Overview
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Get a beginner's guide to programming, focused on Android app development. Learn the Kotlin programming language and the foundations of good app design.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching
- How to use the exercise files
- The finished app
- Find and install Android Studio
- Create an Android Studio project
- Install Android SDKs and build tools
- The Android Studio interface
- Change preferences in Android Studio
- Using the Android Emulator
- How programming works
- Variables
- Working with variables
- Using properties
- Connect visual objects to variables
- Enum values
- Private properties and constants
- Practical applications of variables
- Challenge: Create two variables
- Solution: Create two variables
- Methods
- Using methods
- Parameter methods
- Connect a button to a method
- Practical applications of methods
- Challenge: Methods
- Solution: Methods
- Conditional statements
- Using conditional statements
- Boolean values
- Arrays
- Using arrays
- Loops
- Using loops
- When statements
- Using when statements
- Practical examples of conditional statements
- Challenge: Build a mini calculator app
- Solution: Build a mini calculator app
- From building blocks to building apps
- Customize UI objects
- Themes
- Grid layouts
- Arrange buttons in a grid layout
- Finish the user interface
- View the app's code structure visually
- Set up properties and methods
- Connect all of the visual elements to code
- Display tapped numbers in the calculator
- Make the Clear button clear all values
- Set the calculator to add or subtract
- Show the total when the equals button is tapped
- Format the number
- Challenge: Multiplication button
- Solution: Multiplication button
- Next steps
