Gradle for Android and Java

Upcoming Android courses on Udacity

Advanced Android App Development -- We'll introduce you to a host of tools and concepts, including: material design approaches, image-handling, performance profiling, and more!

Android Design for Developers -- By the end of the course, you'll understand how to create and use material design elements, surfaces, transitions and graphics in your app, across multiple form factors.

Android Ubiquitous Computing -- The material in this course will give you the conceptual knowledge and expertise to extend your app with Android Wear, Google Cast, Android TV, and Android Auto.

Google Play Services -- Google offers APIs that allow you to access many of its popular services, including Location, Maps, Analytics, Advertising, Identity, and more. In this course, you’ll learn how to access these services, and build better apps!

Gradle for Android and Java -- This course reveals the magic that happens after you hit the "Run" button in Android Studio. You'll learn how the Gradle build tool compiles and packages your app, and you'll customize the build process. You'll learn to configure free vs paid app flavors, create and integrate Android libraries, test your app, and prepare your app for the Play Store.

Coursera, Udacity, Udemy Android Courses, which to take?

I'm a fairly experienced developer, working mostly with SQL, Python, and R, but let's just call my Java knowledge zero. I want to get into developing some Android apps on the side for fun and to expand my skillset. However there seems to be a neverending supply of courses, books, videos, etc... to learn Android and I don't know which one to start with. Three below that caught my eye I'm considering starting with:

• Coursera - Mobile Cloud Computing with Android Specialization: This sequence of courses examines mobile cloud computing on the Android platform, starting with user-facing applications, through the middleware and services running on Android devices, all the way to integration with network-accessible cloud services. -- Would not get the certificate, but just take the courses

• Udemy - Learn Android Lollipop Development. Create Java Android Apps: You will obtain the skills to build progressively more complex Apps using Android Lollipop: you will start off by building basic apps, and progress to more complex apps showcasing the more advanced features of Android. The apps you create include a calculate, youtube video player, Flick Image search and display app, database drive Friends app, a note keep application that uses Google drive and Dropbox, a game, and more. -- I already bought this one for $10 once, it looks pretty well done and is constantly updating.

• Udacity - Android Development for Beginners, Developing Android Apps, Advanced Android App Development, Android Design for Developers, Android Ubiquitous Computing, Google Play Services, Gradle for Android and Java, Android Performance, UX Design for Mobile Developers: Google's official courses for teaching Android development

I rather enjoy a course style learning, I have taken several Coursera courses before and loved them. Particularly I enjoy a text with supplementary videos, not videos with supplementary text as many courses are.

Anyways, does anyone have much experience with these (I realize most of the edX one's are new)? Any recommendations? I doubt I need to take all three sets of courses but ideally there's a more or less "best" one.

Thanks!

This might help https://www.udacity.com/course/gradle-for-android-and-java--ud867 you can skip android part.

Udacity free courses is pretty good..

Gradle for Android and Java: https://www.udacity.com/course/gradle-for-android-and-java--ud867

Version Control with Git: https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud123

This is the track I took as it's what Google recommends:

Do this

https://www.udacity.com/course/new-android-fundamentals--ud851

this

https://www.udacity.com/course/advanced-android-app-development--ud855

this

https://www.udacity.com/course/gradle-for-android-and-java--ud867

and then this

https://www.udacity.com/course/material-design-for-android-developers--ud862

and then you will have an idea of what to do and how to do it with Android

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All of the above are a little out of date, however that does not matter. I've heard they are all going to be refreshed in Kotlin soon. They are all free!

Either way, until you are familiar with the above you are going to have a pretty tough time with Android, however completing the above will make life a LOT easier.

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Good luck.