CS305BKK
Mobile Development
Faculty
Carlos Mota
Android GDE,Android Tech Lead & KMP Architect at AVANCEESoftware
Course length
Duration
Total hours
Credits
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Course type
Fee for single course
Fee for degree students
Skills you’ll learn
Overview
Are you searching for a place that teaches you how to start and go through the entire process and content of developing an Android application? Did you know that, currently, there are over three billion Android devices active worldwide that come in the form of smartphones, tablets, watches, TVs’, and even cars?
So, if you want to learn about mobile development for Android look no further. In this course you’ll start from scratch, and you’ll build new features for your app in each class, going from the Android basics through the latest libraries, always following the best practices for development. This course will give you a unique opportunity to have your app running everywhere and anywhere.
Ready? Let’s start!
Learning highlights
- Create, build, and publish an Android application.
- Use Jetpack Compose to build your UI’s. Although Jetpack Compose is the new tool recommended by Google for building UI’s, since you’ll find projects written using XML you’ll also learn how to implement the same features with it.
- Make network requests and parse its responses.
- Use local storage to save data.
Course outline
15 classes
Welcome to (Android) Mobile Development
Course overview.
Getting to Know Android:
- A brief history of (Android) time.
- The Android ecosystem
- How to develop a n app?
- Comparing different Frameworks.
Preparing your development environment:
- Configuring GitHub.
- Creating your Git repo.
- Tools that you're going to need from creating an app to make it available on Google Play Store.
Hello (Kotlin) World!
Android architecture:
- Base components:
- Activities. Activity lifecycle.
- Fragments. Fragment lifecycle.
- Services.
- Intents.
- Broadcast Receivers.
- API's.
Jetpack Libraries:
- Overview of the most common libraries.
Third-party libraries:
- Overview of the most common libraries.
- Accompanist libraries
Hello World:
- Getting to know Kotlin.
- Syntax.
- Fundamentals.
Foundation I
Building your app layouts:
- XML
- Jetpack Compose: Composables
- Imperative UI vs Declarative UI.
- Interoperability between both.
Creating your first app
Foundation II
Building blocks:
- Column, Row, LazyColumn, LazyRow.
- Image, Icon, Text, Box, Button.
- OutlineTextField, TextField, etc.
- Scaffold.
Displaying data:
- Implementing the UI:
- Creating lists
- Scrolling through the list
Foundation III
Managing state.
Defining you app architecture
- MVVM
- Using View Model's and LiveData
Displaying data:
- Implementing the business logic:
- Loading data locally
- Serializing and deserializing data
Office hours
- Projects overview and guidance
Connecting to the Internet
Getting to know the Unsplash API
- Creating an Account
- Exploring the API
- Connecting your app to the Internet
- Internet permission
Requesting data and parsing responses
Asynchronous and heavy operations
- Handling large amounts of data
- Understanding (structured) concurrency
- Working with Coroutines
Creating a secondary screen
Adding pagination to your list
Handling (User) Input
Getting to know the Coil library
- Fetching and displaying images
Searching for a specific subject
- Handling user input
Saving an image locally
- Introduction to Scoped Storage
- Using the Media Store API
- Handling permissions:
- Accompanist library
- Interacting with third party apps:
- Explicit vs Implicit intents
- Open an image in the default gallery
Navigation
Trigger the application to request new data
- Accompanist library:
- Implement swipe to refresh
Implement a secondary screen
- Navigate between them.
Design System and Animations
Customizing your app
- Creating your design system
- Using a custom font
- Defining themes
Animating your composables
Local Storage
Storing data
- Using shared preferences
- Encrypted shared preferences
Getting to know Room
- Adding bookmarks to images
- Support offline mode
Office hours
- Projects overview and guidance
Firebase I
Getting to know Firebase
- Feature set available
Integrating with Firebase
- Configuring Firebase
Real-time databases
- Creating a conversation screen
Firebase II
Continuation of the previous class about Firebase:
- Firestore
- Crashlytics
- Authentication
Testing
Adding a layer of confidence over your code
- What type of tests you can do
- Testing frameworks
- Creating and running tests
Overview of other libraries that you can use:
- Implementing a Splash Screen
- Dependency Injection with Hilt
Publishing your app
Getting to know the Google Play Console:
- Creating your application market page.
- Different publication levels for testing.
Send your app to production.
Office hours
- Preparing for final presentation
What's next?
Key takeaways.
Where to go from here?
- Resources worth exploring
- What should you develop next?
- Other Android platforms to target.
Presentation Day
Course materials
Media
Prerequisites
You’ll use Kotlin throughout this course. Although it’s not mandatory to be familiar with the language, existing programming skills are necessary.
There’s no problem in case you’re not familiar with Kotlin, in the first set of classes you’ll learn the language as well as receive additional resources to help you master it.
Methodology
Throughout this course, you will develop, from scratch, an application until it’s ready to be published in the Google Play Store. In each class, you will add a new feature to it.
In the first part of the lecture, they’ll learn a new concept that will provide you the knowledge to implement the feature. This can go from a language-specific functionality, to the usage of an API, to a new library, etc.
To consolidate what you’’ve learned, you’ll receive homework, which will be evaluated. Along with this, you’ll also receive a quiz with a set of questions related to what you’ve learned in that class.
The homework will either be exercises related with the Kotlin language (initial classes), the development of a secondary application, outside classes, or other topics that were learned during lectures.
You can decide the app that you want to build or select one of the suggested themes.
Grading
Carlos Mota is an Android GDE. He can easily be spotted either working on Android applications written in Kotlin or developing them along with Kotlin Multiplatform. Enthusiastic about new technology he consistently tries to reach the last 20% of all of his side projects that seem to be really far away. He loves to share his knowledge with others either by giving talks, teaching, writing, or along with a cold beer in the nearest pub. GDG Coimbra organizer and Kotlin evangelist, he also has a passion for travel, photography, space, and the occasional run.
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Mobile Development
by Carlos Mota
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Nov 13 - Dec 01, 2023
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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FAQ
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
Do I need a visa?
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Can I get a discount?
Yes. The easiest way to enroll in a course at a discounted price is to register for multiple courses. Registering for multiple courses will reduce the cost per individual course. Please ask the Admissions Office for more information about the other kinds of discounts we offer and what you can do to receive one.