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Gain insights into creating efficient Android apps. Learn about layouts, UI components, lifecycle management, and Firebase integration. Delve into practical coding challenges and quizzes to solidify your skills.

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Android

This course covers various aspects of building Android applications, focusing on creating robust and efficient apps. The course is divided into several modules, accompanied by quizzes and coding challenges that will test your understanding of the course.

You’ll start with an overview, which introduces the Android platform and its key features. Then, you will learn the various Android layouts and UI components—how to create and use different layouts, fragments, and custom views. Moreover, you’ll practically learn about activity and lifecycle management, and how to handle images and work with RecyclerViews.

Next, the course covers Android UI components such as bottom navigation bars, alert dialogs, and web views. You’ll learn about intents, notifications, threading, services, app permissions, user location, and Firebase services—including authentication, real-time databases, storage, and cloud messaging.

By the end of the course, you will be able to create functional and well-performing Android applications.

Android Development Masterclass

# Introduction

Firebase makes building and running apps easier as it provides multiple products and solutions for building, releasing, and monitoring our app. Firebase significantly speeds up development time as we can integrate these services into the app with just a few lines of code. Moreover, with Firebase, we don’t have to worry about setting up the backend since it covers the most common use cases.

Firebase offers services for user authentication, NoSQL databases, file storage, app notifications, app analytics, cloud functions, and machine learning, among other things. For example, we can potentially build an app like Instagram using Firebase services. A simple Instagram application requires authentication, a database for user metadata, notifications, storage for images, and a database for user posts, connections, and so on. All of these features can be built using Firebase services.

Let’s learn how to integrate Firebase with our Android application.


# Step 1: Create a Firebase project

First, let’s create a new Firebase project using the Firebase console UI. Open the Firebase console to create a new project. Log in with a Google account to access the console.





Learn how to create a new Firebase project using the Firebase console and add it to our Android project. 

Add Firebase to the Android Project

Learn how to create a new Firebase project using the Firebase console and add it to our Android project.

Overview

Android Layouts and UI Components

Android UI Components

Intents, Notifications, Threading & Services

App Permissions & User Location

Utilizing Firebase Services in Android

Assessment 1: Android Core Concepts

Lifecycle Aware Components

Android Jetpack Components

Data Persistence

Assessment 2: Jetpack Components and Persistence

Networking

Dependency Injection

Performance & Optimization

Android App Testing

Assessment 3: Networking, Performance, and Testing

Conclusion

Appendix

Add Firebase to the Android Project

Introduction