Android Development Essential Training: 3 Navigation

Learn how to create a simple, native Android application using Kotlin. This third course in a four-part series focuses on lifecycle events, views at runtime, and navigation.

Introduction

• Let users explore your app
• What you should know
• Following along with the course

1. Manage Lifecycle Events

• Explore the activity lifecycle
• Trace lifecycle events
• Handle events with LifecycleObserver

2. Manage Views at Runtime

• Handle view events with lambdas
• Explore ViewModels and LiveData
• Add a ViewModel to an Activity
• Store and publish data in a ViewModel
• Subscribe to changes in LiveData values
• ✓ Challenge: Take my order
• ✓ Solution: Take my order

3. Manage Navigation

• Add a new launcher activity
• Handle app communication with Intents
• Start activities with explicit Intents
• Display a button on the toolbar
• Share data with implicit Intents

4. Work with Navigation Menus

• Add a navigation bar to a layout
• Add menu items to a navigation bar
• Handle navigation of menu events
• ✓ Challenge: Badge of honor
• ✓ Solution: Badge of honor

Conclusion

• Next Steps