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Android Apps with Kotlin: Resources, Styles, and Themes

Learn the skills necessary to create engaging applications that leverage the Android resource system to provide rich styling and an effective user experience that automatically adapts to the wide-ranging needs of Android's diverse user base.

Intermediate
3h 34m
(24)

Created by Jim Wilson

Last Updated Apr 07, 2022

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Android Apps with Kotlin: Resources, Styles, and Themes

Learn the skills necessary to create engaging applications that leverage the Android resource system to provide rich styling and an effective user experience that automatically adapts to the wide-ranging needs of Android's diverse user base.

Intermediate
3h 34m
(24)

Created by Jim Wilson

Last Updated Apr 07, 2022

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Successful apps have a high bar to meet. They must be adaptable to a broad set of devices, be usable by a culturally diverse user base, and provide a rich and engaging visual appearance. In this course, Android Apps with Kotlin: Resources, Styles, and Themes, you'll learn everything you need to know to create apps that achieve this high standard. First, you’ll see how to use the Android resource system to provide app content that adapts to differing device characteristics. After that, you’ll incorporate images and other drawable resources into your app in a way that allows the system to automatically select the appropriate choice to best accommodate each device’s display density. Next, you’ll explore how to use value resources to specify strings and other values in a way that allows for easy language localization and configuration-based adjustment of display characteristics. Finally, you’ll delve into leverage styles and themes to customize the color, styling, and overall appearance of your app. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to create rich and engaging Android apps that are able to effectively adapt to a wide range of devices and users.

Android Apps with Kotlin: Resources, Styles, and Themes
Intermediate
3h 34m
(24)
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Jim Wilson
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Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Android, iOS, and Microsoft platforms. Jim has over 30 years of software engineering experience, with the past 15 years heavily focused on creating mobile device and location-based solutions.

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