After 9 years of not touching Android improvement, I just lately began to choose up this once more 9 months in the past. I hope it’s nonetheless not too late for me to begin studying yet again.
What is sweet now in comparison with the previous, is there are quite a lot of free sources as we speak. These free sources assist me to choose up quick. I’ll share with you what sources are helpful for inexperienced persons.
This was the primary course I took. I like this course as a result of it is rather easy aside from these movies (that are optionally available anyway). That is the perfect course that provides you a really fast overview of what Android improvement is all about.
Since I used to be new to Kotlin, I feel that is the perfect and quickest strategy to be taught Kotlin. It’s good as a result of it provides you examples, permitting you to visualise it as a substitute of studying the boring and prolonged documentation.
The next weblog put up summarizes the brand new idea in Kotlin that you could’t discover in different languages (e.g C++ and C#).
I nonetheless felt lacking on the time. I wished to be taught extra, discovered one thing extra advance. So enrolled on this Android Kotlin Developer Nanodegreee. It’s an costly course for my part.
Nonetheless, I like to recommend you do NOT pay for it as a result of all of the programs can be found without spending a dime. In brief, the next 2 hyperlinks ought to cowl all of the paid programs:
The next article summarizes what I discovered from this course (it’s fairly detailed):
The difficulty with the Android Kotlin Developer Nanodegree course is it would not cowl Jetpack Compose. Fortunately, this official Jetpack Compose Pathways course is sort of full for my part.
To be trustworthy, some ideas will not be simple to grasp. The essential ones are recomposition and uncomfortable side effects. Thus, I all the time refer again to this official Jetpack Compose documentation.
I learn the documentation many occasions. I nonetheless learn it as we speak, and I encourage you to take action. You’ll be taught new issues each time you learn, particularly when your expertise degree improves over a time frame.
I comply with Phillip Lackner very carefully, however I am unable to meet up with his tempo. He posts movies quicker than my studying velocity!
I counsel you undergo all his previous movies and take a look at what expertise you need to be taught and take note of them. I notably like when he shares greatest follow implementations, which you’ll be able to’t discover from the documentation.
That is my weblog, so I am self-promoting. I weblog after I be taught one thing new or what I feel is value sharing. My purpose is to publish one article per week and to date, I am nonetheless in a position to do it. Hopefully, I can proceed to try this…
Good factor is, a lot of the articles listed below are very beginner-friendly. Not so good factor is, the articles are in all probability not very well-structured. For instance, what I weblog this week in all probability might not be associated to what weblog final week.
[Updated – Jan 06, 2023]: Added ChatGPT beneath as a result of it’s a fairly necessary useful resource to me now.
Google was once my first go-to, however not anymore for the reason that induction of ChatGPT by OpenAI. Attempt to ask ChatGPT any Android improvement query, it provides a reasonably good technical reply. The reply is exact and saves your time from searching round utilizing Google search.
However do consider, the information is often 1 yr previous. If the query you ask is said to probably the most up-to-date data, it will not in a position to provide the proper reply.
Nicely, it’s free and you’ll want to register and register. What I do not like is it’ll ask you to re-sign once more occasionally.
Conclusion
I hope you discover my little sharing right here helpful. It’s helpful for me a minimum of. I do know there are different good sources on the market that I do not cowl. Be happy to share with me.
To be trustworthy, I am nonetheless studying, and I nonetheless really feel battle generally. When you really feel the identical, you are not on their lonesome. I simply take child steps at a time, and hopefully I can slowly decide up the talents. Possibly you are able to do the identical.
All the perfect to you!
