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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

For this lesson, let’s assume that the user’s location access falls under dangerous permissions. The app needs to request location permissions before explicitly accessing the GPS location.

Let’s learn how to fetch the device’s last known location using the
 `LocationServices` API.

## Add the library dependency

We need to set up Google Play Services to access the device's GPS location. Add the following library dependency in the `app/build.gradle` file: 

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:20.0.0'

## Declare permissions in the manifest

We need to declare the following permissions in the `AndroidManifest.xml` file to use `LocationServices`.

# Add the library dependency

We need to set up Google Play Services to access the device's GPS location. Add the following library dependency in the `app/build.gradle` file: 

# Declare permissions in the manifest

We need to declare the following permissions in the `AndroidManifest.xml` file to use `LocationServices`.

Learn how to use runtime permissions to access the user’s last known location.

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

Fetching User’s Last Known Location

Add the library dependency

Declare permissions in the manifest