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Become an Android Kotlin Developer

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Course Report - Become an Android Kotlin Developer

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Course Features

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Duration

4 months

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

10 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Android holds 75% of global market share in mobile operating systems. The Android Developer with Kotlin Nanodegree program teaches you how to create cutting-edge apps using the most popular mobile platform in the world. According to GitHub, Kotlin is the fastest growing programming language. It's used by more than 60% of professional Android developers because it increases productivity, developer happiness and code safety. Google, Square and CapitalOne are all using Kotlin to develop their apps. Android app development is becoming increasingly Kotlin-first. This makes it a great time to learn Kotlin.

Course Overview

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Job Assistance

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Personlized Teaching

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International Faculty

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Post Course Interactions

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Hands-On Training,Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

Be comfortable with Object-Oriented Programming

Be familiar with threads and concurrency, and with modular app architectures

Have experience navigating GitHub, and be comfortable using a Modern IDE

Have familiarity with Kotlin language syntax

What You Will Learn

create dynamic and navigable interfaces using constraint-based layouts

establish app parameters

how to use Firebase for authentication and remote storage

integrate app functionality with other apps or components with Android

Learn how to build an app with location awareness and Google Maps

Use common Android UI components to create a basic user interface

You will also be able to create simple animations to enhance the presentation of content and overall usability of the app

You will also learn best practices and techniques for testing to enable you to scale your app quickly and more safely, while mitigating any negative effects

display collections of data to users using RecyclerView, and use APIs to connect to, store, and retrieve data

handle user input and Android lifecycle events

learn how to enhance your app’s functionality and drive user engagement using Android’s robust notification system, build custom views, and use canvas drawing to allow for the update of a display based on user interactions

learn how to implement data persistence in your app

you will also learn best practices of Material Design to create a quality user experience and learn how to make an app more accessible to as many users as possible

you’ll also learn how to use the Gradle build process to declare library dependencies

Target Students

Junior to Mid-Level Android Developer

Professional

Course Instructors

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Aleks Haecky

Developer Advocate

Aleks is a Writer and Developer Advocate with over 20 years of experience developing media and tools that bring technologies and programming to developers. They believe in the power of education, and...
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Asser Samak

Android Developer Advocate at Google

Aser has been building educational Android apps with Udacity & Google for the past 4 years, he enjoys teaching with a focus on best-practices and building a solid foundation at an early stage. Aser l...
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Caren Chang

Developer Programs Engineer

Caren is a Developer Programs Engineer for the Android Frameworks team at Google.
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Chet Hasse

Chief Android Advocate at Google

After being on, and leading, the UI Toolkit team on Android for several years, Chet joined the Developer Relations team. His focus and passion has always been UI, graphics, animation, performance, an...
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