Android Development Essential Training: App Architecture with Kotlin

Learn Kotlin, lifecycles, navigation management, and other Android architecture recommendations to build high-quality Android applications.

Introduction

• Build robust apps with Android app architecture
• What you should know
• Review the starting app

1. Handle and Manage Lifecycle Events

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

2. Manage View Objects at Runtime

• Work with synthetic view bindings
• Get view references with findViewById()
• Handle view events with lambdas
• Create companion object functions
• Update display from new data
• Restore state after orientation change
• Add a ViewModel to an activity
• Subscribe to changes in LiveData values

3. Manage Navigation

• Add a new launcher activity
• Start activities with explicit intents
• Display a Share button on the toolbar
• Share data with implicit intents
• Finish an activity with an up button

4. Work with Navigation Menus

• Define an options menu with XML
• Add a navigation drawer to a layout
• Add icon graphics to menu items
• Add a header to a navigation drawer
• Handle navigation drawer menu events
• Add a navigation toggle button

Conclusion

• Next steps