Mastering Intellij IDEA and Android Studio (Udemy.com)
Instantly Become More Productive, Learn To Get The Most Out Of IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio
Created by: Tim Buchalka's Learn Programming Academy
Last updated April 2025
What you will learn
- Learn keyboard shortcuts and menu option navigation that will make your coding quicker and more effective.
- Become more productive with IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio.
- Learn faster coding workflows.
- Mastery of IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio - The course covers nearly every aspect of both IDE's.
- Obtain knowledge of the tips, tricks, and techniques to make you a more efficient programmer
- Understand Android best practices and learn to work with views, fragments, and activities in Android Studio
- Learn to debug code in IntelliJ IDEA with Unit Tests, Breakpoints, Watches, and more!
- Master language specific options for working with Kotlin, HTML, XML, and JSON in IntelliJ IDEA
- Work with Android tools like the adb, logcat, AVD Manager, and SDK Manager
- Learn how to generate an apk file for your Android app that you can publish to the Google Play Store!
How it compares
Against the other 166 rated Udemy courses in Android Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating3.8 out of 5higher than 6% of them
- Reviews106#124 of 167 by number of reviews
- Length9.9 hourslonger than 50% of them
- Last updatedApril 2025more recently than 61% of them
Course Description
Have you used JetBrain's fantastic IntelliJ IDEA IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and been amazed at the power but wondered how to take advantage of the incredible range of functionality and speed enhancements?
Maybe you are an Android Studio developer and want to get the most out of the IDE which, in case you didn't know is IntelliJ IDEA under the hood (in other words, Android Studio IS IntelliJ IDEA, but with Android capability added by Google).
Others IDEA's such as Pycharm also use IntelliJ IDEA.
If you used any of these IDE's then I am sure you already know how great the product is. But what if you could learn all the shortcuts and features designed to really accelerate your productivity?
That's where this course comes in. It's designed to do just that - to teach you all the advanced features of the product.
While you can check the syllabus on this page for a full list of what the course includes, here is a summary of what you will learn from the course.
Speed up your coding workflow - Learn keyboard shortcuts and menu option navigation that will make your coding quicker and more effective.
Master the debugger and profiler - Understand how to debug and profile code using the profiler and debugger. Find and fix errors in your code quicker and easier.
Gain Android Development knowledge, techniques, and workflows. Understand how to use Android Studio to build and optimize your own Android Apps.
Editor customisation - Learn editor customization to change the ordering of menu items, look and feel of the editor, create your own custom UI elements, etc… This will give you the ability to MAXIMIZE the potential of these two powerful development tools.
IntelliJ IDEA's GUI Designer - Learn how to build custom GUI dialogs and windows within the editor. This course comes with two full examples of building custom GUI elements and an entire section teaching the process and the different Swing GUI components you can use to build and customize editor UI.
Work with Git and Github - Learn to directly interface with GitHub (or other version control systems) directly in the editor. No need for a command line or GUI source control program, you can commit, push, and pull code directly from within IntelliJ IDEA.
Master keyboard shortcuts and menu options - Gain a complete understanding to the tools at your disposal. An entire section of the course is dedicated to keyboard shortcuts and another section is dedicated to teaching all of the different main menu options in the 13 main menus found in IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio: File, Edit, View, Navigate, Code, Analyze, Refactor, Build, Run, Tools, VCS, Window and Help.
Master the terminal / command line - Become proficient using the terminal / command line. Learn about IntelliJ IDEA's built-in terminal, Git Terminal, and Android Studio command line tools ADB and Logcat.
Why you need this course.
If you want to become a more productive programmer and learn how to use the advanced features of IntelliJ and Android Studio then this course is perfect for you!
If you have no programming experience, or have never used Android Studio or IntelliJ IDEA before then it's suggested to invest first in a course that uses these tools - This channel has a Java Masterclass and Android Kotlin course that would help. Then come back here and go through this course - or do both concurrently.
Ready to get started?
If you are ready to get started, click on that enroll button and start becoming even more productive with IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio.
Instructor Details
- 3.8 Rating
106 Reviews
Tim Buchalka's Learn Programming Academy
The Learn Programming Academy was created by Tim Buchalka, a software developer with 40 years experience, who is also an instructor on Udemy, with over 2.28M+ students in his courses on Java, Python, Android, C# and the Spring framework.
The Academy’s goal in the next three years, is to teach five million people to learn how to program.
Apart from Tim’s own courses, which are all available here, we are working with the very best teachers, creating courses to teach the essential skills required by developers, at all levels.
One other important philosophy is that our courses are taught by real professionals; software developers with real and substantial experience in the industry, who are also great teachers. All our instructors are experienced, software developers!
Our team is busy creating new courses right now.
Whether you are a beginner, looking to learn how to program for the very first time, or to brush up on your existing skills, or to learn new languages and frameworks, the Academy has you covered.
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Reviews
By Steve Studley on 1/17/2023
Needs update for current feature changes. I'm on 2022.3.1 and update is near for 2023.1 He is on 2018.3
By Piotr Sadłowski on 2/23/2021
The course explains quite accurately all the features of IntelliJ IDEA. I can learn all the necessary features and use the full potential of the IDE.
By Patrick Smith on 11/9/2020
Course is very solid and helpful for using the IntelliJ program; instructor doesn't 'waste' his speech. Very to-the-point, though his delivery at times seems a little robotic (voice tone). I went through once quickly, at increased speed, intending to come later and pull back the speed, using the program and following along the points one at a time. A beneficial and useful course.
By Richard A Lowe on 10/14/2019
Just started, but I like it so far. At 50% found that it is very in depth on menu options so far. Would be very useful to someone who has never used an IDE before. I still found I am learning quite a bit
By Alexander Nekrasov on 10/11/2019
Half of the course is just reading menu items and UI elements, mostly without explanations what do they do. Voice is very monotone, sometimes I had a feeling that it's some text-to-speech engine, not a real human voice. Section about integrated Terminal was in fact about Windows Command Line (cmd). It wasn't even mentioned that on other platforms (Mac, Linux) it's different. Same problem with keyboard shortcuts, they were all for Windows, so sometimes it was hard to repeat some instructions on a Mac. Good side of the course is that it gives a lot of information about IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio, which can be useful.
By Barakutei Yanaouko Ah Baguanamei on 8/3/2019
Ita ( pron. E ta ) is Japanese for Amazing. I see endless possibilities with such powerful programming tools.
By Lester S Dougherty on 5/14/2019
No, not so far. There is a lot of items that a beginning IDE user knows nothing about and will not ever use or not use for a long time. At this point I think the course should be divided into language specific concentrations. For example I'm enrolled in several Python courses and am only interested in how to use the IDE for Python.
By Steven John Hill on 5/11/2019
I will update the rating when I have finished the course, but at the moment I don't understand the need for the instructor to spend time simply reading out menu options which we can all read for ourselves, as a precursor to actually using them. Surely it would have been better to explore the functionality in the context of an evolving project from the outset?
By James Clark on 5/10/2019
The course spends a lot of time directly reading the menu options. This is redundant. It's not the thoughtful course delivery that I experienced with Tim's Java Programming Masterclass. Robert's delivery is fairly monotone. This course is a slog, while the Java class is exciting while also through.
By Anthony C on 5/9/2019
I normally do no rate course this early ( It's only been the first 3 videos and already asking for a rating.) But the first video was great, and gave a good overview of the course. However, the next two, seemed a bit redundant. I could be wrong, but I believe students generally research courses before purchasing, and that being the case here, at least for me, you don't need 3 videos talking up the wonderfulness of IntelliJ. I get it. It's a great IDE. Now please let's get to downloading, learning, and using it.
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