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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

Unlike iOS, which can only be developed on macOS, Android development can be done on either Windows, Mac OS, or Linux. Moreover, all the tools are freely available for download. This lesson will walk you through setting up your device for Android app development.

# Installing Android Studio

Android Studio is the official IDE for Android app development and provides a host of features. Some of the noteworthy ones are: 
- A Gradle-based build system that can be infinitely customized to get improved build times and can automate mandated tasks.
- A wide variety of emulators, allowing us to test the application on different OS versions and resolutions. 
- GitHub integration to easily leverage version-control capabilities. 
- A host of tools to extensively test the application. 

To get started with Android Studio, download the [latest version](https://developer.android.com/studio) of the IDE for your operating system. 

Follow the steps in the installation wizard to install the application. 


>**Note:** 
>- Mac users might need to allow the IDE access to their calendar, contacts, or photos when prompted. 
>- Ubuntu users on a 64-bit machine would need to install the following libraries on their device: 
>    ```bash
>    sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386
>    ```
>- If you’re using a 64-bit Fedora device, you’ll need to install the following libraries: 
>   ```bash
>   sudo yum install zlib.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 bzip2-libs.i686
>   ```

For more detailed installation instructions, you can refer to the official documentation [here](https://developer.android.com/studio/install). 

# Configuring the IDE

Android studio provides two different configuration files using the Help menu that can be used to configure things like plugin path, heap size, and cache size. Let’s go over some of the common configurations we might want to change.

## Edit custom VM options

The `studio.vmoptions` file lets us configure the heap size and the cache size. Click “Help > Edit Custom VM options” to edit the configs. When we open this file for the first time, it will prompt us to create a new file. Otherwise, it will open the editor window. 



Learn to install Android Studio on your operating system and configure it by manipulating settings.

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

Setup the Development Environment

Introduction

Installing Android Studio