Android Development in Kotlin (KTL111)

This Kotlin training class teaches Android development using Kotlin.

1. Basic Kotlin
   1. Characteristics of Kotlin
   2. Variables and Type
   3. Control Statements
   4. Null Safety
2. Classes and Objects
   1. Construction and Initialization
   2. Inheritance, Interfaces and Delegation
   3. Nested Classes
   4. Companion Objects
3. Functions and Lambdas
   1. Parameters
   2. Function Types
   3. Lambdas
   4. Higher Order Functions
4. Generics and Collections
   1. Generics
   2. Lists
   3. Sets
   4. Maps
5. Concurrency in Kotlin
   1. Coroutines and Threads
   2. Dispatch
   3. Channels
   4. Shared Mutable State
6. Tools
   1. Android Studio
   2. Gradle
   3. Virtual devices and the Emulator
   4. Debugging
7. Anatomy of an Application
   1. The Application
   2. Activities
   3. Views
   4. Lifecycle
8. Building a UI
   1. Views
   2. Layout
   3. Graphical design
   4. XML Layout
9. Notifications
   1. Toasts
   2. Status Bar Notification
   3. Progress Dialog
   4. Other notifications
10. Complex Views
    1. Spinners
    2. View Pager
    3. Tabs
    4. View Flipper
11. Intents
    1. Intents
    2. Intent Filters
    3. Starting Activities
    4. Implicit and explicit targeting
12. Navigation
    1. Menus
    2. Action Bar
    3. The back button
    4. Gestures
13. Services
    1. Running in the background
    2. Starting a service
    3. Communicating with a service
    4. Bound Services
14. Content Providers
    1. URLS
    2. Creating a Content Provider
    3. Queries
    4. Inserts
15. Broadcast Receivers
    1. Events
    2. Registering
    3. Intents
    4. Sticky Events
16. Tasks
    1. Handlers
    2. Async Task
    3. Callbacks
    4. Updating the GUI
17. Data
    1. Shared Preferences
    2. Internal Storage
    3. SQL Lite
    4. Resource Files
18. Accessing RESTful Services
    1. HTTP
    2. Connections
    3. JSON
    4. Asynchronous requests/responses
19. The WebView
    1. The WebView
    2. Navigation
    3. Local content
    4. JavaScript
20. Fragments
    1. Screen sizes
    2. Responsive Layouts
    3. Alternate Resources
    4. Images
21. Production
    1. Preparing an app for production
    2. Testing
    3. The Play Store
    4. MDM

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Experience in the following is required for this Kotlin class: