Today’s the day! My first Pluralsight course Building Android Apps with Kotlin: Getting Started has finally released!
Take a look at the course here: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/building-android-apps-kotlin-getting-started/
And read below for more information.
What’s in it for me?
In this course, we take an introductory look at Android application development with the newest language set out to replace Java – Kotlin. This is a beginner’s course to both Android and Kotlin, so no experience in either is required. If you have some Android knowledge, come take a look at how it looks in Kotlin, and if you have some Kotlin experience, take a look at how it is applied to Android development.
In the end you’ll leave the course with a fully built real-world application that you can always look back to and reference in your own Android apps going forward!
Touch on topics such as:
- Android fundamentals
- Activities and their lifecycle
- Fragments and their lifecycle
- Creating models in Kotlin to represent remote data
- Accessing data over HTTP
- Storing data locally on the device with Sqlite and Anko
- Making asynchronous data calls to ensure the UI remains smooth
- Material design
- Other helpful tools and libraries
- Comparing Java to Kotlin
- So much more…
I’m planning a paired blog series to tag along with the course that will focus on some other basic Android+Kotlin concepts and draw comparisons to how they were done in Java and how they should be done in Kotlin, so keep an eye out for that as well!
Feedback
Again, this is my first course completed with Pluralsight, so I’m always looking for feedback or questions you might have about the course. You can either, comment in the “Discussion” section of the course, comment on this post, or reach me on Twitter @Suave_Pirate. What did you like? What could have been done better? What are you stuck on?
Thank You!
A special thank you to my Editor, Alex Walton, and my Author Success Manager, Beth Gerard-Hess for their help through the process as well as the rest of the Pluralsight team for being so great while I produced my first course.
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