Faculty of Android development - course 95,000 rub. from GeekBrains, training 12 months, Date: June 10, 2023.

You will learn to write applications in Java and Kotlin, work with graphics and animation, and conduct testing. You'll also learn team development and prepare for interviews for Android developer positions.

Basics of Android Development in Java
In the first quarter, you will be immersed in the Java programming language to the level necessary to quickly get started in Android development. Learn about object-oriented programming, exceptions, collections, and networking. Learn the mechanisms of working with the Android system, understand the life cycle of an application, and gain skills in application layout. Find out how you can display information on the device screen. Get acquainted with the main features of Android applications.

Video course “How to study effectively”
We'll tell you how to plan your training in order to maintain interest, get maximum benefit and get everything done. You will learn how much time to devote to studying, how to effectively complete practical tasks, track progress and achieve goals.
• Features of studying at Geek University
• Why is it hard to study?
• Tools for self-education
• Learning from competencies
• Features of adult learning
• Setting SMART goals
• How to formulate an educational request

Java Core for Android

• Introduction to Java
• Basic structures
• Practice: analysis of examples of how to use basic Java elements
• Procedural style Tic Tac Toe
• Introduction to OOP - object-oriented programming
• Advanced OOP
• Practice OOP and working with strings
• OOP Java
• Exceptions
• Collections
• Generalizations
• Multithreading in Java, part 1. Shared memory, thread control, synchronization. Interaction of execution threads, mutual blocking.
• Multithreading in Java, part 2. Classes for working with multithreading. Concurrent collections. Analysis of examples.
• Overview of development tools

Android 1. Getting to know the platform

• Getting to know Android
• Application Layouts
• Activities. Life cycle
• Resources
• Intents, activities
• Fragments
• Navigation through fragments. Main menu. Side navigation menu
• Lists. List elements
• Advanced list features. Context menu. DatePicker
• Firestore and Google authentication
• Dialog boxes

Project
Creating a Note-Taking App

Deep dive into Android using Kotlin
In the second quarter, you will gain advanced Android application development skills. Learn to work with the basic components of an application, create interfaces with elements of varying complexity, and apply the basics of material design. Master access to the Internet and sending requests to a remote server. Learn about push notifications, multi-threading, fetching data through APIs and saving it to a database using Room. Learn to use GPS navigation and Google maps.

Android on Kotlin

• Introduction to Kotlin
• Application architecture
• Data types, collections, null safety, generics and interfaces
• Higher order functions, lambdas and extension functions
• Internet access
• Multithreading and Android components
• Receive data and download images
• Data storage in the application
• Permissions and Content Provider
• Geolocation and maps
• Push notifications
• Build types and principles of a healthy developer

Android. Material design

• Project template and component overview
• Application themes
• Navigation
• Layouts
• Animations
•RecyclerView
• Work with text
• Loading screen and UX design

Professional application development
In the third quarter, we talk about professional approaches in commercial Android development. You will learn dependency injection, multithreading based on functional programming. Explore the most popular libraries in Android development: RxJava, Dagger 2, Moxy, Cicerone and others. At the end of the quarter, you will master professional approaches to Android development, architecture applications, use the Koin dependency injection library, master multithreading using Coroutines. Gain an understanding of the multi-modularity of the project and learn how to use the dark theme in the application.

Popular libraries: RxJava 2, Dagger 2, Moxy

• Application architecture. MVP
• MVP: implementation via Moxy, Cicerone
• Reactive Programming, RxJava 2: Introduction
• RxJava 2: Operators
• Interaction with the server
• ORM and data storage
• Dependency Injection. Introduction to Dagger 2
• Dagger 2: sequel
• Two consultations, which will include analysis of the code in your projects and answers to questions

Professional Android Application Development

• Application architecture
• MVVM architecture
• Koin and coroutines
• Picasso/Glide, Room
• Kotlin DSL and Multimodularity
• App bundle + Dynamic feature and In-app update, Developer Console
• Scopes, Delegates, refactoring
•Android 10

Project
Creation of a translator from English to Russian

Team development and testing of applications, preparation for interviews