Building Android apps has traditionally been bogged down by the limitations of Java. In this course, Building Android Apps with Kotlin: Getting Started, you will learn foundational knowledge of both Kotlin as a language and using it to build Android apps while building a real world app along the way. First, you will learn some of the basics that go into building Android apps while using Kotlin. Next, you will discover ways to access remote data over HTTP. Finally, you will explore how to store data locally on the device. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Android and Kotlin together needed to build better apps with cleaner code.
Author Name: Alex Dunn
Author Description:
Alex Dunn leads the mobile development team at EF – Education First and is a Xamarin and Microsoft MVP. His background in mobile application development has leaned into enabling applications to do more for businesses and consumers using scalable architectures, micro-services, cloud infrastructure, and innovative edge technologies. Alex does his best to remain platform agnostic in his practices and development with specialties in C#, Kotlin, Java, Swift, and JavaScript while building for cross-pl… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Getting Started
  15mins
• Creating and Managing Views and Activities
  38mins
• Creating and Managing Fragments
  40mins
• Getting Started with the Wikipedia API and Kotlin Models
  23mins
• Accessing External Data from Wikipedia
  25mins
• Adding Functionality and Data to the View
  23mins
• Storing Local Data
  31mins
• Updating Views with Offline Data and Future Steps
  24mins