Final free sources and programs that I discover helpful whereas studying Android improvement as a newbie
This text was initially revealed at vtsen.hashnode.dev on July 9, 2022.
After 9 years of not touching Android improvement, I lately began to select 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 nice now in comparison with the previous, is there are plenty of free sources as we speak. These free sources assist me to select up quick. I will 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 vitally straight ahead aside from these movies (which is optionally available anyway). That is the perfect course that provide you with a really fast overview of what Android improvement is all about.
Since I used to be new to Kotlin, I believe that is the perfect and quickest approach to be taught Kotlin. It’s good as a result of it offers you examples, permitting you to visualise it as a substitute of studying the boring and prolonged documentation.
The next weblog publish summarizes the brand new idea in Kotlin the place you may’t discover in different languages (e.g C++ and C#).
I nonetheless felt lacking on the time. I needed to be taught extra, discovered one thing extra advance. So enrolled on this Android Kotlin Developer Nanodegreee. It’s an costly course in my view.
Nonetheless, I like to recommend you do NOT pay for it as a result of all of the programs can be found totally free. Briefly, 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 Android Kotlin Developer Nanodegree course is it does not cowl Jetpack Compose. Fortunately, this official Jetpack Compose Pathways course is kind of full in my view.
To be sincere, some ideas should not simple to grasp. The essential one are recomposition and unwanted effects. Thus, I all the time refer again to this official Jetpack Compose documentation.
I learn the documentations many instances, 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 period.
I observe Phillip Lackner very carefully, however I am unable to catch up his tempo. He posts video quicker than my studying pace!
I counsel you undergo all his previous movies and take a look at what are expertise that you just need to be taught and take note of it. I significantly like when he shares finest apply implementations, which you’ll be able to’t discover them from the documentation.
That is my weblog, so I am self-promoting. I weblog after I be taught one thing new or what I believe price to share. My aim is to publish one article per week and to date, I am nonetheless in a position to do it. Hopefully I can proceed to do this…
Good factor is, a lot of the articles listed below are very beginner-friendly. Not so good factor is, the articles are most likely not very well-structured. For instance, what I weblog this week most likely will not be associated to what weblog final week.
Conclusion
I hope you discover my little sharing right here helpful. It’s helpful for me not less than. I do know there are different good sources on the market which I do not cowl. Be at liberty to share with me.
To be sincere, I am nonetheless studying, and I nonetheless really feel battle typically. 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 abilities. Perhaps you are able to do the identical.
All the perfect to you!
