Delve into building Android apps using Kotlin. Gain hands-on experience with tools like Groovy and XML while creating a Travel Blog app for your portfolio.

This course is for anyone looking to build their own Android applications. Ever since Google announced that Kotlin is the language of choice for Android development, Kotlin has become increasingly popular.

In this course, you’ll take a hands-on, project-based approach to developing Android applications. You’ll work with the most common tools that Android developers use every day, including Kotlin, Groovy, and XML. As you learn, you’ll build a fully functional Travel Blog Application that will be a great addition to your portfolio.

By the end of this course, you’ll have tangible experience building an Android application and be ready to build even more complex projects.

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Great practical approach to learn Android Development

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Modern Android App Development with Kotlin

The *Repository* pattern helps us to abstract away the way we retrieve the data. The *Repository* provides a clean API so that the rest of the app can retrieve data easily.

Before implementing the *Repository* pattern, let’s re-factor the `BlogHttpClient`. Since we are not going to use the `BlogHttpClient` directly inside the activity, we can remove the listener from the `loadBlogArticles` method and make it blocking call instead.

Learn and practice a Repository pattern in this lesson.


Android Ecosystem

Hello World

Travel Blog - Login Screen

Travel Blog - Details Screen

Travel Blog - List Screen

Travel Blog - Search & Sort

Travel Blog - Offline

Conclusion

Repository Pattern

Overview of Repository Pattern