What you'll learn

Understand all the basic concepts of Android and Java as well as create a simple application.

Course content

3 sections • 34 lectures • 2h 44m total length

Intro1:23
Printing and Main2:57
Assigning Variables4:57
Primitive Data Types5:33
Strings2:58
Explore string handling in Android development by declaring string variables, using double quotes, including numbers, and concatenating strings to print a result such as hello world 2017.
Operators5:44
Learn how to use arithmetic operators such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and remainder, and apply equality and relational operators to compare values in Android development.
While Loops4:39
Learn to implement a while loop to repeat code until a condition is met, using a counter, incrementing it, and breaking out of the loop with break to stop early.
If4:10
Logical Operators5:14
Arrays6:51
Methods5:41
Classes7:56
Public and Private9:26

Setting Up0:45
Relative Layouts and Text Views6:37
Text Size, Margins and Padding4:14
Edit Text3:40
Button1:56
Listeners4:40
Apply listeners to views by retrieving a logon button with findViewById, casting it to a button, and using setOnClickListener with an onClick method to respond to user clicks.
Retrieve text from Edit Text4:24
Checking username and password8:09
Toasts3:31
Android for absolute beginners shows how to validate credentials and display login success or failure toasts. Use Toast.makeText with context, message, and duration, then show.
Creating a second Activity and Linear Layouts4:58
Intents2:24
Going back to previous activity3:51
Updating the screen10:30
Sending data to an Activity5:01

This course will give you the foundations in programming Android applications using Java. This course is split into three sections:

1. Setting up the environment and intro to languages / tools

2. Understanding Java

3. Android Project

From this course, you will be able to understand and programming in Java and you will be able to create basic Android applications.