Overview
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Learn Kotlin, lifecycles, navigation management, and other Android architecture recommendations to build high-quality Android applications.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Build robust apps with Android app architecture
- What you should know
- Review the starting app
- Explore the activity lifecycle
- Trace lifecycle events with Logcat
- Handle events with LifecycleObserver
- Work with synthetic view bindings
- Get view references with findViewById()
- Handle view events with lambdas
- Create companion object functions
- Update display from new data
- Restore state after orientation change
- Add a ViewModel to an activity
- Subscribe to changes in LiveData values
- Add a new launcher activity
- Start activities with explicit intents
- Display a Share button on the toolbar
- Share data with implicit intents
- Finish an activity with an up button
- Define an options menu with XML
- Add a navigation drawer to a layout
- Add icon graphics to menu items
- Add a header to a navigation drawer
- Handle navigation drawer menu events
- Add a navigation toggle button
- Next steps
