Week 2 – Kotlin Android Development Course for Beginners // Activities, Lifecycles, Interactive UI

This is lecture 2 in a 9 week series on mobile app development with Android and Kotlin. In this Kotlin 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-2

— Lecture Outline —
0:36 – Outline
1:57 – Android Framework Components
14:07 – What is generated when you create a new Android Studio project?
40:26 – Working with Android Activities
41:20 – Android Activity lifecycle
50:12 – Using the Android Studio debugger // How to set a breakpoint in Android Studio?
59:38 – Creating Interactive User Interfaces
1:01:46 – What is FrameLayout?
1:05:09 – What is LinearLayout?
1:08:34 – What is RelativeLayout?
1:14:22 – What is ConstraintLayout?
1:28:09 – Responding To User Interaction
1:29:00 – ConstraintLayout simple tutorial
1:29:37 – How to create a new Vector Asset in Android Studio?
1:38:46 – How to respond to a Button click in Android
1:40:04 – Android Button setOnClickHandler
1:45:40 – Receiving user input using an EditText
1:54:00 – Customize Material Design theme in Android Studio

🤔 This week’s lecture covers the following questions:
– What are the Android app components?
– What is an Android Activity?
– What is generated when we create a new Android Studio project?
– What is the Android Activity lifecycle?
– What is the difference between an Android ViewGroup and a View?
– What is a FrameLayout? LinearLayout? Relative Layout? ConstraintLayout?
– How to build a simple UI using ConstraintLayout?
– How do define an Android click listener?
– How to show a Toast message in an Android Activity?
– How to enable Android developer options?
– How to use an EditText to receive user input?

Additional Resources

Android view vs Project view
https://youtu.be/OrDnAfswLdE

Kotlin Fundamentals Tutorials
https://youtu.be/6kKXkaSIPJg
https://youtu.be/YgEbPdoY3Xg

Get Started With Android Developer Options
https://youtu.be/ASr5alVfCZ0

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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