Android Development with Kotlin Training Course

Who should attend

This course is aimed at software developers looking to extend existing skills in Kotlin to develop commercial Android apps.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended our Intro to Kotlin course or have equivalent Kotlin coding experience.

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

We appreciate that you need flexibility to fit in with new working situations - whether you're an individual, part of a distributed team, or simply have projects and deadlines to meet. 

Our remote training can take place online in a virtual classroom, with content split into modules to accommodate your scheduling challenges and meet your learning goals. Get in touch today to find out how we can help design a cost-effective, flexible training solution.

As soon as it's safe, we'll return to also offering the on-site custom training courses and programmes upon which we've built our reputation.

Android Overview

• What is Android?
• Android Devices and Simulators
• Android Programming Languages
• Android Versions
• Android Software Stack
• Applications run on Android OS
• Application Core Building Blocks
• (activities, services, intents, Content Providers, Broadcast Receivers)
• Security and Permissions

Introduction to Android Applications

• Android Studio Introduction
• Android Hello World Application
• Android source files
• Layout Definition file
• Value Resources
• Android Manifest File
• Introduction to Gradle and Project Gradle files
• Running the Application
• Android Debug Bridge
• Packaging an Application
• Android Studio Modules

Lab: Android Hello World Tutorial

Activities

• Application Core Building Blocks Review
• Activities
• Activity Lifecycle & Activity States
• Activity Lifecycle Methods
• Using Logcat
• Saving / Restoring Dynamic State
• Activity Lifetimes
• Lifecycle Aware Components
• Activity Stack
• Processes and Activities
• Process States & Process Termination
• Activities and Tasks
• Activity to Fragment Relationship

Lab: Extending Hello World app with lifecycle aware components

Views and layouts Overview

• UI Components
• Views
• View Hierarchy
• Layouts
• Containers
• Creating displays using Android Studio, XML and programmatically
• Interacting with the App
• UI Events
• Alerts, Toast and Alert Dialogs
• Gestures

Lab: Number Guessing Game App

Intents

• Intents
• Explicit Intents
• Implicit Intents
• Intents Demo App
• Returning Data from launched sub-activity
• Creating a custom sub-activity
• Intent filters

Lab: intents

Services

• Service Introduction
• When to use Services
• Service Lifecycles
• Working with a Service
• SampleService class
• A Started Service Example
• Bound Service
• Intent Service

Lab: Adding an intent Service to the number Guessing Game

Notifications and Broadcast Receivers

• What are notifications
• Working with notifications
• Creating and Issuing a Notification
• Notifications Example
• Broadcasts
• How Apps send Broadcast messages
• Broadcast Architecture
• Broadcast Receivers
• Broadcast Example

Lab: Notification to display guessing game success message

Android Build with Gradle

• Building an Android App
• Gradle
• Gradle Usage
• Gradle Files in Android Project
• Gradle Dependency Management
• Gradle Build Types
• Gradle Flavors
• Gradle Tasks
• The Gradle Wrapper
• Android App Signing

Content Providers

• Content Providers Introduction
• Implementing a Content Provider
• Database Helper class
• Creating a Content Provider
• Accessing a Content provider
• Content Resolver
• Loaders

Lab: Introducing Content Providers

Android Unit Testing

• JUnit Test Framework
• JUnit Annotations
• JUnit Fixtures
• JUnit One-Time Fixtures
• JUnitAssertions
• JUnit Additional Test Support
• Example JUnit Test
• Android Test Framework Options
• Espresso Test Framework for Android
• Espresso Test Example
• Extended tests & mocking
• JUnit and Espresso Module Dependencies

Lab: Writing Tests for Android Apps

Location APIs

• Google Maps Location API Introduction
• Setting up an Android Studio Location App
• Review of Basic Maps Activity
• Google Maps API Key
• Location Client
• User Permissions
• Current Location
• Markers
• Map Types
• Geocoding
• Receiving Location Updates

Lab: Creating a Location App