Gain insights into MVVM architecture in Android with Kotlin. Learn about networking with Retrofit, local storage with Room, and pagination. Discover how to build scalable, maintainable apps.

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The course focuses on the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture in Android development using Kotlin. The MVVM is widely recommended due to its robustness, scalability, and ease of maintenance. It is a valuable skill to have for building high-performance Android applications.

Firstly, you will learn the basics of MVVM architecture and its advantages over other approaches to Android development. Then, you'll start from scratch and create layouts for a news application. Next, you'll use the Retrofit and OkHttp networking libraries and get to familiarize yourself with APIs. You'll get hands-on experience in storing data locally via the Room library. Finally, you'll be introduced to both the repository and ViewModel patterns, as well as how to work with the Paging library and deliver data to our fragments.

By the time you’re done with the course, you’ll be able to use MVVM in your Android projects, interact with APIs, store data locally, and implement pagination.

Mastering MVVM Architecture in Android Development using Kotlin


In this course, we’ll familiarize ourselves with the tools, technologies, and techniques to build scalable and testable Android applications. For an application to be scalable, it’s important that we structure our code so that other developers can understand and be able to improve or expand on it.
Some of the core concepts that we'll learn in this course are:

- Building scalable applications
MVVM architecture
- Using Android Jetpack Components
- Offline applications
- Working with web services and the overall networking of an Android application

To better understand and solidify our understanding of the major concepts of MVVM architecture, we’ll build a news application like the one in the images below.


Get an overview of the Android application development techniques that employ ModelView- View-Model architecture.

Introduction

MVVM Architecture

Layouts

Layout Design Assessment

API

Android Web Services Assessment

Utility Classes

Repository Pattern

ViewModel Pattern

Android Business Logic Assessment

Views

Conclusion

Appendix

Course Overview