Android Developer

Nanodegree key: nd801

Version: 10.0.0

Locale: en-us

For intermediate programmers pursuing Android mastery, this program teaches the tools, principles, and patterns that underlie all Android development.

Content

Part 01 : Welcome to Your Nanodegree

Welcome to your Android Developer Nanodegree! Here's an overview of the program, along with some helpful resources to get you started.

Module 01: Welcome to Your Nanodegree
- Lesson 01: Welcome to Your Nanodegree
  Welcome to your Android Developer Nanodegree! Here's an overview of the program, along with some helpful resources to get you started.
Module 02: Career Support
- Lesson 01: Get Help with Your Account
  What to do if you have questions about your account or general questions about the program.
  - Concept 01: FAQ
  - Concept 02: Support
- Lesson 02: Knowledge, Community, and Careers
  You are starting a challenging but rewarding journey! Take 5 minutes to read how to get help with projects and content.

Part 02 : Developing Android Apps: Part 1

Create and run your first simple Android app, learn how to use Android Studio, connect your app to the internet, and complete your first Nanodegree project.

Module 01: Developing Android Apps: Part 1
- Lesson 01: Create Project Sunshine
  In the first lesson of Developing Android Apps, you'll learn how to create and run your first simple Android app. In doing so, you'll explore how to create simple layouts for Android, how Android runs on the phone and the IDE Android Studio.
- Lesson 02: Connect to the Internet
  In this lesson you'll harness the power of the Internet by connecting Sunshine to the cloud! You'll learn how to make requests to an API and visualize what's returned in your Android app, with an emphasis on performance. You'll also explore modifying the Action Bar of your app to add menu items.
Module 02: Project: Sandwich Club
- Lesson 01: Project: Sandwich Club
  In this project, you will complete an app by building a layout and populating its fields from data received as JSON.
  
  Project Description - Sandwich Club
  
  Project Rubric - Sandwich Club

Part 03 : Developing Android Apps: Part 2

Learn how to make multi-screen apps and display large lists of data. Build an app to help users discover popular and recent movies.

Module 01: Developing Android Apps: Part 2
- Lesson 01: RecyclerView
  Many apps need the ability to display large lists of data. You'll learn how to do this efficiently with Adapters and the RecyclerView class. By the end of this lesson, you'll be efficiently showing off many days worth of weather data.
- Lesson 02: Intents
  This lesson is all about making multi-screen apps using Intents. You'll learn how to use explicit intents to open up different app screens. You'll also learn about implicit intents, which are a powerful part of the Android framework that allows you to send and receive data from other apps, such as Google maps, Chrome and a host of social media apps.
Module 02: Project: Popular Movies, S1
- Lesson 01: Project: Popular Movies, Stage 1
  Build an app to help users discover popular and recent movies. You will build a clean UI, sync to a server, and present information to the user.
  
  Project Description - Popular Movies: Stage 1
  
  Project Rubric - Popular Movies: Stage 1

Part 04 : Developing Android Apps: Part 3

Module 01: Developing Android Apps, Part 3
- Lesson 01: Lifecycle
  One of the critical parts of Android any good developer needs to understand is the Android Lifecycle. In this lesson you'll learn about how activities are created and destroyed. You'll also learn how to properly persist data between rotations of the device.
- Lesson 02: Preferences
  In this lesson, you'll learn how to give users a customized experience by creating Preference screens. You'll practice first adding preferences first in a sample music visualizer app. After that, you'll finish the lesson by adding tempurate and location settings to Sunshine.
- Lesson 03: Content Providers
  Content Providers are a core Android Framework component that help you provide and manage access to your app's data. In this lesson, you'll learn how to leverage a content provider to get data from other apps on the phone by making a Flashcard app.
- Lesson 04: Android Architecture Components
  In this lesson, learn how Android Architecture Components can solve common challenges to build robust and efficient apps.
- Lesson 05: Background Tasks
  In this lesson you'll learn about how to effectively run jobs in the background, create notifications and periodically schedule long running background processes. To explore these topics you'll create a Hydration Reminder app that tells the user to drink water via a notification, even when the app is not running..
- Lesson 06: Completing the UI
  This lesson is all about building a user interface that is well-organized and accessible. You’ll be building a boarding pass app where you’ll learn about different styles of layouts, views and view groups, as well as data binding, and accessibility. At the end of the lesson, you’ll use what you’ve learned to improve the layouts used in Sunshine.
- Lesson 07: Polishing the UI
  In this final lesson, you’ll learn how to add visual polish to your apps. You’ll be adding details like colors, fonts, and styles to layouts within an app. You’ll also use principles of design to create apps that look great across different sizes of Android devices. By the end of this lesson, you’ll have added some style and color to Sunshine, and completed this course!
Module 02: Project: Popular Movies, Stage 2
- Lesson 01: Project: Popular Movies, Stage 2
  In this project, you will add to the app you built in Stage 1 by building on the detail view for each movie, allowing users to 'favorite' movies, and adding a tablet layout.
  
  Project Description - Popular Movies: Stage 2
  
  Project Rubric - Popular Movies: Stage 2

Part 05 : Advanced Android App Development

Extend what you learned in Developing Android Apps to make your apps more responsive, and create a total user experience with home screen widgets, third-party libraries, and more. You'll also learn to deeply integrate rich media, test user interfaces, and publish to Google Play.

Module 01: Advanced Android
- Lesson 01: Welcome to Advanced Android
  A quick guide to the course outline, and steps to download any of the code samples to follow along with the lessons.
  - Concept 01: Welcome to the Course!
  - Concept 02: Guide to the Course Code
- Lesson 02: Fragments
  In this lesson, you'll learn all about fragments, an essential building block to create apps with a flexible UI. You'll be getting hands-on experience with creating fragments by building an app called AndroidMe. AndroidMe lets a user customize the hair and clothing of an Android figure. After completing the app, you'll know how to build a beautiful and responsive UI for any app using fragments and the power of modularity and reusability!
- Lesson 03: Libraries
  In this lesson, you'll learn about including external libraries in your application. Libraries will allow you to unlock powerful features with just a few lines of code, as you'll see when you build an app that converts a facial expression in a picture into the closest matching Emoji using the Google Mobile Vision library. By the end of the lesson, you'll know how to find a select a library that suits your needs, as well as the names of a few "must have" Android Libraries.
- Lesson 04: Firebase Cloud Messaging
  In this lesson, you'll learn how to make a Twitter-like app known as Squawker. You'll learn how to make an app that receives messages from a server in real-time using a service known as Firebase Cloud Messaging. With these skills, you'll be well on your way to making battery efficient apps that can receive updates from the server in milliseconds!
- Lesson 05: Places
  In this lesson, you'll learn how Android locates its device in the globe using GPS and other techniques. You will get to use Geofences to trigger actions when the device enters or exits a location
- Lesson 06: Media Playback
  In this lesson, you'll learn about Media Playback by implementing the ExoPlayer library in a music quiz app. You'll also learn about background playback, external clients, media sessions and more!
- Lesson 07: Widgets
  In this lesson you will get to create an app widget that can be placed in the home screen. Widgets are shortcuts that can display updated information from the app and handle click events.
- Lesson 08: Espresso
  This lesson will teach you all about Espresso, Android's testing framework that simplifies writing UI tests. We will cover testing basic Views, AdapterViews, Intents, and IdlingResources.
- Lesson 09: Publishing Your App
  This lesson will walk you through all the steps to set up your app for success, publish your app, and continue to grow your audience post-launch in Google Play!
Module 02: Project: Baking App
- Lesson 01: Project: Baking App
  Create an app to view video recipes. You will handle media loading, verify your user interfaces with UI tests, integrate third party libraries and provide a complete UX with home screen widget.
  
  Project Description - Baking App
  
  Project Rubric - Baking App

Part 06 : Gradle for Android and Java

Learn how the Gradle build tool compiles and packages apps, how to customize the build process, and uncover the magic that happens after you hit the "Run" button in Android Studio. You'll also explore advanced Android topics, learning to configure free vs. paid app flavors, create and integrate Android libraries, test your app, and prepare your app for Google Play.

Module 01: Gradle for Android and Java
- Lesson 01: Gradle Fundamentals
  Learn the syntax and semantics of Gradle build scripts, and understand the lifecycle of a Gradle build.
- Lesson 02: Gradle for Java
  Understand the Gradle Java plugin, build and test Java projects, and manage dependencies.
- Lesson 03: Gradle for Android
  Discover the Gradle integration with Android Studio, and build an app with multiple product flavors.
- Lesson 04: Advanced Android Builds
  Create Android libraries, and use advanced features of the Android Gradle Plugin to configure signing, obfuscation, and testing.
- Lesson 05: Special Topics
  Learn how to update old projects and libraries and get more examples of custom tasks and multi-module projects.
Module 02: Project: Build it Bigger
- Lesson 01: Project: Build it Bigger
  Build and test a joke telling app with a free ad-supported version and a paid version. As a bonus, deploy a Google Cloud Messaging backend to supply the jokes.
  
  Project Description - Build It Bigger
  
  Project Rubric - Build It Bigger

Part 07 : Career Support

These Career Services will ensure you make meaningful connections with industry professionals to accelerate your career growth - whether looking for a job or opportunities to collaborate with your peers. Unlike your Nanodegree projects, you do not need to meet specifications on these Services to progress in your program. Submit these Career Services once, and get personalized feedback from Udacity Career Mentors.

Module 01: Career Services
- Lesson 01: Take 30 Min to Improve your LinkedIn
  Find your next job or connect with industry peers on LinkedIn. Ensure your profile attracts relevant leads that will grow your professional network.
  
  Project Description - Improve Your LinkedIn Profile
  
  Project Rubric - Improve Your LinkedIn Profile
- Lesson 02: Optimize Your GitHub Profile
  Other professionals are collaborating on GitHub and growing their network. Submit your profile to ensure your profile is on par with leaders in your field.
  
  Project Description - Optimize Your GitHub Profile
  
  Project Rubric - Optimize Your GitHub Profile

Part 08 : Material Design for Android Developers

Learn how to apply the material design principles that define Android's visual language to your apps. After a walk-through of Android design fundamentals, you'll see how to apply this knowledge to transform design elements of sample apps, giving you the background you need to create and use material design elements, surfaces, transitions and graphics in your app, across multiple form factors.

Module 01: Material Design
- Lesson 01: Android Design Fundamentals
  Understand and apply the fundamentals of Android design to your app, and experiment with app structures, common navigation patterns and themes.
- Lesson 02: Surfaces
  Understand how to use surfaces to structure the hierarchy and interaction of elements in an app.
- Lesson 03: Bold Graphic Design
  Understand and apply branding guidelines -- including key lines, metrics, fonts, typographic scale, color palette and themes/styles.
- Lesson 04: Meaningful Motion
  Understand the use of motion in apps, how to use transitions to change app states and properly choreograph the motion in an app.
- Lesson 05: Adaptive Design
  Understand how to refine and test your designs on for use on multiple form factors.
- Lesson 06: Constraint Layout
  Learn and apply the new features of ConstraintLayout that will help you create performant user interfaces
Module 02: Project: Make Your App Material
- Lesson 01: Project: Make Your App Material
  In this project, you will update the look and feel of an app to meet Material Design specifications.
  
  Project Description - Make Your App Material
  
  Project Rubric - Make Your App Material

Part 09 : Capstone Project

Take the skills that you've learned and apply them to an app idea of your own.

Module 01: Capstone, S1
- Lesson 01: Capstone Project: Stage 1
  Take the skills that you've learned and apply them to an app idea of your own. Design and plan your app, and receive feedback prior to building it in Stage 2.
  
  Project Description - Capstone, Stage 1 - Design
  
  Project Rubric - Capstone, Stage 1 - Design
Module 02: Capstone, S2
- Lesson 01: Capstone Project: Stage 2
  Take the skills that you've learned and apply them to designing your own app. You will execute on your vision and build your app in Stage 2.
  
  Project Description - Capstone, Stage 2: Build
  
  Project Rubric - Capstone, Stage 2: Build
Module 03: Final Steps
- Lesson 01: Final Steps
  Finish up and get ready to graduate!
  - Concept 01: Graduation

**Part 10 (Elective):** Firebase

Learn to leverage Firebase, a platform to help you support and extend your app. Use Firebase's suite of complementary products -- including analytics, a cloud database, authentication, messaging, and more -- to develop, grow and monetize your apps.

Module 01: Firebase in a Weekend
- Lesson 01: Saturday
  Start the weekend off right by implementing Firebase in FriendlyChat. FriendlyChat is a realtime messaging application.
- Lesson 02: Sunday
  During the Sunday lesson, you'll be getting into more advanced topics, like using Firebase Storage to allow users to upload picture messages from their phone, and sending notifications.
- Lesson 03: Monday
  Got extra time this weekend? Write your own Cloud Function for Firebase that makes chat more fun by adding emojis to FriendlyChat conversations.
Module 02: Firebase Analytics
- Lesson 01: Introduction to Digital Analytics
  In this lesson, we will take on the role of the developer for a live app: Flood-It! We will discuss the foundations of digital analytics using Flood-It! as a model.
- Lesson 02: Introduction to Firebase Analytics
  Learn about the Firebase Analytics Dashboard and how to view the data collected by your apps. Also, learn how to build audiences and funnels by leveraging events with Firebase Analytics.
- Lesson 03: Implementing In-App Analytics
  Learn how to use built-in events provided by Firebase Analytics and implement some of your own. Then, see how easy it is to tailor an app experience to segments of users with User Properties.
- Lesson 04: Analytics Integration
  In this lesson, you'll build upon what you've learned about Firebase Analytics and explore crash reporting, remote configuration, and dynamic links — a suite of powerful tools for improving your apps.