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Android App - From Beginner to Published on Google Play ✅

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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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