Android Material Design Slidenerd Style

• Create any app in Android that uses material design
• Understand the visual and functional APIs involved in material design
• Learn which colors to use, how to use colors, styles for material design
• Work with navigation drawers, customize them as per other standard apps
• Create Floating Action Buttons with menus and use 3rd party libraries for doing the same
• Work with RecyclerViews as an alternative to ListViews, customize them, load dynamic data inside them, section them, animate their modifications, animate their visual perception when the user loads them
• Download and parse JSON
• Understand how to use Volley library for loading images and data inside your Lists
• Validate material design specifications suggested by your designer vs. what you actually build
• Understand and experiment with the Touch Event Framework in Android
• Build Ripple effects for lists and normal items on both Android Lollipop and pre-lollipop devices
• Build custom material tabs
• Using RottenTomatoes API effectively
• Making VectorDrawables and AnimatedVectorDrawables on both Android Lollipop and prelollipop devices
• Understanding how to use JobScheduler API as an alternative to IntentService + AlarmManager
• Use Swipe To Refresh pattern from Material Design
• Perform Activity Transitions, Content Transitions and Shared Element Transitions between your activities
• Perform several different types of animations with your views
• Initialize, Customize and Use the Toolbar as a replacement for the ActionBar

Material Design in Android is the new and future way of designing and developing apps. It involves new APIs that not only enhance the visual perception of your apps but also the functionality in terms of how you create them and how the user perceives them.

1. This course walks through the process of building a simple app that displays list of movies but dives into absolute detail while building the app.
2. The concepts learnt through this course can be applied to any other app you plan to design using material design terminology.
3. You will be able to make apps that use Navigation Drawer, Toolbar, Transitions, RecyclerView, Animations, Ripple Effects, Material Tabs, Vector Drawables, JSON Parsing, Volley library, JobScheduler API and several other fixes after completing this course.
4. Learn how to validate your design with your code with thirdy party APIs and libraries discussed in the course

1. You need to be familiar with Object Oriented Java and Basic Android programming concepts like Intents, Activities, Fragments, ListView
2. Have Android Studio IDE installed

1. Over 50 lectures in Material Design , worth over 20 hours of content
2. Become proficient in Material Design APIs
3. Learn to build apps that use RecyclerView instead of ListView
4. Learn to integrate database with background data processing
5. Understand libraries like Volley for background data processing

1. Anyone who wants to build apps with material design and has some basic knowledge in Java and Android