Android Basics: Networking

Discover the power of Web APIs and how to use them in your apps, and learn the basics of networking in Android, including HTTP networking, JSON parsing, and threads.

• Introduction to Networking in Android
• Welcome to Android Basics: Networking! We'll get you set up for success with an introduction, prerequisites, and you'll set up your tools and environment for the course.
• JSON Parsing
• Learn how to parse JSON, one of the most useful data formats.
• HTTP Networking
• Learn how to connect to the internet in your Android code.
• Practice Set: JSON Parsing and HTTP Networking
• Practice applying what we learned about JSON Parsing and HTTP Networking.
• Threads & Parallelism
• Learn how to use threads to make your device do multiple things at once!
• Java Practice: Control Flow and Conditionals
• Use if-else statements and switch-case statements to write Java programs to tackle any decision making scenario.
• Preferences
• In this lesson, you'll learn how to set and store user preferences in Android
• News App
• For this project, create an app to display recent news stories on a topic of your choice using an API.