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Android Development Essential Training: App Architecture with Kotlin

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Overview

Learn Kotlin, lifecycles, navigation management, and other Android architecture recommendations to build high-quality Android applications.

Syllabus

Introduction

Build robust apps with Android app architecture
What you should know
Review the starting app

1. Handle and Manage Lifecycle Events

Explore the activity lifecycle
Trace lifecycle events with Logcat
Handle events with LifecycleObserver

2. Manage View Objects at Runtime

Work with synthetic view bindings
Get view references with findViewById()
Handle view events with lambdas
Create companion object functions
Update display from new data
Restore state after orientation change
Add a ViewModel to an activity
Subscribe to changes in LiveData values

3. Manage Navigation

Add a new launcher activity
Start activities with explicit intents
Display a Share button on the toolbar
Share data with implicit intents
Finish an activity with an up button

4. Work with Navigation Menus

Define an options menu with XML
Add a navigation drawer to a layout
Add icon graphics to menu items
Add a header to a navigation drawer
Handle navigation drawer menu events
Add a navigation toggle button

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

David Gassner

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