Android Development Course - Build Native Apps with Kotlin Tutorial

Learn to build native Android apps with Kotlin. You will also learn how to use Android Jetpack, Firebase, Room, MVVM, Navigation, LiveData, and Kotlin Coroutines. This full course explains how to build an entire Android app using best practices. 💻 Code: https://github.com/BracketCove/SpaceNotes 🎥 Course developed by Ryan Kay. Check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSwuCetC3YlO1Y7bqVW5GHg 🔗 Absolute Beginner's Introduction to Android Development w/ Android Studio: https://skl.sh/2ZU6ZT9 🔗 Programming Fundamentals w/ Kotlin and Android: https://www.udemy.com/course/application-programming-fundamentals-with-kotlin/ ⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️ 1 (0:00) Introduction 2 (5:14) Model View ViewModel (MVVM) Architecture fundamentals and variations (5:38) Is MVVM the perfect architecture? (7:41) Overview of MVVM with whiteboard example (12:11) Pros and Cons of MVVM (18:58) Package structure 3 (23:22) How to create Vector Drawables (24:22) Difference between Raster (PNG, JPG, BMP) and Vector (SVG) Images? (27:55) Uh Oh! (28:41) How to use Inkscape to create an SVG from a BMP/PNG (30:07) How to convert an SVG into an Android Studio Vector Asset (32:29) How to create simple animations using animation lists and fade animations 4 (38:19) Material Design User Interface using ConstraintLayout and Styles (41:00) Building an XML Layout using ConstraintLayout (51:09) Using ConstraintLayout Chains (55:43) Some tips on using Styles to create a material design look 5 (56:51) How to use (and when not to use) the Android Navigation Component from Android Jetpack (1:00:00) Adding Safe Args to gradle (1:01:15) Building a Navigation Graph using the Navigation Editor (XML) (1:11:00) Creating a NavHostFragment to host the Navigation Component and adding it to an Activity (1:15:29) How to actually change destinations in our Fragments using the Navigation Component (with safe args) 6 (1:20:00) Setting up Fragments as Views in MVVM using Kotlin Synthetic Properties