Android App Development

Much better one, and you only need to pay if you want credits: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/android-app-development

Link to an Android development course on Coursera https://www.coursera.org/specializations/android-app-development

Enrollment starts today i.e. 26th October.

Can you recommend a good course which will teach me all of this, and not take up months and months of my time?

I have the following Pluralsight courses: https://imgur.com/a/Gj2Mm7k

It's either that or...

Enrolling in this 5 course Specialization:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/android-app-development

What do you suggest?

Deciding between the two online courses

Hey guys, I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question.

I am trying to decide which online course I should commit to.

I have never learned android development, I am trying to get into this area because I want to know how to create android apps. And I am trying to learn it free by the way.

So, here are the two courses:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/android-app-development#courses (coursera)

https://www.udemy.com/course/become-an-android-developer-from-scratch/ (udemy)

Is there anyone here who has done one of the above? If so, how did you find it and did you feel like it prepared you to make android apps.

Does anyone here have a free online course(other than the ones I listed above) they recommend for someone like me who wants to learn android development?

Sorry if this is not the right community to post such a question, I will delete it if it isn't.

Thanks for your time guys.

Are 2+ years old Android Development courses worth it?

I'm still a beginner in Android Development, and I've been learning through Tim Buchalka's Android Java Masterclass. I like it because it looks so in-depth and is constantly being updated, which makes it ever relevant. But some other renomned educational sites which also offer Android Dev courses (like Coursera or Pluralsight) don't seem to update nearly as often. The latest courses on Pluralsight's Android learning path is 2 years old already, and I don't even know when was the last time Vanderbilt University updated their specialization (if ever!).

Obviously they still can give some valuable lessons, but Android development changes so quickly, with every new system version bringing so many new things and Google constantly coming up with changes, that it gets hard for a newcomer to find out what should be considered and what shouldn't.

Should I just stick to Tim Buchalka's course (which is updated often enough to feature changes in Android Studio 3, for instance), or can I reliably use these courses as auxiliary study material even though they're old?

Follow-up question: where can I find some project ideas for practice?

I did this coursera course many years ago and it had many fundamentals that are still valid : https://www.coursera.org/specializations/android-app-development

I hope its details are still accurate but by judging they mention Java instead of kotlin I'm not sure.

You can also have a look at the official google codelabs which are a very good hands on starting point on specific topics https://codelabs.developers.google.com/

There's many obsolete information out there because the good practices changed a lot during the years. It would be valuable to get familiar with what jetpack has to offer since whatever is there is a substitute for something that in most cases became obsolete. This may be a good start https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc9mxIBd0DRw9gwXuQshgmn2

If stuck or lost google for either stack overflow or a medium article about it.

My last pet project is aimed towards new Android devs, it aims at making a collection of links and short descriptions of mainstream libraries, but it's not live yet.

Besplatno:

https://www.udemy.com/learn-android-application-development-y/

Plaćeno:

https://www.lynda.com/Android-training-tutorials/947-0.html

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/android-app-development