Udacity Android course. Recap
How’s it going?
I was going to write this post last two months, but today is the day I have time and intention to write this post.
About two months ago, when I was on my winter holidays, I passed a course on Udacity, called Developing Android Apps built by Google. The couse level is intermediate, and time needed to pass is ten weeks, assuming 6 hours per week. But I finished it in about 10 days.
Here in this post, I want to conclude what I have done and learned throughout this course. Actually, I was writing what I have learned in each big commit, in my GitHub repo for this course.
By the end of the course, we had a built application called Sunshine, that uses Android’s best practices.
Why to choose Sunshine? Because it has all functionality that more advanced application has, and we can see in practice many APIs, where and how they are used.
So, what I have learned new for me:
- Implementing Settings(Preferences) Activity without imlpementing any UI
- Using Fragments in two pane mode
- The most important thing I learned, Android Best Practice for Database Implementation(Using Contract-DbHelper- Provider scheme)
- And the second most important thing - Using Services
- Also some small tricky things I did not know…
The more about each my learning you can learn here, by reading each commit message and browsing repo.