Android for Beginners
Go from this to real fast..
Umar Saidu Auna
September 8, 2018
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Hello!
I am Umar Saidu Auna
- Organizer, GDG Minna
- Co-founder, Sysbit Nigeria
- Intern @FlexiSAF
You can fnd e at @umarauna
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What they think I do
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Why Android?
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More than 2 billion devices
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“ If you step back and take a
holistic look, I think any
reasonable person would say
Android is innovating at a
pretty fast pace and getting
it to users.
Sundar Pichai
CEO, Google Inc.
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Why Android?
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Android Versions
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Android Versions
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Android Versions
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Android Versions
Android Versions
8.0 - Oreo 9.0 - Pie
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Layouts
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Android Studio 3.1
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Code Samples
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Interacting with the views through Java code or Kotlin
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Layout file
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Other
Frameworks...
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Native Script
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What Next?
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Imposter Syndrome
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Imposter syndrome (also known as
imposter phenomenon or fraud
syndrome) is a concept describing
individuals who are marked by an
inability to internalize their
accomplishments and a persistent
fear of being exposed as a “fraud".
-Source Wikipedia
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Signs of Impostor Syndrome
You Have Difficulty Accepting Praise.
You Tend to Discount Your Own Success.
You Over Work Yourself.
You always want to be at your Best.
You think it’s too easy — that anyone could do it.
You believe that what you’re doing is never enough.
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How to Over
Come it...
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Accept Who You are
Have confidence that if you have done
a little thing well, you can do a
bigger thing well too.
- David Storey
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Attend Meet Up
> Most Importantly Eat the free food
> Ask Questions or Contribute
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Build something and
put it to the public
Give access to feedbacks
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Take A break
• Take a walk
• Take a run
• Go outside
• Eat something (food)
• Talk to friends and families
• Just do something that doesn’t involve
coding
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Using Technical
Issues
• Join Online Forum
• Ask/Contribute to online Forum
• Contribute to open source
• Code Code and Code
• Surround Yourself with positive people
• and Again Believe in yourself