Building a Chat App for Android from Scratch (Udemy.com)

The instructor is clearly very smart. However, a lot of careless mistakes were made while making this app that could greatly increase the effectiveness of the app along with it to be more pleasing to the eyes. Overall a good tutorial but only to be used to learn how to make a chat app not a basis for your next project. I feel the course jumped around a bit too much for my liking. While learning to user databases and using them in real world apps is a major thing to know how to do. I feel like it could have so much of a better delivery. I feel like I could have built the app a little better without having random components pop up and be created out of nowhere.

I'm having a hard time breaking through the accent. The enunciation of many words is incorrect and hard to decipher. The Socketer class was poorly explained. having an interface named Socket and using a java.net.Socket was very hard to follow. I shouldn't have to rely on outside resources to this course to resolve errors or to understand. I like the concept of the course and obviously there is a lot of disparate concepts to try and tie together. I question some choices of data structures but I'll wait to assess until the application is up and running and I can actually step through it. Once this course gets to the Messaging Service provided by Google it fall completely off the train tracks. Clearly this is very dated. I didn't realize how dated but it's really bad. This course needs to be retired and completely updated. Don't waste your time or money

The videos are short without good and solid explanation about the steps we are doing. There is missing lesson in the start about the architecture of the project that would make everything more clear but the really annoying thing is that if you are following step by step you still get compilation error that the instructor deal offline.

Did not regret at all to take the course of Qzaktr explain distinctive and simplified a very cool and professor Professor of very cool

This course was exactly what I was looking for. Many beginner Android books and courses just show some trivial Android app code (like Tip Calculator or Quiz or Bank loan Interest calculator) as examples. This course is perfect if you want to study coding and development of an Android app of medium complexity. As a bonus, you can re-use parts of the code in your own apps..for example the login module and the messaging modules . The instructor is very through and goes through each line of code and explains its functionality. Just one thing to keep in mind. This course is a fast paced course. It not meant for complete beginners. It will not teach you Java or Android development right from beginning. It assumes that you have some basic knowledge of the following: 1. Java programming 2. SQL and MySql 3. PHP 4. XML 5. Some knowledge of Android framework like Activity or Intent. You can always learn these basics from the internet and Android development websites. I highly recommend this course if you are looking to learn some cool Android app development projects.

I have benefited from this course, the lessons it is very simple and I understand it fast

Though the material is quite complex, you must draw from a very wide background, including but not limited to SQL, PHP, PHPMyAdmin, intermediate Android infrastructure knowledge, Java in general, Apache and MySQL in XAMPP. Given that, as of right now the code does work and is well worth the effort.

The titles gives you a good idea about the complain. This course is too unorganized... The instructor can't really explain thing clearly or using the wrong word choice (probably due to his English level). And most importantly, he never gives you the big picture, all he does is go ahead and program the app while narrating what he is doing... -_- Although the content is somewhat complete.. but it is very disappointing..

The tutorial is not worth the price. There are numerous mistakes, and in the video is not explained well what is being done, so it's difficult to understand where is the error of the teacher. The answers to the questions of help are ignored. I'm really disappointed by this horrible tutorial

This was a tough one to rate, I want to be fair to both the potential viewer and the instructor. It's a high paced video, I like that kind of thing personally, it might not suit everyone. The thing that I enjoyed the most was how proficient the instructor was with Android Eclipse. Most of the tutorials that I seen and read have you coding everything in XML, the instructor here was blazing through by using the IDE to set strings, and building his interface. That was the biggest take for me i'm sure others will find more benefit out of it than I did.