Android App - From Beginner to Published on Google Play ✅

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Free Online Course: Android App - From Beginner to Published on Google Play ✅ provided by Skillshare is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 5 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Android App - From Beginner to Published on Google Play ✅ is taught by Grant Klimaytys.

Overview
  • Have you ever thought, "I can't program" ?

    I once thought that but I tried making Android Apps anyway. Turns out it was pretty easy and after a few months I became self employed as an App Developer, ramping up my earnings to the tune of $120,000 per year. 

    Would that amount of money change your life?

    Well this Android course is where it starts, but only if you click the ENROLL button. Give it a try, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain!

Syllabus
    • Introduction and what you will learn
    • Installing Android Studio and creating your first project
    • A quick tour of the Android studio interface
    • Why the need for beautiful Android apps?
    • What exactly is beautiful?
    • Blasphemy. Using Apples app guidelines for Android apps.
    • Designing our UX
    • Testing our current user interface in the Android Simulator
    • Designing the main screen layout in Android XML
    • Designing the add feed layout in Android XML
    • Designing the edit feeds screen in Android XML
    • Setting our app theme in the styles.xml file and Android manifest
    • Connecting up our activities using intents
    • How to set up an SQLite database in an Android app
    • Java code to store and get information from an SQLite database
    • Storing our RSS feed in the SQLite database
    • Setting up a ListView adapter for a list of RSS feeds
    • Editing a ListView and removing elements
    • Android app permissions (accessing the internet in our app via manifest.xml)
    • Creating our RSS Feed Item class to use with the library
    • Installing a library within an Android project
    • Fetching the RSS feed items from the internet (and our first bug)
    • Fixing our RSS library bug using 'try' catch'
    • Placing the collected feed items into our list view using an adapter on Android
    • Making our list look good
    • Creating our RSS item viewer using a web view
    • General monetisation strategies on Android
    • Getting paid via Google Ads (AdMob) on the web view page
    • Test, test and test again!
    • How to create an Android app icon
    • How to sign an Android app for release
    • Creating a Google Developer account for Android
    • Setting up a basic Android app Google Play listing
    • Required icons and Feature graphics for the Google Play Store
    • Android app screenshots for the Google Play listing (aka, free marketing)
    • Easy Task - Validate feed name
    • Intermediate task - Validate RSS address
    • Intermediate Task - Arrange RSS Items by published date
    • Hard task - Create GUI to choose individual feed stories
    • Hard task - Check internet before getting feeds
    • What you have learnt and where to go next