The Android Kotlin Fundamentals course was created by the Google Developers Training team. In the course, you learn Android Kotlin programming concepts and build a variety of apps.
Lesson 1: Build your first app
Lesson 1 teaches you how to set up Android Studio to use Kotlin and how to build apps. You start with "Hello World" and move up to an app that uses image files and a click handler. You learn how Android projects are structured, how to use and modify views in your Kotlin Android app, and how to make sure your apps are backward-compatible. You also learn about API levels and the Android Jetpack libraries.
For updated content on building your first Android app, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 1: Your first Android app.
Lesson 2: Layouts
In Lesson 2, you learn how to use the Android Studio Layout
Editor to create linear layouts and constraint layouts. You create apps that
get and display user input, respond to user taps, and change the visibility and
color of views. This lesson also teaches you how to use data binding to
eliminate inefficient calls to the findViewById() method.
For updated content on Layouts, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 1: Your first Android app and Android Basics with Compose Unit 2: Building app UI.
Lesson 3: Navigation
In Lesson 3, you learn how to create useful navigation in an app. You create a fragment and add it to an app, then add navigation to the app using the Android Studio navigation graph. You add a navigation drawer and an options menu to your app, and you work with the app's back stack, changing the destination of the system Back button. Finally, you learn how to invoke an external activity from within the app.
For updated content on Navigation, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 4: Navigation and app architecture.
Lesson 4: Activity and fragment lifecycles
In Lesson 4, you learn about the activity and fragment lifecycles, and you learn how to manage complex lifecycle situations. You work with a starter app that contains several bugs related to the Android lifecycle. You add logging to the app to better understand the app's lifecycle events, and you fix the bugs that the app contains and add some enhancements to the app. You also learn about Android Jetpack's lifecycle library, which can help you manage lifecycle events with code that's better organized and easier to maintain.
For updated content on Activity lifecycles, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 4 Pathway 1: Architecture Components. For updated content on fragment lifecycles with View-based UI, please visit Android Basics in Kotlin Unit 3 Pathway 1: Navigate between screens
Lesson 5: Architecture components
Lesson 5 teaches you how to use ViewModel and LiveData objects.
You learn how to use ViewModel objects to enable data to survive configuration
changes such as screen rotations. You convert an app's UI data into encapsulated
LiveData and add observer methods that are notified when the value of the
LiveData changes.
You also integrate LiveData and ViewModel with data binding so that the
views in your layout communicate directly with ViewModel objects, without
using the app's fragments to relay information. This technique simplifies
your code and eliminates the need for click handlers in the UI controllers.
For updated content on Architecture components, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 4 Pathway 1: Architecture Components.
Lesson 6: Room database and coroutines
Lesson 6 teaches you how to use the Room database library. Room takes care of many of the chores of setting up and configuring a database, and simplifies the code for interacting with the database. You learn how to use Kotlin coroutines to move database operations away from the main thread, and you learn more about using ViewModel and LiveData with app navigation.
For updated content on Room, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 6 Pathway 2: Use Room for data persistence. For updated content on coroutines, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 5 Pathway 1: Get data from the internet.
Lesson 7: RecyclerView
Lesson 7 teaches you how to use a RecyclerView to efficiently display lists and grids of items. For complex lists and grids, you learn ways to make RecyclerView more efficient and your code easier to maintain and extend. You learn how to make items in a RecyclerView clickable. You also learn how to add more than one view holder and layout to lists and grids in a RecyclerView, for example, to add a header in your app.
For updated content about lists, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 3: Display lists and use Material Design.
Lesson 8: Connecting to the internet
Lesson 8 teaches you how to use community-developed libraries to connect to a web service to retrieve and display data. You learn how to handle potential network errors and use the Glide library to load and display photos from the internet. You also build a RecyclerView and use it to display a grid of images.
For updated content on connecting to the internet, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 5: Connect to the internet.
Lesson 9: Repository
Lesson 9 teaches you how to add a repository to abstract the data layer and provide a clean API to the rest of the app in your Android Kotlin app. You also learn how to use WorkManager to schedule background tasks in an efficient and optimized way.
For updated content on Repository, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 5: Connect to the internet.
Lesson 10: Designing for everyone
This lesson teaches the basics of Android app design. It introduces themes and styles, material design, and how to make your app more accessible to everyone.
For updated content on Android app design, please visit Android Basics with Compose Unit 3 Pathway 3: Build beautiful apps.