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Week 1 – Kotlin Android Development Course for Beginners // Introduction To App Development



Week 1 – Kotlin Android Development Course for Beginners // Introduction To App Development

This is lecture 1 in a 9 week series on mobile app development with Android and Kotlin. In this Android development course for beginners, you’ll learn the fundamentals of Android development with Kotlin while building a simple weather app using Android Studio.

This lecture was recorded in support of a course I’m teaching at North Seattle College.
Slides ➡️https://speakerdeck.com/n8ebel/nsc-ad-340-5210-week-1

— Lecture Outline —
0:01 – Week 0 Review
1:22 – Syllabus Review
2:40 – Class Announcements
6:14 – Why Learn App Development?
9:26 – Challenges of App Development
15:34 – Types of Mobile Development
22:36 – Why Android Development?
27:42 – Setting Up Our Android Development Environment
28:34 – Installing Android Studio
36:12 – Creating Your First Android Studio Project
39:17 – Creating An Android Emulator
41:52 – Installing Your First Android App
45:14 – Sharing An Android Studio Project to GitHub
50:06 – Building An Android APK

🤔 This week’s lecture covers the following questions:
– What are the unique benefits and challenges of Android app development?
– What are some different ways of building mobile apps?
– What makes Android the most popular mobile operating system?
– What is Android Studio?
– What is the Android Emulator?
– What is Kotlin?
– How do you create a new Android project?
– How do you share code from Android Studio to GitHub?
– How do you add a README to your GitHub repo?

🖥 Additional Android Studio Setup Resources

Install Android Studio 3.3 On Mac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSnxWv9T9I

Setup Your Android Development Environment For Windows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uy7vuV_qPA

Getting Started With Git
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znqwRDc6_2s&feature=youtu.be

Get Started With GitHub
https://youtu.be/YxTrIlY4TR4

This Android development course is aimed at beginner programmers who have some familiarity with Java and object oriented programming, but haven’t necessarily built mobile apps before.

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