Maintain Android Apps with Jetpack Architecture Components

Are you willing to learn all new Android Jetpack Architecture components and features in order to deliver an extendable, maintainable, and testable codebase? Then this course is for you!

With this comprehensive guide, you'll first get started with understanding Architecture Components & exploring data binding library. Then you will learn to handle lifecycles, ViewModel, navigation architecture component & much more. Moving further, you’ll not only be able to improve the performance but also enhance the UI of your application to a whole new level using advanced Architectural Components. to enhance the UI of your app, which gives you more control on your app and makes it easy to maintain.

By end of this course, you'll be able to develop professional grade apps for the latest Android version and become a pro-Android developer with reduce the lines of code and efficiently writing your Android application in a modern way.

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Android Jetpack Architecture Components will show you all new Android Jetpack Architecture components and features. You will develop Android applications by making use of all the architecture components available with Jetpack to reduce bugs in your codebase and provide seamless and smooth application development. Adding architectural components to your projects will increase their scalability and reduce code bugs. By the end of the course, you will know how to use Jetpack to manage background tasks, navigation, paging, life-cycle management, and much more.

The second course, Modernizing Your Android Applications you’ll take an existing Android application build in Java and modernize it using the Kotlin language, seeing the importance of planning the architecture using SOLID principles and common Android Architecture using the MVP, MVC, and MVVM patterns. Moving on, you’ll implement Life Cycle Aware Components, use the viewmodel LiveData framework, and perform data management and persistence with the Room persistence solution. You’ll see how Kotlin efficiently accelerates the development by improving the code base. With the advanced Architectural Components, you’ll not only be able to improve the performance but also enhance the UI of your application to a whole new level. By the end of this course, you’ll have modernized your Android app using all the new features from coding it in Kotlin to implementing Architecture Components to enhancing the UI of your app, which gives you more control on your app and makes it easy to maintain.

About the Authors:

• Annapurna Agrawal is an Android developer. She has also tried her hands on JavaScript, Kotlin, PHP, jQuery, CSS, and HTML. She is a software engineer from India and likes teaching. She is one of the trainers in the Google Developers Group at Bhubaneswar, Odisha in India. Besides all this, she practices yoga and meditation, YouTubing, and hanging out with friends. We are definitely going to get the best of quality here from her.

• Yusuf Saber is an Android developer with over 5 years' professional experience. Yusuf earned his master's degree in Computer Engineering from Ryerson University in 2011 and started his career as a .NET developer before quickly turning to Android. He has worked on a large range of Android apps, from social to multimedia to B2B and more!