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Vskills certification for Android Apps Development assesses the candidate for skills on developing applications for Android platform. The certification tests the candidates on various areas in android application development which includes knowledge of android framework, screen layout, UI design, events, intents and widgets.

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Course Videos – CH-1 Introduction 5 Topics

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Course Introduction

Author Introduction

What to Expect in This Course

How to Get the Most Out of This Course

My Promise to You

CH-2 Set Up Development Environment 5 Topics

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What You’ll Do in this Section – Android Studio Setup

Downloading Android Studio

[OPTIONAL] – Material Theme Android Studio Plugin

Creating an AVD – Android Virtual Device

Section Summary

CH-3 Understanding Android – the Android Platform 5 Topics

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What We’ll Cover in This Section – Understanding the Android Platform

Understanding Android – the Android Stack – Part 1

Understanding Android – the Android Stack – Part 2

Understanding ART and Dalvik Runtimes

Summary and Challenge

CH-4 Android Components/Building Blocks 9 Topics

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What We’ll Cover in This Section – Android Building Components

Android Building Components

Android Activity Functions

Overview of Activity and setContentView

Creating Views in Code

Understanding the Activity Lifecycle

[Hands-On] Activity Lifecycle

A Note on Activity Lifecycle

CH-5 [Hands-On] Activity and Instance State 7 Topics

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What We’ll Cover in This Section – Transient UI State

Application Setup

Saving and Restoring InstanceState Values

[Fix] – onRestoreInstanceState Super

Introduction to ViewModel Class

[Hands-On] – Creating a ViewModel

CH-6 Android Fragments – Building Robust and Flexible User Interfaces 15 Topics

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What We’ll Cover in This Section – Fragments: Deep Dive

Why Fragments – Motivation

Defining Fragments Statically

Defining Fragments Dynamically

Checking for Configuration Changes

Calling Fragment Methods from Activity

Fragment Lifecycle

Fragment Lifecycle Methods and Improving onViewCreated

Communicating Between Fragments and Activities – the Right Way

Communicating Between Fragments and Activities – Implementing Listeners

Cleaning Listener – onDetach

Replacing Fragments Dynamically

Fragment Transition and Animation

Managing Fragments Back Stack

CH-7 [Hands-On] – Fragments – Vision Board App 8 Topics

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What We’ll Cover in This Section – Introduction to Vision Board App

Vision Board App – User Interface – Part 1

Setting up RecyclerView – Part 2

Showing Boards on RecyclerView – Part 3

Setting up the Detail Fragment

Setting up the Interface Listener

Showing Details Fragment

CH-8 Android Content Providers 15 Topics

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What We’ll Cover in This Section

Content Providers Overview

Setting Up Android Room Database and Entity

Setting Up Android Room Database and Entity – Final

Setting Up DAO and ApplicationDatabase Singleton

Setting Up Provider – Part 1

Setting Up Provider – Part 2

Provider – Finalize CRUD Operations

Implementing Provider in Activity – AsyncTask – Part 1

Implementing Provider in Activity – AsyncTask – Part 2

Implementing Provider in Activity – AsyncTask – Part 3 – Show Dreams

Implementing Provider in Activity – AsyncTask – Part 3 – Delete Dreams

Implementing Provider in Activity – AsyncTask – Part 4 – Delete Dreams

Summary – Content Providers

CH-9 [Hands-On] – Improving Vision Board App – Android Room Database and ViewModel 9 Topics

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What We’ll Cover in This Section – Vision Board Room Database

Set Up Toolbar and Navigation – Vision Board App

Setting Up AddFragment User Interface

UI Setup Finished

Set Up AddFragment – Part 1

Setting Up BoardDao Interface

Setting Up the ViewModel Class

Saving and Showing Boards

Final Touches – Vision Board App

CH-10 Working in the Background in Android – Services [Part 1] 14 Topics

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What We’ll Cover in This Section

Understanding the UI Thread

Understanding AsyncTask

Limitations and When to Use AsyncTask

Understanding Services

[Hands-On] AsyncTask

Understanding the Working in the Background

Create and Run a Service

Creating an IntentService

Ways for Communicating Between Activities and Services

Android BroadcastReceivers – Part 1

Android BroadcastReceivers – Part 2 – Finished Project

Binding Services – Part 1

Binding Services – Part 2 – Invoking Services Methods

CH-11 Working in the Background in Android – JobScheduler [Part 2] 8 Topics

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Android JobScheduler Overview

Understanding the JobScheduler API

Create a JobService and JobScheduler

Running JobService on Worker Thread and Stopping JobServices

JobScheduler and Broadcast Receiver

[CHALLENGE – JSON] – Parse JSON Using JobScheduler

[SOLUTION] – Parse JSON Using JobScheduler – Part 1

[CHALLENGE – JSON] – Parse JSON Using JobScheduler – Final

CH-12 Working in the Background – WorkManager and Notification Manag [Part 3] 11 Topics

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Introduction to Modern Concurrent Android API – WorkManager

Setting Up a Worker

Applying Constraints to the WorkRequest

Getting Result from Background Worker onto UI

Passing Data from Activity to Worker

Cancelling Work

Setting Up PeriodicWorkRequest

Notification Manager API – Introduction

Showing Notifications with Workers

Adding onTap to Notification and Pending Intents

CH-13 [Hands-on] – Build Custom Card App Using WorkManager API 14 Topics

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What We’ll Build in This Section – Custom Card App

Setting Up Android Permissions

Getting Image from the Device

Showing Image Via CustomAndroidViewModel

Setting Up WorkContinuation Class

Setting Up CardWorkerUtils Class

Setting Up CleanUpWorker Class

Setting Up CardWorker Class

Setting Up the SaveCardToFileWorker

Set Up WriteBitmapToFile Class

Setting Up OverlayTextToBitmap Class

Setting Up OverlayTextToBitmap Class – Final

Setting Up CreateCardActivity

CH-14 [OPTIONAL] – Android Studio Update 1 Topic

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Android Studio Update

CH-15 [Hands-On] – Build a Home Screen Widget – Virus Tracker 9 Topics

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Home Screen Widgets – Introduction and App Demo

Setting Up the Virus Tracker Project

Working on the DownloadJsonWorker Class

Set Up WorkContinuation for the Workers

Set Up the MainActivity and ViewModel

Adding Refresh Menu Button – Finishing the App

Creating our Widget – Setup and Walkthrough

Set Up the WidgetAppProvider Class

Finishing the Home Screen Widget

CH-16 What’s Next? 1 Topic

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Introduction to Android 7 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Mobile Application Development

What is Android

History of Android Platform

Android Features

Android Architecture

Pre-requisites for Development

Environment Setup

Quiz – Introduction to Android

Elements in Android 5 Topics

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Components of IDE

Android Application Framework

Application Components

UI and Screen Layout Design Elements

The Android Platform 5 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Dalvik Virtual Machine

The Project Folder Structure

The AndroidManifest.xml File

Quiz – The Android Platform

Android Application 4 Topics | 1 Quiz

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The Application Life Cycle

Activity Life Cycle

Activity States

Application Resources

Quiz – Android Application

Android User Interface 5 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Common UI elements

Quiz – Android User Interface

Android Media 9 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Graphics Basics

Displaying images and animation

Canvas and Drawables

Hardware Acceleration

Supported Media Formats

Quiz – Android Media

Android Events 3 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Handling click and touch events

Keyboard events handling

Using context menus

Quiz – Android Events

Android Content Providers 2 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Content Providers Basics

Defining and working with content provider

Quiz – Android Content Providers

Android Intents and Intent Filters 4 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Intents and types

Intents and Activities

Intent Messaging and Resolution

Broadcast Receivers

Quiz – Android Intents and Intent Filters

Miscellaneous Android 7 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Google Search Integration

Location Based Services

Device Administration

Quiz – Miscellaneous Android