Android Basics: Networking

This course is a part of the Android Basics Nanodegree by Google.

Android apps are everywhere and learning to build them can be a fantastic career move. Continue on your Android app development education and learn to build multi-screen apps!

This course is designed for students who have completed the Android for Beginners course and the Android Basics: Multiscreen Apps course. You don’t need any programming experience besides that course!

Learning anything new can be tough. We will walk you through the process of making Android apps, but to get the most out of this course, bring your enthusiasm for learning, and budget time on your calendar to learn with us. It will be an adventure!

By the end of the course, you’ll build an app that gets you up to date earthquake information!

If you’re curious about the road even farther ahead, these are the free courses that make up the Android Basics Nanodegree, in order:

• Android Basics: User Interface
• Android Basics: User Input
• Android Basics: Multiscreen Apps
• Android Basics: Networking (This Course)
• Android Basics: Data Storage

• JSON Parsing
• Discover the power of Web Apis and how they can be used in an Android App.,Get practice reading API documentation and learn how to request data from an API using a web browser.,Learn the essentials of JSON, a common HTTP Response format.
• HTTP Networking
• Harness the essentials of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol to exchange data between an Android device and a web server.,Learn about the components that are needed to compose an HTTP GET Request.,Harness the HttpUrlConnection class to compose a request to the USGS API.
• Threads and Parallelism
• Learn about how you can use threads to do time consuming work in the background while keeping an Android App's User Interface fast and responsive.,Get a comprehensive overview of AsyncTask and Loaders, two important threading options exposed by the Android Framework.,Discover how to persist user settings using Shared Preferences.