Road to become an Android Developer

slides for UCSY IT Camp 2019

*useful links*
- https://developer.android.com/docs
- https://developer.android.com/courses
- https://www.udacity.com/course/android-basics-user-interface--ud834
- https://www.udacity.com/course/android-basics-user-input--ud836
- https://www.udacity.com/course/android-basics-multiscreen-apps--ud839
- https://www.udacity.com/course/android-basics-data-storage--ud845
- https://www.udacity.com/course/android-basics-networking--ud843
- https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud9012

Transcript

1. ANDROID DEVELOPER ROAD TO BECOME AN @myolwin00 Photo credit - https://developer.android.com/courses/images/android-new-programmers.svg
2. TOOLS ▸ Android Studio ▸ Gradle
3. LANGUAGE ▸ Java ▸ Kotlin ▸ Xml
4. FUNDAMENTAL STUFFS ▸ Activity ▸ Lifecycle ▸ Intents ▸ Fragments ▸ Services ▸ BroadcastReceiver ▸ Content Providers
5. UI STUFFS ▸ ViewGroups (FrameLayout, LinearLayout, ScrollView, RelativeLayout, GridLayout, ConstraintLayout, MotionLayout, etc.) ▸ Views (TextView, ImageView, Button, EditText, RadioButton, Checkbox, Spinner, WebView, etc.)
6. DESIGN (MATERIAL.IO) ▸ Color Tool (https://material.io/tools/color/) ▸ Icons (https://material.io/tools/icons/) ▸ Build Material Theme (https://material.io/tools/build-a- material-theme/) ▸ Android Asset Studio (https://romannurik.github.io/ AndroidAssetStudio/)
7. FIREBASE ▸ Authentication ▸ Realtime Database ▸ Cloud Storage ▸ Crashlytics ▸ Cloud Messaging ▸ ML Kit (Beta)
8. THE FUTURE ▸ AndroidX ▸ Jetpack (Navigation, Work Manager, etc) ▸ Architecture Components ( LiveData, ViewModel, Room, Paging)
9. WHERE TO LEARN ▸ https://www.udacity.com/ ▸ https://www.raywenderlich.com/
10. COMMONLY USED LIBRARIES ▸ Glide (image loading and caching library) ▸ Retrofit (type-safe HTTP client for Android&Java) ▸ Gson (Java serialization/deserialization library) ▸ ButterKnife (Field and method binding for Android views) ▸ Timber (logger with a small, extensible API)
11. ADVANCED ANDROID DEVELOPMENT ▸ Reactive programming (RxJava, RxKotlin) ▸ Architectures (MVC, MVP, MVVM, etc.) ▸ Dependency Injection (Dagger) ▸ Testing (Unit tests, UI Tests)
12. STAY UP TO DATE ▸ Android Dev Summit (https://developer.android.com/dev- summit) ▸ Google I/O (https://events.google.com/io/) ▸ Fragmented Podcast (https://fragmentedpodcast.com/) ▸ FirebaseSummit ▸ Android Dev Blog (https://android- developers.googleblog.com/)
13. SAMPLES ▸ Google Samples (https://github.com/googlesamples/) ▸ Architecture Sample (https://github.com/googlesamples/ android-architecture) ▸ UI Design Sample (https://github.com/android/plaid) ▸ Jetpack Sample (https://github.com/googlesamples/ android-sunflower) ▸ Production App Sample (https://github.com/google/ iosched)
14. QUESTION TIME ! THANK YOU.