameworks. He graduated in the spring of 2017, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology. More focus was in Software Development. He also has some experience with desktop and web development.