Android App - From Beginner to Published on Google Play ✅
Offered By: Skillshare
Course Description
Overview
Have you ever thought, "I can't program" ?
I once thought that but I tried making Android Apps anyway. Turns out it was pretty easy and after a few months I became self employed as an App Developer, ramping up my earnings to the tune of $120,000 per year.
Would that amount of money change your life?
Well this Android course is where it starts, but only if you click the ENROLL button. Give it a try, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain!
Syllabus
- Introduction and what you will learn
- Installing Android Studio and creating your first project
- A quick tour of the Android studio interface
- Why the need for beautiful Android apps?
- What exactly is beautiful?
- Blasphemy. Using Apples app guidelines for Android apps.
- Designing our UX
- Testing our current user interface in the Android Simulator
- Designing the main screen layout in Android XML
- Designing the add feed layout in Android XML
- Designing the edit feeds screen in Android XML
- Setting our app theme in the styles.xml file and Android manifest
- Connecting up our activities using intents
- How to set up an SQLite database in an Android app
- Java code to store and get information from an SQLite database
- Storing our RSS feed in the SQLite database
- Setting up a ListView adapter for a list of RSS feeds
- Editing a ListView and removing elements
- Android app permissions (accessing the internet in our app via manifest.xml)
- Creating our RSS Feed Item class to use with the library
- Installing a library within an Android project
- Fetching the RSS feed items from the internet (and our first bug)
- Fixing our RSS library bug using 'try' catch'
- Placing the collected feed items into our list view using an adapter on Android
- Making our list look good
- Creating our RSS item viewer using a web view
- General monetisation strategies on Android
- Getting paid via Google Ads (AdMob) on the web view page
- Test, test and test again!
- How to create an Android app icon
- How to sign an Android app for release
- Creating a Google Developer account for Android
- Setting up a basic Android app Google Play listing
- Required icons and Feature graphics for the Google Play Store
- Android app screenshots for the Google Play listing (aka, free marketing)
- Easy Task - Validate feed name
- Intermediate task - Validate RSS address
- Intermediate Task - Arrange RSS Items by published date
- Hard task - Create GUI to choose individual feed stories
- Hard task - Check internet before getting feeds
- What you have learnt and where to go next
Taught by
Grant Klimaytys
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