Skip to main content

Learn Android Programming – Complete Tutorial For Beginners To Pro

Android is the most popular open source operating system for mobile devices like Smartphone and Tablet. This OS is based on Linux kernel which is currently developed by Google. At Google I/O 2014, it was revealed that more than one billion per month people actively uses Android. As of July 2015, Statista revealed Google play is the largest mobile App store which has over 1.6 million Apps and billions of application gets downloaded every year. This data simply show you are in the right field which will continue to grow for at least next 5 year. So just don’t waste your time and start learning Android programming which can easily get you a lot of money.

Prerequisite For Android Programming:

Before you begin Android programming below are the prerequisite needed:
JAVA:
Android programming is mostly done in JAVA language. So before you begin Android programming you must be comfortable with JAVA and OOPS concepts. If you are new to Android we recommend you to check out our JAVA for Android section where we have shared in-depth tutorial on JAVA.
XML:
Once you are done with JAVA the next thing you need is basic knowledge of XML for designing UI of Android App. Even though Android Studio has drag and drop for designing UI but still you will need to learn XML if you want your UI is highly user interactive. You can check out Design Android UI section to learn it.
Android Studio And SDK:
Lastly you will need Android Studio and SDK for creating Android Apps. They both are available for free download.

Android Programming Tutorials:

Below are the list of Android programming topics. Follow the link to read full tutorial:

Android Material Design Topics
Topics (Follow the link to read tutorial)Description
Activity LifecycleLearn about Android Activity lifecycle like created, started, resumed, paused, stopped or destroyed.
IntentLearn how Intent is used for communicating between the components of an Application and from one app to another
Shared PreferenceLearn how primitive data is saved on Android device based on key-value pair
JSON ParsingJSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is structured, light weight, human readable and easy to parse. It’s a best alternative to XML when our android app needs to interchange data from server.
Toast & Custom ToastIn Android, Toast is used to display information for a period of time. It contains a message to be displayed quickly and disappears after specified period of time.
Internal StorageIn this tutorial we are going to learn about internal storage of data/files in Android App using example or you can say the primary memory of your phone.
External StorageIn this tutorial we gonna study about storage of data/files in android external storage or you can say the secondary memory/SD card of your phone.
SqliteSQLite is a Structure query base database, open source, light weight, no network access and standalone database. Android has built in SQLite database implementation.
AsyncTaskIn Android, AsyncTask (Asynchronous Task) allows us to run the instruction in the background and then synchronize again with our main thread.
Splash ScreenSplash Screen is most commonly the first startup screen which appears when App is opened.
VolleyVolley is a HTTP library developed by Google and was first introduced during Google I/O 2013. This library is used to transmit data over the network.
RetrofitRetrofit is a simple network library that used for network transactions. By using this library we can seamlessly capture JSON response from web service/web API.
Google MapsAndroid allows us to integrate Google Maps in our application. For this Google provides us a library via Google Play Services for using maps.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Android Bar Chart Using MpAndroidChart Library Tutorial

https://www.numetriclabz.com/android-bar-chart-using-mpandroidchart-library-tutorial/ Android Bar Chart Using MpAndroidChart Library Tutorial Objective In this tutorial we learn how to implement Bar Chart using MpAndroidChart Library in your Android App. Download Source Code       Step 1 Contents ·        1  Introduction ·        2  Creating Bar chart o    2.1  Create a new Project o    2.2  Adding library in Project o    2.3  Create Layout o    2.4  To Plot Bar Chart §   2.4.1  Initialize the graph id §   2.4.2  Creating a Dataset §   2.4.3  Defining X-axis labels §   2.4.4  Set the data §   2.4.5  Add the description to the chart §   2.4.6  Run your App § ...
2 comments
Read more

how to retrieve image from sqlite database in android and display in listview

 Android platform provides several ways to store data in our application. 1. SQLite database 2. SharedPreferences etc For our post, we will only work with SQLite database. First and foremost, we need to understand what an SQLite database is? SQLite database  is an open source SQL database that stores data to a text file on a device. It executes SQL Commands to perform a set of functions, that is, create, read, update and delete operations. On my previous post, I showed how to  store data in SQLite database from edit text, retrieve and populate it in a listview . For this post, I will show the SQLite CRUD operations with images from gallery and text from EditText. We need to understand this; images are stored in SQLite database as BLOB data type. A BLOB is a large binary object that can hold a variable amount of data.  Note, we can only store images in the database as BLOB data type. We need to convert our image path to a bitmap th...
1 comment
Read more

Circular Button with Icon and Text in Android

Circular Button with Icon and Text in Android Rounded android button can be used for many purposes to make awesome application. We can see many applications that have used circle button or rounded corner. In this tutorial, I am going to show how to make circular android button and to add icons/images and text in the same button. To make circular button in android app, you don’t need any java code, this can be done by using only XML. Rounded button can also be created by using java code but it is time consuming and need to have advance knowledge of java programming. Here you will learn to make circular/rounded corner button using XML only. Related: Android Button with Icon and Text Adding Badge (Item Count) to Android Button Android Switch Button Example Android Example: How to Create Circular Button with Icon and Text in Android First you have to create a new XML file in drawable folder to make rounded button. In this file I have made a rectangle and gave border radius to ma...
Post a Comment
Read more