Android Development in Kotlin

Overview 

In response to Google’s Kotlin-first policy for Android, every team doing or considering Android development needs to consider Kotlin. This course teaches Android development using Kotlin. On the first day students will learn about Kotlin fundamentals, the remaining four days are dedicated to applying those fundamentals and learning core Android development. 

After completing this course, students will be able to:  

• Understand the Kotlin Language 
• Use Google’s Android Development Tools 
• Build Android applications 
• Combine Kotlin and Java code in Android apps 
• Implement common Android patterns 
• Design Android UIs 
• Test Android applications in an emulator 
• Prepare Android Applications for production 

This course consists of a combination of instructor-led discussion and hands-on lab exercises for students.  

Duration: 5 days 
 
Pre-requisites: Proficiency in any programming language.  

Course Agenda   Android Development in Kotlin
Day	Module	Contents
Day 1	Basic Kotlin	Characteristics of Kotlin Variables and Type  Control Statements  Null Safety
Day 1	Classes and Objects	Construction and Initialization Inheritance, Interfaces and Delegation  Nested Classes  Companion Objects
Day 1	Functions and Lambdas	Parameters Function Types  Lambdas  Higher Order Functions
Day 1	Generics and Collections	Generics Lists Sets Maps
Day 1	Concurrency in Kotlin	Coroutines and Threads Dispatch  Channels  Shared Mutable State
Day 2	Tools	Android Studio Gradle  Virtual devices and the Emulator  Debugging
Day 2	Anatomy of an Application	The Application  Activities  Views  Lifecycle
Day 2	Building a UI	Views Layout Graphical design  XML Layout
Day 2	Notifications	Toasts Status Bar Notification Progress Dialog Other notifications

Day 3	Complex Views	Spinners View Pager Tabs View Flipper
Day 3	Intents	Intents Intent Filters Starting Activities Implicit and explicit targeting
Day 3	Navigation	Menus Action Bar  The back button Gestures
Day 3	Services	Running in the background Starting a service Communicating with a service  Bound Services
Day 4	Content Providers	URLS  Creating a Content Provider  Queries  Inserts
Day 4	Broadcast Receivers	Events  Registering  Intents  Sticky Events
Day 4	Tasks	Handlers  Async Task  Callbacks  Updating the GUI
Day 4	Data	Shared Preferences  Internal Storage SQL Lite  Resource Files
Day 5	Accessing RESTful Services	HTTP  Connections  JSON  Asynchronous requests/responses
Day 5	The WebView	The WebView  Navigation  Local content  JavaScript
Day 5	Fragments	Screen sizes  Responsive Layouts  Alternate Resources  Images
Day 5	Production	Preparing an app for production  Testing  The Play Store  MDM