Gain insights into developing Android apps using Java, Groovy, and XML. Discover hands-on, project-based learning while building a fully functional Travel Blog Application for your portfolio.

So, you want to learn to build your own Android apps? You’ve come to the right place.

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 Java, 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 built a fully functional Android application and be ready to build even more complex projects.

Modern Android App Development with Java

# Toolbar menu

In a similar manner to how we added sort item to the toolbar menu, we can add search item with few adjustments:

- To always show the search icon, we will use the `showAsAction="always"` attribute and specify icon via `icon` attribute.
- The logic to expand the search icon to the search field is already available in the *Android* framework. We can use it by setting `actionViewClass` attribute value to the `android.widget.SearchView`.

This lesson will teach you how to add a search functionality to the toolbar and filter items in the blog list screen.

Android Ecosystem

Hello World

Travel Blog - Login Screen

Travel Blog - Details Screen

Travel Blog - List Screen

Travel Blog - Search & Sort

Travel Blog - Offline

Conclusion

Search

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Search

Final result preview #

Toolbar menu #