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Building Your First Connected App with Android Studio 2018

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Overview

If you are building an app, it will need to successfully fetch data from the internet. In this course, you will learn how to build your first connected app.

There are many times when your Android app will need to fetch data from the internet, to provide users with fresh information. In this course, Building Your First Connected App with Android Studio, you'll learn how to make your Android app connect to a web service and retrieve JSON data from the web. First, you'll connect to the Google Books API to make searches and retrieve book titles, covers and detailed information about your favorite books. Next, you'll learn how to add networking and internet permissions, build URIs, use AsyncTask and NetworkUtils to connect to the web asynchronously. Then, you'll discover how to parse JSON content and correctly use a RecyclerView. Finally, you'll see the Google data binding library in action, and how to use Parcelable classes in order to obtain greater speed of execution. By the end of this course, you'll have a better understanding on how to build your first connected app with Android Studio.

Syllabus

  • Course Overview 1min
  • Getting Started 4mins
  • Connecting to a Web Service 38mins
  • Parsing JSON Content 33mins
  • Showing Images and Using Parcelable Classes 29mins
  • Saving Data with SharedPreferences and Recap 32mins

Taught by

Simone Alessandria

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