Building Android Apps with Kotlin: Getting Started
By Alex Dunn
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Description
Building Android apps has traditionally been bogged down by the limitations of Java. In this course, Building Android Apps with Kotlin: Getting Started, you will learn foundational knowledge of both Kotlin as a language and using it to build Android apps while building a real world app along the way. First, you will learn some of the basics that go into building Android apps while using Kotlin. Next, you will discover ways to access remote data over HTTP. Finally, you will explore how to store data locally on the device. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Android and Kotlin together needed to build better apps with cleaner code.
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Course Overview
Hi everyone! My name's Alex Dunn, and welcome to my course on Building Android Apps with Kotlin: Getting Started. I'm an application architect and instructor that's shipped dozens of production mobile apps. I've received MVP awards from Xamarin and Microsoft for my involvement in the mobile app development community and can be found speaking at mobile development events all around Boston. The popularity of Android development is growing quickly, and since Google announced Kotlin's official support within the Android platform, development just got even easier. Kotlin's strengths alongside Android's flexibility give us an environment with fewer hassles and even more fun. This course is going to provide you with a foundation of both Android and Kotlin skills to bring to your own applications, as well as a real-world example app to reference. Some of the major topics we'll cover include the foundation of Android applications, using remote data over HTTP, storing data locally on the device, useful libraries and tools, and, of course, Kotlin as the language to write it all in. By the end of this course, you'll know how to build your own native Android apps from scratch using Kotlin instead of Java. But before beginning the course, you should be familiar with some basic object-oriented concepts with other languages like Java or C# or Ruby or really any others. But no prior knowledge of Android or Kotlin is required. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn about both Android and Kotlin with the Building Android Apps with Kotlin: Getting Started course at Pluralsight.