Professional Android App Development

Offered By: Galileo University via edX

Course Description

Overview

Learn mobile application development on the Android platform by acquiring strong knowledge of Android SDK and different versions of Android. You will gain familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services and will practice with Genymotion emulator.

As a part of this course, you will create widgets, customize list views and create 5 applications using Facebook, Twitter, maps & location based services. You will test Android-based mobile applications using Android testing tools such as Mockito.

This Android course is taught by a group of Google Developer Experts and other industry professionals, who develop innovative mobile apps .

This course is part of the GalileoX Android Developer MicroMasters Program that is specifically designed to teach the critical skills needed to be successful in this exciting field and to prepare you to take the Google Associate Android Developer Certification exam. In order to qualify for the MicroMasters Credential you will need to earn a Verified Certificate in each of the four courses as well as Final Project.

Syllabus

Lesson 1

Android Architecture
Android Architecture (Implementation)
About Firebase
User Interface (UI)
Libraries
Working with my App
Setup Description
Chat Login
Contact List
Add Contact
Chat

Lesson 2

Dart and Henson (Tutorial)
Dependency Injection
User Interface (UI)
Working with my App
Twitter Kit (Tutorial)
TwitterClient Setup, Domain, Libs
TwitterClient Login
TwitterClient Main
TwitterClient Images
TwitterClient Hashtags
Navigation Drawer (Tutorial)
Firebase Cloud Messaging (Tutorial)

Lesson 3

Libraries
API
User Interface (UI)
Working with my App
Facebook SDK (Tutorial)
FacebookRecipes Setup, Domain, Libs
FacebookRecipes Login
Volley, Retrofit 2 and OkHTTP
FacebookRecipes RecipeMain
GreenDAO, ORMLite and SugarORM
FacebookRecipes RecipeList
Realm

Lesson 4

Maps
Camera
Working with my App
PhotoFeed Setup, Domain, Libs
Firebase DB Rules
PhotoFeed Login
PhotoFeed Main Activity
Open Street Maps (Google maps alternative)
Take pick photo
Map-Fragment

Lesson 5

Testing
Libraries
Setup
Testing API
MockWebServer (Tutorial)
RecipeMain
RecipeList
Advanced Espresso
Firebase Test Lab

Taught by

Adrián Catalán (GDE)