Become an Android Mobile App Developer

Explore the world of Android app development. Learn the steps to creating your very first Android app in this overview course.

Want to develop Android apps? You need Android Studio—the only IDE fully supported by Google for Android app development. Learn how to install Android Studio 2.0, set up your development environment, and start coding.

Display information in your Android app by using toast messages, snackbars, dialogs, and notifications. Joe Marini shows you how you can ensure your app communicates effectively with the user. In this course, he demonstrates how to select the right method depending on if you want the user to acknowledge information, make a confirmation, or be notified of an event.

Learn how to use the data management and presentation tools of the Android SDK. David Gassner demonstrates how to use shared preferences, JSON-formatted text files, and SQLite to manage data. He shows you how to customize data display and handle common events.

Create layouts for different screen sizes with the Android Fragments API. Learn to add and remove fragments with Java and XML and use fragments to dynamically choose layouts at runtime, store shared preferences, and more.

Learn how to use different animation techniques to create visually compelling animations and screen transitions for Android mobile apps.

Create a complete note-taking app from scratch with Android Studio, and then watch companion courses in Windows and iOS to compare the app development workflows.

Take advantage of web services, integrations, and libraries to optimize how your Android app handles network connectivity, errors, data management, and more.

Make sure every part of your Android mobile app works perfectly. Test your application at the unit level using unit testing and the built-in tools in the Android SDK.

Once you've created an Android app, it's time to share it with the world. Learn how to package and distribute Android apps on Google Play and the Amazon Appstore.