How To Launch Your App In Just 16 hrs - Android Development (Udemy.com)
Learn Both Design with Photoshop and Code with Android Studio to publish your first app on the Playstore in just 16 HRS!
Created by: Vivek Ramesh
Last updated March 2016
What you will learn
- Understand how to use Photoshop for app UI design
- Create simple, yet effective logos for app projects.
- Understand the basics of coding in Java and using Android Studio
- Design and develop a full, production-ready app from scratch.
How it compares
Against the other 166 rated Udemy courses in Android Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 29% of them
- Reviews525#66 of 167 by number of reviews
- Length16.5 hourslonger than 66% of them
- Last updatedMarch 2016earlier than 95% of them
Course Description
We build an app called BucketDrops in the series which lets you keep track of life goals. The course begins with app design instructed by Gary and covers the following:
- Photoshop basics
- Illustrator basics
- Principles of Logo Design
- Process to design the app mockup screens
- Basic components of Android (Activities, Services, Intents, Fragments, and BroadcastReceivers
- Drawables and selectors
- Efficient Image Loading With Glide
- Fragments, FragmentManager and FragmentTransaction
- Realm database and queries
- RecyclerView, sections, animation and swipe to delete
- Styles and themes
- Custom Widgets and Views
- Running periodic tasks with IntentService, AlarmManager and BootReceiver
- Reverse engineering an APK file
- Proguard
- Publishing on Google Play
Prerequisites
- You have Photoshop and Illustrator installed on your system.
- You know a bit of Object Oriented Programming (Any language will do but Java is preferable)
- Assets wherever appropriate
- Presentations, keynotes and slides wherever appropriate
- Document containing GitHub code links attached on lecture 39
- Videos are enabled for offline access
Gary Simon has been a professional designer for over 15 years and has dealt with over a thousand clients on a variety of design and development projects. He owns a popular design business, along with its associated youtube presence which is one of the most popular design channels with almost 100,000 subscribers.
Vivz has been a java developer for nearly a decade and is the founder of a channel called slidenerd that deals with mobile programming on YouTube with almost 100,000 subscribers
Between the two, millions upon millions of aspiring designers and coders alike have benefited from their instructions.
Who should take this course?
Anyone that's interested in designing and developing apps for android. You can be an absolute beginner and follow along. You can also be an intermediate/advanced designer or coder and still gain valuable insights.
So if you're ready to start designing and coding amazing android apps, let's get started!Who this course is for:
- Anyone who has an interest in designing and coding apps.
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
525 Reviews
Vivek Ramesh
Once upon a time, my teacher asked me to write a program to check if the input is leap year. I went to my teacher and asked him "Sir, can you please explain why you wrote if(i%4==0)?". He told me to get lost saying "I ll never learn programming"
Are you like me whose teacher writes code and never explains why? You have finally come to the right instructor on Udemy who teaches you now just how to code but also why.
I have taught 100000+ people so far on my channel slidenerd which is rated as one of the topmost sources in the world to learn Android or IOS and other aspects of mobile development and general programming by several online blogs and forums. I have made several hundred videos on YouTube over the years and many of them are at the top of the search results on YouTube and Google.
I have real world teaching experience and a degree in IT Engineering. with more than 10 years of coding experience. I have won several coding challenges in the meantime. What do you say? we learn the how, what, why behind everything together? Gary Simon is a professional freelance graphics and web designer with well over a decade of experience. Having served over a thousand clients, Gary understands many facets of the design industry.
He has also been a course instructor for several of the top online education
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Reviews
The course is awesome for beginners with basic java knowledge. I would recommend it to my friends.
By the title of the course, I thought it would be a really practical content. However, after hours and hours of classes, I'm right now at the 40 video and its the first time that the instructor starts to teach about programming the BucketDrop App. In my opinion, this should be the very first video after designing the app. The videos before this one that i talked about feel so unpractical and useless, because I don't even know which part of the content I will be using at the app development. This way, when I really need the content that has already been teached, I'll have to go back and rewatch some classes to understand finally understand how things works, once that now I would know what they are used for.
Nevertheless, it is a good course. I only feel that the classes are poorly structured and the instructor is not good with teaching, even thought he is a good programmer.
Another problem that I ran through is that I'm not a native english speaker and the instructor's accent is really difficult to understand.
Learned bunch of new stuff, that the other courses simply does not teach you. Recommended!
waiting more android courses from you! something big application development! well done!
Probably the best Android course on Udemy :) 16h of great content from design to upload to the store!
The course is really awesome, if you don't have the experience with the android. I really learned alot from this videos, so i can definitely recommend it. I don't know how much i learned but i can say that is a lot. I'll probably still have to Google alot, but this course gives you a preview of Android.
Quality Score
Overall Score : 84 / 100







