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Learn the essentials of Android app development. Find out how to build simple and responsive user interfaces using Kotlin and the Android SDK.
Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world, holding 85% of global market share. That makes Android the natural starting point for new app developers. This series of courses teaches the basics needed to develop, design, manage, and distribute your own native Android application using the Kotlin programming language and the Android SDK. Part 2 explains how to build a simple yet responsive user interface with built-in Android components, themes, and styles. Instructor Annyce Davis also explains how to collect and display user-entered text; display system messages; and localize your app interface. Plus, find out how to load and display images, including web resources, SVG-like images called vector drawables, and app icons, to enhance the user experience of your app. Make sure to take the challenges throughout the course to practice your new skills.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- User interface design
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Position views with LinearLayout
- Manage positions with constraints
- Distribute views with constraint chains
- Display views programmatically
- Get view references with findViewById()
- Get view references with view binding
- Challenge: Get in line
- Solution: Get in line
- Manage string values as resources
- Manage data entry with EditText
- Manage data entry with TextInputLayout
- Use string resources with placeholders
- Display Snackbar messages
- Challenge: Get to know you
- Solution: Get to know you
- Display image resources
- Load image resources at runtime
- Reduce file size with WebP images
- Use XML-based VectorDrawable images
- Create icons in Android Studio
- Challenge: Load a network image
- Solution: Load a network image
- Define visual styles and themes
- Configure Material Design theme colors
- Define custom styles
- Next steps
